cypress-image-snapshot vs cypress-visual-regression

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cypress-image-snapshot		cypress-visual-regression
	Project
2	Mentions	2
874	Stars	614
-	Growth	1.0%
0.0	Activity	8.5
over 1 year ago	Latest Commit	4 days ago
JavaScript	Language	TypeScript
MIT License	License	MIT License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

cypress-image-snapshot

Posts with mentions or reviews of cypress-image-snapshot. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-12-07.

Understanding and implementing Cypress snapshot testing
7 projects | dev.to | 7 Dec 2021

The cypress-image-snapshot module introduces the matchImageSnapshot() Cypress command which can take a screenshot of the entire screen or of the chained element.
DynamoDB GUI with Electron, React & Typescript
5 projects | dev.to | 11 Apr 2021

Cypress Image Snapshot

cypress-visual-regression

Posts with mentions or reviews of cypress-visual-regression. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-14.

Show HN: Instantly create a GitHub repository to take screenshots of a web page
11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Mar 2022

https://github.com/mojoaxel/awesome-regression-testing#tools...
"visual-regression": https://github.com/topics/visual-regression
Cypress.io can run in a CI job, does Time Travel, works with DevTools debugger, can take screenshots and video, and it looks like there's a visual regression testing thing for it: https://github.com/mjhea0/cypress-visual-regression
Understanding and implementing Cypress snapshot testing
7 projects | dev.to | 7 Dec 2021

The cypress-visual-regression module adds the compareSnapshot() Cypress command which takes a screenshot of the full screen or of a single HTML element.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing cypress-image-snapshot and cypress-visual-regression you can also consider the following projects:

BackstopJS - Catch CSS curve balls.

cypress-image-diff - Visual regression test with cypress

percy-cypress - Visual testing with Cypress and Percy

pixelmatch - The smallest, simplest and fastest JavaScript pixel-level image comparison library

cypress-plugin-snapshots - Plugin for snapshot tests in Cypress.io

argos - Visual Testing for modern web apps. Review visual changes in your development workflow.

needle - Automated tests for your CSS.

image-diff - CLI tool for comparing images

cypress-localstorage-commands - Extends Cypress' cy commands with localStorage methods. Allows preserving localStorage between tests and spec files. Allows disabling localStorage.

cypress-react-app-actions - Access the internals of React components from Cypress end-to-end tests