Open Source Visual Regression Testing Tools

nut.js gives you full control over your mouse. Move, click or drag your cursor where you need it! Press (and hold) single keys or type pages of text, nut.js handles both! It allows for native UI interactions via keyboard and/or mouse but additionally gives you the possibility to navigate the screen based on image matching. nut.js gives you access to your system clipboard. Copy and paste text as you go! Retrieve info about open windows to improve your tests or workflows. nut.js provides plug-ins to perform on-screen image search, the key component for visual testing or image-based automation! nut.js works on all major operating systems. Windows, macOS and Linux! An improved image matching plugin that supports Apple Silicon chips, works across all current and future node/Electron versions and provides multi-image matching.

There are a few visual regression tools for the web, but most either cannot be run headless or use phantomjs which is deprecated and a browser nobody is actually using. They usually also require you to maintain fixtures. With react-native it's now possible to target multiple platforms with a single code base, but there's no single tool to test all to my knowledge. Loki aims to have easy setup, no to low maintenance cost, reproducible tests independent of which OS they are run on, runnable on CI, and support all platforms storybook does.

A library for isolated developing UI components and automatically taking snapshots of them. Playbook is a library that provides a sandbox for building UI components without having to worry about application-specific dependencies, strongly inspired by Storybook for JavaScript in web-frontend development. Components built by using Playbook can generate a standalone app as living style guide. This allows you to not only review UI quickly but also deliver more robust designs by separating business logics out of components. Besides, snapshots of each component can be automatically generated by unit tests, and visual regression testing can be performed using arbitrary third-party tools. For complex modern app development, it’s important to catch UI changes more sensitively and keep improving them faster. With the Playbook, you don't have to struggle through preparing the data and spend human resources for manual testings.