Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Andrew C Seres

Patrick Joseph Derks

Jidesh Veeramachaneni

Gregory Allen Keyser

A system and method for detecting differences in images and identifying groups of images with similar differences detected is provided. To this end, an image comparator may be operably coupled to a pixel comparator for comparing pixels of the baseline image with corresponding pixels of one or more sample images to detect differences between the pixels compared. A derivative difference processor may be also provided which may be operably coupled to the pixel comparator for determining a difference region of pixels detected as different by the pixel comparator in the sample images. An image sorter may also be provided which may be operably coupled to the difference derivative processor for grouping together sample images that have a similar difference region determined by the derivative difference processor.

System and method for detecting similar differences in images

A method and system for automatically determining the differences in a mobile device user interface throughout a development cycle. A test automation is run to exercise a target device's user interface. While the user interface is exercised, an extension is activated that takes snapshots of the user interface output at selected intervals of an automation execution. The snapshots are stored and uploaded to a server where snapshots of different automation executions are then compared on a pixel-by-pixel basis. The differences between snapshots are output in a visual format where the pixels that are different between snapshots are highlighted. The visual format of the differences between snapshots provides the user with a method to readily determine if errors exist in the user interface of the target device.

Method and system for automatically determining differences in a user interface throughout a development cycle

A system and method for masking dynamic regions of a user interface that assist in testing of the static user interface layout. The masking regions are used to eliminate the regions of the user interface layout that are expected to change during a verification process. The present invention allows a user to add masks to the dynamic areas of a screen for selectively ignoring those areas during testing.

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