Visual testing evaluation improvements

When using Visual testing features, Suitest evaluates the state based on screenshots. Below you can find a few improvements that can be used in order to increase the accuracy of those features.

  • HbbTV / Freeview Play
  • Roku
  • Samsung Tizen
  • Sky (Entertainment OS)
  • VIDAA - Instrumentation library
  • Vizio - Instrumentation library
  • Xfinity / Xumo TV / XClass TV
Not needed when

Screenshots are taken over the network


  • Android
  • Apple iPhone / iPad (iOS) devices and simulators
  • Apple TV (tvOS) devices and simulators
  • Browsers
  • HbbTV (on LG webOS TVs 2016+)
  • LG webOS (2016+)
  • PlayStation 4/5
  • Roku
  • Sky (Entertainment OS, Sky OS)
  • VIDAA - Ottium
  • Vizio - Ottium
  • Xbox (One, Series X/S)
  • Xumo (Entertainment OS)

Screenshots are taken through a WingBox (addition to the list above)

  • Sky Q
  • Xfinity
  • Other STBs

Prerequisites

  • Sky Q / Sky (Entertainment OS)
  • VIDAA
  • Vizio
  • Xfinity / Xumo TV / XClass TV
  • Xumo (Entertainment OS)

For the listed platforms, you will need to perform manual action before being able to use our improvements. You will need to create a simple app package with the following parameters and sideload it to your device:

VIDAA / Xfinity / Xumo TV / XClass TV app:

  • App ID = debug-calibration
  • URL = https://file.suite.st/calibration/index.html

Sky / Xumo (Entertainment OS) app:

  • App ID = debug-calibration
  • URL = https://file.suite.st/calibration/index.html

Crop & Straighten

Applicable only when using Suitest Camera app or USB camera / UVC device for Visual testing features. When Suitest takes a screenshot, with these improvements applied, Suitest will crop and straighten the screenshot in order to remove unnecessary parts and to make the screen better readable.

Crop & Straighten application

Configuring the Crop & Straighten

  1. Open Details of the testing device
  2. Go to Settings tab
  3. Next to the Image capture selection, open the context menu (3 dots) and click on Crop & Straighten item
  4. Confirm that your image capture device is configured correctly
  5. Wait for the process to end

Checking the Crop & Straighten impact

After you configured the Crop & Straighten feature, you can check that it works as expected:

  1. In the same context menu as you used to configure it, click on Preview item
  2. Check that a screenshot does not contain frame or screen surroundings and is properly straighten (rectangle shape)

Resetting the Crop & Straighten

When you replace the image capture device for you testing device with Crop & Straighten already configured, you can re-configure with the new device. Just click on Reset item inside the Image capture context menu on Details of your testing device and follow the process.