Now you too can generate screenshots from your own computer, and (hopefully) have them look mostly the same as the current ones! Make sure you have docker installed and running. If all you want is (re)create all the snapshots for all the browsers, then you can do so by:
yarn test:screenshots:update
It will fetch all required selenium docker images, and use them to take screenshots.
If you are creating screenshots on a regular basis, you can keep the
docker containers with the selenium setups running. Essentially you
are encouraged to reproduce the steps from screenshotter.sh
manually. Example run for Firefox:
container=$(docker run -d -P selenium/standalone-firefox:2.46.0)
node dockers/screenshotter/screenshotter.js -b firefox -c ${container}
# possibly repeat the above command as often as you need, then eventually
docker stop ${container}
docker rm ${container}
For Chrome, simply replace both occurrences of firefox
with chrome
.
It is possible to run screenshotter.js
without the use of Docker:
yarn add selenium-webdriver
node dockers/screenshotter/screenshotter.js
This will generate screenshots using the Firefox installed on your system.
Browsers other than Firefox can be targeted using the --browser
option.
For a complete list of options pass --help
as an argument to
screenshotter.js
. Using these it should be possible to have the script
connect to almost any Selenium web driver you might have access to.
Note that screenshots taken without Docker are very likely to disagree from the ones stored in the repository, due to different versions of various software components being used. The screenshots taken in this fashion are well suited for visual inspection, but for exact binary comparisons it would be neccessary to carefully set up the environment to match the one used by the Docker approach.
Screenshots can also be verified and generated by opening a pull request.
Diffs and generated screenshots are available at the Artifacts
section
of CircleCI builds.
Both screenshotter.js
and screenshotter.sh
will accept
an --include
option (short -i
) which can be used to specify
a list of test cases to be processed, as a comma separated list.
Conversely, the --exclude
option (short -x
) can be used
to specify a list of cases which are not being processed.
Examples:
node dockers/screenshotter/screenshotter.js -i Sqrt,SqrtRoot
dockers/screenshotter/screenshotter.sh --exclude=GreekLetters
You can verify screenshots by running:
yarn test:screenshots
or passing --verify
option to screenshotter.js
or screenshotter.sh
.
See above for more details.