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Applitools
Company blog · applitools.com/blogprogrammingweb
Applitools is the company blog at applitools.com, writing about programming and web. Since 2015, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “Awesome Visual Regression Testing Tool”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-20, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (8) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters mention Applitools as a visual regression testing tool for Selenium and CI pipelines. The comments praise or compare the product, not the writing, and the site is a product homepage.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 8 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Applitools is an AI-powered end-to-end testing platform that combines our proven Visual AI with the latest GenAI and no-code approaches to maximize your test coverage while automating maintenance and reducing false positives.
Most-linked posts?
- Awesome Visual Regression Testing Tool6 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2015-05-31
What Hacker News says?
- On · 2015-05-31
My favorite in this space is Applitools eyes ( https://applitools.com/ ). Eyes has really advances image processing capabilities, which meant two huge advantages over everything else I looked at: 1. It's not prone to rendering differences. I can set a baseline in one browser/OS combo, run it on other combinations and set it to only consider real regressions as a failure. 2. It can validate the layout of the page eve…
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on “Show HN: Percy.io, a continuous visual integration tool” Submitted New Selenium IDE as a story · 2 points
HN discussionNice work! We have a similar feature built into Ghost Inspector: https://ghostinspector.com/#visual-regressions -- It includes a tolerance setting so you can basically say "I only want to hear about it if the screenshot changes by xx% or more." Effective visual regression testing at scale is tough though and is really more of a secondary feature for us. If anyone is interested in other solutions, ImageMagick has a n…
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on “Show HN: Diff.io”Submitted Awesome Visual Regression Testing Tool as a story · 2 points
HN discussionVery nice! Your CMS integration looks like a fantastic way to mitigate the onboarding pain of most integration testing systems. Definitely a useful type of test to have and certainly comes from a place of pain. Last year I worked on a bootleg similar project during the YC Hacks event—it was hard to get it to work right. Recently Applitools Eyes[0] started gaining popularity for CI-based visual testing, I hooked it u…
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on “Show HN: Diff.io”Submitted Show HN: 1-click visual testing with browser extension [no test code required] as a story · 2 points
HN discussionFull disclosure - I'm part of Applitools' core team. Since the service we provide is visual testing, we work with a lot of web development teams and automation teams. I've encountered different levels of unit tests and e2e tests and I can't say there's a single methodology to "rule them all". Some test only specific pages, some browse the entire website, some load specific components to a separate page for unit test…
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on “Ask HN: Front-end “design patterns”?”Submitted Playing with Playwright – Java API as a story · 1 points
HN discussionNice rundown, wish I had read this a year ago! > One developer designed a way to take a screenshot of our main drawing canvas and store it in Amazon’s S3 service. This was then integrated with a screenshot comparison tool to do image comparison tests. I would also take a look at Applitools https://applitools.com/ — they have Selenium webdriver-compatible libraries that do this screenshot taking/upload and offer a ni…
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on “How to make Selenium tests reliable, scalable, and maintainable”Submitted Root Cause Analysis to find front end bugs as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIf you need workflows, there's also VisualReview [1] with some basic workflow for approval testing, and Applitools [2], a commercial tool with integration with Selenium, Appium and Protractor that can do screenshot and video comparisons. I wrote about them as part of the 'Automated testing: back to the future' tools review [3]. In the article, I also mentioned DomReactor, but that seems to be discontinued now. [1] h…
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on “Image-diff – Create an image differential between two images”Have you looked at Applitools for visual testing? http://applitools.com/
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on “Selenium IDE alternatives for UI regression testing”Did you look at Applitools? https://applitools.com/ Their system has a way to demarcate volatile sections.
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on “Show HN: Lost Pixel – open-source visual regression testing for your frontend”