1. Antenna House Regression Testing System

2. Questions How many of you currently regression test your documents?
What does regression test mean to you?
How do you do it?
How often are your regression testing?
What are you looking for when you regression test?

3. Do you suffer from change anxiety?
Do changes to your current system make you highly nervous?
Are you sure content is not disappearing from your document?
Are your sure mysterious items are not showing up in your documents?
Is the look and feel of your documents changing unexpectedly?
Do subtle changes can go undetected?
Does acceptance require resource intensive tests?
Are there long delay before adoption of a newer, more powerful or better version of the formatting rendering software?

4. What is Antenna House Regression Testing System?
An automated system for comparing versions of rendering software or rendered output
Precision pixel-by-pixel comparison of output documents
Visual comparison
Scalable & fast regression testing
Can be used to regression test new releases of Formatter
Can be used to test stylesheet changes
Can be used to test any documents that are based on visual output
Initially developed for Antenna House's own internal use
Many customers have requested that we offer it as a product

5. Traditional Visual Regression Testing:
Time consuming;
Costly;
Resource intensive;
Manual;
Unreliable;
Unloved;
Unwanted;
Feared;
Hated;
Procrastinated;
Not done enough;
Necessary!

6. Report Formats Multi-Document Report Individual Document Report
Visual Report

7. Multi-Document Report

8. Individual Document Report

9. Visual Report
Original Page
Composite Page
New Page

10. Features Supports regression testing collections of documents
PDF 2 PDF (one document or many documents)
Formatter V(X) to V(X)
Linux and Windows
JAVA GUI
Command line API
Supports distributed regression testing across multiple processors for quicker processing
Highlight radius for easier visual inspection
Margin exclusions

11. Benefits Automates regression testing 90%+ reduction in human effort
Greatly speeds the process
Significantly more accurate
Able to catch much more subtle differences
Able to test more often
Reliable- has been a working solution for over 2 years

12. Licenses

13. Questions?