visual-diff-plugin

A Jenkins plug-in to manage differences in screenshots

Screenshots that are taken during a build are compared with previously approved images and possibly trigger build status changes. The screenshots can be compared with each other through a comparison page which highlights differences.

Differences chart:

Screenshot comparison reports:

Highlights to show differences:

Work in Progress

The current plugin is a WIP and will be in a working state shortly. For the time being, you can use the visual-diff.hpi in the root for testing purposes, but please be aware that this is not a production version and that the configuration will change. The configuration will not be backwards compatible!

External tools needed

The current version still needs the perceptualdiff bin to do the differences. In a future version, this may be replaced with a native java version. Install the perceptualdiff package with:

yum install perceptualdiff

Add the path of the binary to the system configuration for the visual-diff plugin, and the plugin should be ready to run.