Applitools Delivers Cypress and Storybook SDKs to Provide Developers with Ultra-Fast Visual Validation of Their Web Applications and Components

Automated Visual Testing at the Speed of Unit Testing

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Oct 16, 2018, 10:33 ET

SAN MATEO, Calif., Oct. 16, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Applitools (applitools.com), the leader in Application Visual Management (AVM), today announced expansion of their AI powered visual testing platform to Cypress and Storybook; two popular tools with software developers seeking to build high quality applications faster.

These new Applitools Automated Visual Testing SDKs are engineered to run visual tests instantly as developers write code, enabling them to identify visual bugs as soon as they are introduced. The result is more productive engineering teams, delivering higher-quality apps faster than ever before.

"I love how Applitools Eyes has the smarts to ignore minor visual differences in your components, especially when testing on different browser types where it's easy for layout to be off by a pixel," said Kent C. Dodds, JavaScript engineer at PayPal and the creator of TestingJavaScript.com. "I also think is awesome how quickly I can get confidence that my application works across these browsers without actually having to run all my tests in every one of them."

To get started with Applitools' new SDKs, sign up for a free Applitools Eyes account at (https://applitools.com/cypress) or (https://applitools.com/storybook).

"Finding and fixing bugs at the application development stage is significantly cheaper and easier than finding and fixing those bugs during QA, or worse, in production," said Gil Sever, CEO of Applitools. "This dynamic is what's driving the industry trend of 'Shift Left' and embedding testing earlier in the development lifecycle. Increasing release velocity, while maintaining software quality is a huge challenge for R&D teams. By expanding our AI powered visual testing platform to Cypress and Storybook, we provide frontend developers and test automation engineers the tools to do visual testing at the development stage, at the ultra-fast speeds needed to maintain agile and CI-CD development."

"Our software engineers love the simple configuration, fast performance, and both full page and component-level visual regression testing that Applitools now provides," said David Corbett, engineering lead at PushPay. "Visual testing is now a vital part of our development routine helping drive faster release cycles with higher quality."

Applitools Cypress Ultra-Fast SDK empowers developers with an almost instant interactive experience allowing them to see a code's impact on the UI by headlessly running screenshots in parallel. Also, for the first time, you can use Cypress for visual testing on Firefox, mobile browsers, and Google Chrome.

"Applitools Eyes integrates seamlessly with Cypress and has everything I need for cross-browser visual testing coverage by circumventing the Google Chrome-only restriction built into Cypress," said Omri Aharon, frontend team leader at Autodesk.

Applitools Storybook SDK visually tests UI web components in parallel, without writing any test code on React, Angular or Vue, enabling ultra-fast codeless validation of massive component libraries in seconds.

"Storybook allows you to visualize your components and all their states, and Applitools allows you to do smart visual-regression testing. Using these tools together provides change detection, which will certainly be of immense value to organizations and individual developers," said Norbert de Langen, senior front-end consultant at Xebia and maintainer of Storybook.

Join us for a live webinar with frontend developer Gil Tayar entitled "Visual Validation at the Speed of Unit Testing with Cypress and Storybook" at https://goo.gl/vvZdTG

Applitools' AI powered Application Visual Testing (AVT) technology gives frontend developers, QA analysts, test automation engineers and digital transformation executives the ability to automate the visual testing of web and mobile apps on multiple browsers, devices and screen sizes. By accelerating the testing cycle, companies can improve test coverage and increase the detection of visual bugs dramatically.

Applitools' Visual AI engine mimics the human eye and brain to avoid undetected bugs and simultaneously minimize false positive bug alerts. The technology can instantly validate entire app pages and their components, and detect layout issues on the most complex and dynamic pages. When development teams are confident that web and mobile applications are rendering properly across all browsers, devices and screen sizes, they are unleashed to push more code more quickly, and with much better quality than ever before.

About Applitools
Applitools is the creator of Application Visual Management (AVM) to help companies release, test and monitor flawless mobile, web, and native apps in a fully automated way. Founded in 2013, Applitools uses sophisticated AI powered image processing technology to ensure that an application appears correctly and functions properly on all mobile devices, browsers, operating systems, and screen sizes. Applitools has customers from a range of verticals, including Fortune 100 companies in software, banking, online retail, insurance, and pharmaceuticals. Applitools is headquartered in San Mateo, California, with an R&D center in Tel Aviv, Israel. For more information, please visit applitools.com.

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