visual-testing-with-percy

example: visual-testing

Uses @percy/cypress to run visual tests for a demo of Material UI date pickers from https://material-ui.com/components/pickers/. Every pull request shows the visual diff (if any) and allows us to confirm that styles and layouts have not changed.

Usage

1. Make sure the root project has been built .

# in the root of the project
npm install
npm run build

2. Run npm install in this folder to symlink the cypress-react-unit-test dependency.

# in this folder
npm install

3. Start Cypress

npm run cy:open
# or just run headless tests
npm test

Notes

The project was set up using Percy documentation (see support and plugins files). The example spec src/DatePicker.cy-spec.js runs cy.percySnapshot after confirming the DOM has updated.

mount(<MaterialUIPickers />)
// confirm the DOM has rendered the widget
cy.get('#date-picker-inline').should('have.value', '08/18/2014')
// then take visual snapshot
cy.percySnapshot('Datepicker initial')

cy.get('button[aria-label="change date"]').click()
// confirm the DOM has rendered the widget
cy.get('.MuiPickersBasePicker-container').should('be.visible')
// then take visual snapshot
cy.percySnapshot('Datepicker opened')

New screenshot

Visual change

If a pull request introduces visual changes, they are caught and shown as a diff

Tip: you can use any visual testing plugin with component testing.