Do we have a folder for baseline images where the images are not changed every run?

[faith-berroya]

The plugin seems to compare the images from previous run instead of a baseline image. Do we have a setting for which image should we compare the current run? It's getting the wrong images for me as the baseline.

Do I have to run until I get all correct images with:
cy.get('element').matchImage({updateImages: true,maxDiffThreshold: 0.05,forceDeviceScaleFactor: false})

Once I have them I can remove the updateImages to have the images as fixed?
cy.get('element').matchImage({maxDiffThreshold: 0.05,forceDeviceScaleFactor: false})

Or is there an additional setting where we could save a baseline image into another folder then call and compare from the current run?

Correct:

Wrong: (What the plugin gets, and pass)

[faith-berroya]

Hi @dhulme I'm confused as to whether the screenshots are fixed in the image_snapshots folder whenever a CI runs a new job. Is it changing every new run? Or we only need 1 job run and it will remain the same for all succeeding jobs?

[FRSgit]

Hi @faith-berroya!

Thank you for using this plugin.

This is the proposed usage flow:

1. you write test suite using cy.get('element').matchImage() syntax (notice that updateImages is not used here),
2. the images get during the first test run,
3. on subsequent test runs newly taken screenshots are compared against images from step 2,
4. if you need to update images from step 2 you should cypress tests with a command npx cypress run --env "pluginVisualRegressionUpdateImages=true" (notice pluginVisualRegressionUpdateImages flag - it makes plugin update images on the hard drive).

To sum up - updateImages option (whether it is set via command configuration object or cypress env) makes plugin update images stored in your project directory and should be used only when you want to explicitly update images.

[FRSgit]

Closing the issue as it was resolved by the comment above and the discussion thread here #88