Frontend Regression Validator (FRED)

Visual regression tool used to compare baseline and updated instances of a website in a deployment pipeline. FRED is an opensource visual regression tool used to compare two instances of a website. FRED is responsible for automatic visual regression testing, with the purpose of ensuring that functionality is not broken by comparing a current(baseline) and an updated version of a website. The visual analysis computes the Normalized Mean Squared error and the Structural Similarity Index on the screenshots of the baseline and updated sites, while the visual AI looks at layout and content changes independently by applying image segmentation Machine Learning techniques to recognize high-level text and image visual structures. This reduces the impact of dynamic content yielding false positives. FRED is designed to be scalable. It has an internal queue and can process websites in parallel depending on the amount of RAM and CPUs (or GPUs) available.