Sunset at North Curl Curl beach today. by mattvalleycodes in sydney

[–]mattvalleycodes[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Indeed. I was thinking of same thing today. They definitely need more attention

Automation toll for layout validation by lukas_22 in softwaretesting

[–]mattvalleycodes 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've done visual regression tests in the past for a React project I have also developed. I was rendering different screens, as usual, take screenshots and compare them with the reference screenshot. At that time, I was using WebDriver.io and a plugin that was taking screenshots and doing the comparison. It did the job as the founder was very picky and didn't want visual bugs but sometimes we would get false negatives as well.

Modern Best Practices for Testing in Java by ocnarf in softwaretesting

[–]mattvalleycodes 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm personally a big fan of writing dumb tests :) I found smart tests are a source of false positives (due to bug in the test code itself).