Maintaining visual regression tests can be hard, but the more tests we write for our projects, the more we see the tremendous power it provides in terms of QA and monitoring our sites.

One daunting task each developer hates (and often avoids) is validating their markup on multiple browsers. All of Gizra's developers use either Mac or Ubuntu on their machines, so the line to the "IE computer" on the far end of the office is getting long. Way too long.

And honestly - after our poor developers validated their work once, if we'd ask them to do it again. And again. And again... we'd probably be left without any.

Developers moral shouldn't be underestimated!

Shoov means "Again" in Hebrew for this very reason.Go ahead and jump to our example repo which now has cross browser tests. Writing your tests once - but testing on multiple platforms and browsers is a big win.

DuckDuckGo.com tested by BrowserStack on Windows7, IE11, with 1024x780 resolution

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