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Mastering Selenium WebDriver 3.0 - Second Edition
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Mastering Selenium WebDriver 3.0 - Second Edition

by Mark Collin
June 2018
Beginner to intermediate
376 pages
8h 58m
English
Packt Publishing
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Visual validation

I've never been a strong proponent of visual validation (the practice of using code to check if something that you are looking at on screen is what should be displayed on screen). It’s something I have tried in the past and it never really seemed to live up to the hype. The idea of being able to take a screenshot of a site and then compare it to a known good copy sounds great, but the reality was always underwhelming.

In the past, I have diligently written code to take screenshots and then do a pixel-by-pixel comparison to see if they match. The problem was they very rarely did: variables such as different machines running at different resolutions came into play, slightly different rendering engines could result in color ...

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