Introducing RCA Smart to streamline Debugging Visual workflows

Visual testing has revolutionized how the development team captures visual problems, but there is one challenge that continues: knowing what’s wrong, not just where. When your visual test fails, you are often left to play detectives, sorting manually through the DOM element and CSS property to find the culprit. This is where Smart RCA enters.

Smartui Lambdatest is now introducing a new feature called Smart RCA (Root Cause Analysis), an intelligent debugging assistant who changes visual test failures into an insight that can be followed up. Instead of spending hours to investigate why your UI is damaged, RCA shows you changes in the right DOM and CSS that are responsible for visual differences.

What is Smart RCA?

Smart RCA exceeds visual differences in surface levels by giving in -depth inspection of why visual differences occur. This reveals the exact changes in DOM and CSS between your baseline and the screenshots captured in a clear, visual, and interactive format. This ensures that you can make a visual failed test with speed and self -confidence.

Main Features of RCA Smart:

• Comparison of the Right Dom & CSS: Check changes in HTML, CSS, and the right text between your baseline and the captured screenshots.
• Interactive Visual Feedback: Navigate the cursor to a different area to highlight changes and click to see detailed information.
• Comprehensive RCA Panel: Access to structured DIFF damage in several categories, including DOM paths, calculated forces, limiting boxes, attribute changes, tag transformation, text modification, and layout shift.
• Smooth integration: Work easily with the Smartui dashboard and Lambdatest Cli tools.

How does Smart RCA solve the challenges of visual testing?

Traditional visual testing suffers from what we call the problem “What versus where”:

Traditional Visual Testing:

• Shows you Where There is a difference
• Requires manual investigations to understand What changed
• Forcing the transfer of the context between the test tool and the dev environment
• Make a long debugging cycle that slows down the release

Analysis of the causes of the root of Smartui:

• Immediately revealed What causing visual differences
• Provide insights that can be followed up without leaving the platform
• Eliminate the allegations and manual debugging
• Speed up the entire debug-to-fix cycle

The following is an example of how Smart RCA provides detailed analysis of visual differences and highlighting the root causes of the problem.

Why is RCA intelligent important for development workflows?

Smart Root Cause Analysis (RCA) changes your debugging process by giving the right insight into visual regression. Here’s how to increase your workflow:

• Accelerated debugging: Determine the right code and changes in force that causes failure, cutting debugging time from the clock to minutes.
• Reducing context switching: All relevant debugging information is placed in one integrated display, removing the need to jump between the tools.
• Increased team collaboration: Share RCA reports that can be followed up with your team, directly showing changes in DOM and CSS responsible for the problem.
• Focus on what is important: RCA intelligently filter out irrelevant changes, making sure you are only told about what has an impact that affects user experience.

Conclusion

Root Analysis Causes Smartui Changing Visual Debugging from Alleged to Appropriate Insight and Can Be Followed. Instead of spending hours to investigate visual failures, RCA shows you what has changed and why.

For questions or implementation support, reach through chat in our application or send an email to support@lambdatest.com.

Happy testing!