It gives an overview on applitools. Describes about UI testing of web applications using applitools.

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[An UI Automation Tool]
Nowadays , UI has become as face of the application. Its importance has gone upto
the level where it can determine whether the user will use the application or not. But with
today's rapid development of various browsers, operating systems, devices with various
screen resolutions, it is more difficult than ever to test the application in terms of UI and
make sure that application appears fine in all of them.
Applitools has come up with a solution to make the UI testing easy and simple in all
perspectives with a cloud based service called “​Applitools Eyes​”. It captures the application
UI, compares the captured screenshots and detect the differences using a technology called
Cognitive Vision Technology.
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Workflow of Applitools Eyes
1. Captures screenshot of the application (sets as baseline for first run)
2. Compares the screenshots captured at later runs with baseline
3. Detects any differences between screencaptures and highlight them
[Marked as pass if no changes exists and as fail if exists]
4. If changes exists and accepting them makes the current screenshot as new baseline
for later runs whereas rejecting, retains previous baseline
Features:
Easy Integration
Applitools Eyes can be easily integrated with existing test automation frameworks such as
Selenium , HP UFT , Lean FT, Appium ,etc., and also with ALM frameworks such as HP
Quality Center , Visual Studio, and many more…
Applitools Eyes provides some code snippets corresponding to chosen framework with
which it is being integrated, which should be embedded into our existing scripts.
Responsive testing with cross browsers
Applitools eyes enables us to validate UI of the application over various devices of different
platforms with various screens resolutions and browsers
Ignoring Dynamic regions
Dynamic Regions are the regions where the page contents changes very frequently or
contents of the application moves over the application (like slides, animated GIFs eg:
yahoo.com)
Applitools eyes facilitates us to ignore dynamic regions of the application which does not
disturb UI validation of static contents of the application

2. One click extension
Applitools provides an extension exclusive for Google chrome with which UI of an application
can be validated with ​just one click ​of any screen resolution
Visual bug highlighting
Applitools eyes can detect any visual differences between two screen displays and highlight
them which makes easy for manual UI tester
In the below screenshot , “​One Account. All of Google.​” text is missing which is highlighted
at its exact location by comparing with baseline screencapture
Support Environments
Frameworks : HP UFT, Selenium, Protractor, Appium, Maven, Coded UI and so on
Browsers : Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer
OS : Mac, IOS, Linux, Windows
Devices : Desktops, Laptops, Ipad, Iphone
App Types : Web and Mobile applications
Advantages:
The features of Applitools eyes themselves are the advantages which also includes the
following
★ Easy identification of UI changes
★ Automation validation of UI without manual interference in cloud
★ No coding efforts needed
★ Reduce maintenance efforts
★ Increased test coverage
★ Visual self­explanatory logs
★ Support for premium users

3. Disadvantages:
★ Licensed Tool
★ Need internet connection to view results
Top Companies using Applitools Eyes:
SAP, HP, CA technologies, Unilever and many more
Report from various case studies on applitools:
★ 50% of automation code is reduced
★ 20% improvement in overall number of bugs
★ 2 months­worth of man­hours saved yearly
Applitools Eyes ­ ‘Extra set of eyes to manual tester’​ is the apt tagline with which
applitools is promoting itself into the market
References:
https://applitools.com/
http://codecondo.com/applitools­automated­visual­testing­tool­applications/
http://techblog.cld.sr/?tag=applitools
https://applitools.com/cloud­share/