Setting Match Level Sensitivity in Applitools Eyes

Match Level describes the algorithm used to compare the baseline image with the checkpoint image in Applitools Eyes. These different algorithms help drastically reduce false positives and test maintenance for QA and Dev teams. While other visual testing tools may introduce a lot of noise to a CI/CD pipeline, Match Level keeps it steady. Applitools Eyes provides the following distinct match levels:
Strict
This is the default and recommend match level.This march level verifies that the page content matches the baseline image closely enough that the human eye would not see any difference. With this level, Eyes detects changes in text, font, color, graphics, and position of elements. It aims to detect differences that are visible to the human eye while ignoring differences in pixel values that are platform dependent due to the rendering software and hardware. The Strict match level is most effective when used for regression tests on a particular browser/OS with mostly static content.
Layout
This level is useful for validating that the page layout is consistent. With this match level, Eyes identifies the various page elements in the checkpoint and baseline images, such as text, images, buttons, and columns and verifies that the relative positions of these elements are consistent. This match level can detect elements that have appeared, disappeared, or moved. With this match level, the Eyes matching engine ignores differences in the actual content text and graphics, color, and other style changes. This match level is most effective when used to validate pages with dynamic content, language localization, and cross-environment testing where a single baseline is used for multiple execution environments (different operating systems, browsers, devices, viewport sizes, and orientations).
Ignore colors
This match level is similar to the strict match level but ignores changes in colors. It is effective when your content is static but the color varies, for example if there are buttons or screen elements that can appear in a variety of colors.
Exact
This match level causes the Eyes matching engine to do a pixel to pixel comparison of the checkpoint and baseline images. It is sensitive to differences such as rendering anomalies that are not visible to the human eye. It is not recommended for ordinary verification purposes.
If you don't specify otherwise, in one of the ways described below, then the default match level is Strict.
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