# I'm a dev who built a no-code visual regression testing tool — looking for honest QA feedback

**URL:** <https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/im-a-dev-who-built-a-no-code-visual-regression-testing-tool-looking-for-honest-qa-feedback/87235>\
**Category:** Discussions\
**Tags:** tools, automation, regression-testing\
**Created:** [30 March 2026 11:12 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/im-a-dev-who-built-a-no-code-visual-regression-testing-tool-looking-for-honest-qa-feedback/87235 "2026-03-30T11:12:12Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![TheMalloum](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/themalloum/32/15616_2.png) [@TheMalloum](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/TheMalloum)\
**Post date:** [30 March 2026 11:12 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/im-a-dev-who-built-a-no-code-visual-regression-testing-tool-looking-for-honest-qa-feedback/87235/1 "2026-03-30T11:12:12Z")

</div>

Hi everyone,

I’m a developer. I don’t usually post in QA communities, so apologies if I’m not in the right place — but I think what I built might be relevant to some of you.

For years, I’ve been struggling with visual regression testing on my projects. I tried Selenium-based approaches, but I was spending more time writing and maintaining tests than actually building  
features. At some point, we even tried having someone on the team do manual visual checks — but when testing isn’t your job, it’s a thankless task and regressions still slip through.

Every solution I found was built for developers. And it hit me: the person who actually knows what should or shouldn’t change visually is usually the QA professional, not the dev.

So I built my own tool. The idea is simple:

- You record your scenarios — no code, no scripts to maintain
- It captures and historizes every version — you can see how your pages evolve over time and compare any version with another
- It detects visual regressions automatically — pixel-by-pixel comparison
- You decide what’s a real change and what’s not — the tool doesn’t make the call, you do

I showed it to a QA Engineer I work with. His reaction was: “This is a tool for me.” That one sentence changed how I saw the project.

It’s called Delta-QA and it’s a first version — rough around the edges, I know. I built it for myself and I’ll keep using it regardless. But if it can help QA professionals, that’s even better. I’m  
also considering open-sourcing it if there’s enough interest.

I’d genuinely love your feedback:

- Is visual regression testing a real pain point in your workflow?
- Does this approach make sense to you?
- What would you need to actually use something like this?

Here’s the site if you want to take a look: [http://delta-qa.com/](http://delta-qa.com/)

Thanks for your time — and be honest, that’s what I need.

Malloum

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![discourse\_ai\_spam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c68b51/32.png) [@discourse\_ai\_spam](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/discourse_ai_spam)\
**Post date:** [30 March 2026 11:12 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/im-a-dev-who-built-a-no-code-visual-regression-testing-tool-looking-for-honest-qa-feedback/87235/2 "2026-03-30T11:12:14Z")

</div>



---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![system](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/system/32/14378_2.png) [@system](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [30 March 2026 16:45 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/im-a-dev-who-built-a-no-code-visual-regression-testing-tool-looking-for-honest-qa-feedback/87235/3 "2026-03-30T16:45:42Z")

</div>



---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![cassandrahl](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/cassandrahl/32/15220_2.png) [@cassandrahl](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/cassandrahl)\
**Post date:** [2 April 2026 06:34 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/im-a-dev-who-built-a-no-code-visual-regression-testing-tool-looking-for-honest-qa-feedback/87235/4 "2026-04-02T06:34:09Z")

</div>

Hey, welcome to the community. It’s good to have you hear, and definitely a good space to ask for this kind of feedback - I’m glad you found us.

- Is visual regression testing a real pain point in your workflow?

- Does this approach make sense to you?

- What would you need to actually use something like this?

Best of luck!

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![TheMalloum](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/themalloum/32/15616_2.png) [@TheMalloum](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/TheMalloum)\
**Post date:** [3 April 2026 05:30 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/im-a-dev-who-built-a-no-code-visual-regression-testing-tool-looking-for-honest-qa-feedback/87235/5 "2026-04-03T05:30:29Z")

</div>

Thanks for your message Cassandra!

Delta-QA is designed to be completely free and runs locally on desktop, so everything stays on your machine — no external hosting, no data leaving your environment.

If you want to get a quick feel for the visual comparison approach, I’ve put a simple tool online ( Delta-QA website ) that lets you compare two HTML pages side by side.

Would be really interested to hear your thoughts after trying it.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![canofcam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/848f3c/32.png) [@canofcam](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/canofcam)\
**Post date:** [27 April 2026 14:35 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/im-a-dev-who-built-a-no-code-visual-regression-testing-tool-looking-for-honest-qa-feedback/87235/6 "2026-04-27T14:35:27Z")

</div>

There are significant scrolling bugs on your website. The overlapping scrolling front page looks slick but depending on where your mouse cursor is on the page, can result in being unable to scroll down at times (to reproduce, try scrolling up a few slides, then try scrolling down.)

More egregious, if you scroll all the way to the bottom (footer in view) after a brief delay the page will auto scroll up slightly taking the footer out of view again.

These problems on a website advertising a product which is supposed to be a QA solution would turn off a lot of potential users. It’s the first thing they will see of your product – how can it help them if it hasn’t helped itself?

I haven’t tried the software itself. I might give it a go on my personal machine which I don’t have access to currently.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![TheMalloum](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/themalloum/32/15616_2.png) [@TheMalloum](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/TheMalloum)\
**Post date:** [12 May 2026 07:47 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/im-a-dev-who-built-a-no-code-visual-regression-testing-tool-looking-for-honest-qa-feedback/87235/7 "2026-05-12T07:47:51Z")

</div>

Hello,

Thank you very much for the detailed feedback. We’ve taken these remarks into account internally.

We realized that the scrolling experience was not really suitable on desktop with a mouse, especially because the behavior differs a lot between a trackpad and a traditional mouse wheel. The effect could feel smooth in some situations, but also created frustrating behaviors like the ones you described.

As a result, we decided to significantly simplify the website in favor of something more stable.

You are absolutely right that these kinds of details matter even more for a QA-oriented product — the credibility of the product also comes from the experience of the website itself.

Thanks again for taking the time to share this feedback. We’re now looking forward to hearing your thoughts on the application itself once you get a chance to try it.
