Indeed, George, having automated comparison would be ideal. If it is available
now, show us the tools!

But even just having automated parallel execution would be a huge step forward
for someone who is currently doing manual execution. And it would be great for
people doing exploratory testing as they could execute the test once and see
right away if the other browsers behaved the same way.

Cheers,

Gerard

On 1/25/2012 6:02 PM, Ward Cunningham wrote:
> I agree. I wrote user documentation from just the screenshots collected by Swim.
> But Swim's killer feature was being able to drop into a scenario at any point
> and start operating the system like a real user.
>
> Now, if I could just do that looking at one of Chrome, Firefox or Safari and
> know that the other two don't need my attention.
>
> I say this because animated visualization will carry more of the experience in
> HTML5 and beyond.
>
> On Jan 25, 2012, at 8:16 AM, George Dinwiddie wrote:
>
>  > Personally, I wouldn't want to have to watch the tests run and hope I
>  > noticed differences between multiple screens as they flashed past. I
>  > would rather have the UI functional tests grab screenshots along the way
>  > so that I could compare the various browsers at my leisure--giving a
>  > glance to some and taking a long look at others.
>  >
>  > It would also be possible to do an automated visual comparison of
>  > screenshots to highlight differences that might otherwise be overlooked.
>
>

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