Automating this as part of the build process is very cool. As a UX designer, I once put together a rudimentary node script that used phantom.js (I think, it was a while ago) that grabbed different sized screenshots of a page I was lead designer for. It would once or twice a week. Things were always changing and people would always want to see what the site looked like before change X. Sometimes we had design artifacts, but sometimes we didn't.
It worked, but it wasn't an ideal solution for a variety of reasons.
Having a tool that can do visual regression testing but doesn't necessarily have to be part of the build pipeline would be cool for designers that might already be doing this manually because, for a great variety of reasons, these types of issues aren't being caught if they don't catch them (been there, done that, "we don't need QA!" they said...). I've seen automated screen capture services before, but having to manually check them for regressions is a pain.
If there's already something like this out there, I'd love to hear about it.
It worked, but it wasn't an ideal solution for a variety of reasons.
Having a tool that can do visual regression testing but doesn't necessarily have to be part of the build pipeline would be cool for designers that might already be doing this manually because, for a great variety of reasons, these types of issues aren't being caught if they don't catch them (been there, done that, "we don't need QA!" they said...). I've seen automated screen capture services before, but having to manually check them for regressions is a pain.
If there's already something like this out there, I'd love to hear about it.