Cypress Visual Regression

Module for adding visual regression testing to Cypress.

Getting Started

Install:

$ npm install cypress-visual-regression

Add the following config to your cypress.json file:

{
  "screenshotsFolder": "cypress/snapshots/actual",
  "trashAssetsBeforeRuns": true
}

Options

failSilently is enabled by default, toggle it to see the errors
Add the following config to your cypress.json file to see the errors:

{
  "env": {
    "failSilently": false
  }
}

Add the plugin to cypress/plugins/index.js:

const getCompareSnapshotsPlugin = require('cypress-visual-regression/dist/plugin');

module.exports = (on) => {
  getCompareSnapshotsPlugin(on);
};

Add the command to cypress/support/commands.js:

const compareSnapshotCommand = require('cypress-visual-regression/dist/command');

compareSnapshotCommand();

To Use

Add cy.compareSnapshot('home'); in your tests specs whenever you want to test for visual regressions, making sure to replace home with a relevant name. You can also add an optional error threshold: Value can range from 0.00 (no difference) to 1.00 (every pixel is different). So, if you enter an error threshold of 0.51, the test would fail only if > 51% of pixels are different.

More examples:

Threshold	Fails when
.25	> 25%
.30	> 30%
.50	> 50%
.75	> 75%

Sample:

it('should display the login page correctly', () => {
  cy.visit('/03.html');
  cy.get('H1').contains('Login');
  cy.compareSnapshot('login', 0.0);
  cy.compareSnapshot('login', 0.1);
});

You can target a single HTML element as well:

cy.get('#my-header').compareSnapshot('just-header')

Looking for more examples? Review docker/cypress/integration/main.spec.js.

Take the base images:

$ ./node_modules/.bin/cypress run --env type=base --config screenshotsFolder=cypress/snapshots/base

# use comma separated format for multiple config commands
$ ./node_modules/.bin/cypress run \
  --env type=base \
  --config screenshotsFolder=cypress/snapshots/base,testFiles=\"**/*regression-tests.js\

Find regressions:

$ ./node_modules/.bin/cypress run --env type=actual

Example

TODO

Allow end user to customize options (screenshot directory)
Test functionality of taking screenshots without running visual regression
Prevent "base" tests runs from actually running the regular Cypress tests

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