Smart Smart and Baseline Management: Changing Visual Testing Work Flow

Visual testing has evolved significantly, but one challenge remains persistent: managing the basic lines and branches in a way that is in harmony with the workflow of modern development. Today, we are happy to introduce smart branching and basic management of Smartui, a comprehensive solution that discusses this fundamental problem.

After a broad development and user feedback, we have launched features that eliminate basic confusion while making visual testing more easily accessible by the entire development team. This change represents a shift in a traditional approach that forces the team to adjust their workflow to match the tools.

Modern visual testing challenges

The Modern Development Team works with a complex branch strategy: Branch features, Branch Release, and Hot improvement branches are standard practices. However, most visual testing tools are still operating on outdated assumptions, comparing everything with the main branch regardless of the actual development context.

This mismatch creates several problems. Visual tests produce fake positives when comparing branch features work with irrelevant base lines. The development team spends time investigating changes that are not related to their current jobs. The approval process becomes an obstacle rather than a useful validation step.

Our intelligent branching and basic management approach solve this problem by making visual testing work in your existing development workflow rather than oppose it.

What’s new in Smartui?

We have introduced some of the main abilities that work together to create a smarter visual testing experience:

• The comparison of smart branches makes visual tests meaningful by comparing in the same branch, not all of them fight playing when you are working on branches of features.
• The flexible merger option allows smartui to automatically handle the combination of all branches or specific builds and make a joint version of approved automatically, eliminating manual bottlenecks.
• Dynamic Baselines allows you to set your baseline to match your release strategy, whether it is a certain branch, building names, or dynamic references, so Smartui adapts to your process.
• The visual combined studio interface provides access to this capability through an intuitive and frontend -based joint interface that requires minimal training and the “compare & combined” button that stands out with smart recommendations, visual indicators, and sleek operations

With these features, combined builds are automatically approved, and visual tests are now integrated with github actions, increasing the workflow of your tensile request. Plus, you can easily promote visual tests in various environments, from branches of features to staging and production, without missing beats.

The interface includes several improvements to user experience:

• Smart advice that automatically detects during the branch in front
• Intuitive control with clear visual branch indicators
• Status indicator shows the building ready to be combined with green signs
• Conscious Actions The context that arises at the right time
• 90% faster operations for non-technical team members

Conclusion

New features build a foundation for more sophisticated visual testing capabilities. We continue to develop an increase that integrates visual testing into modern development practices.

The smart initial branching and management approach is our commitment to make visual testing a natural part of the development workflow rather than additional burdens. When the team adopts these features, we see visual testing as a more integral and valuable part of the development process.

Happy testing!

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