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orta/Snapshots

★ 364 · Objective-C · BSD-2-Clause · updated May 2017

An Xcode Plugin to show the state of FBSnapshot Tests.

An old Xcode plugin that showed FBSnapshotTest results inline in the IDE — failed snapshot diffs, new reference images, Kaleidoscope integration. Xcode killed the plugin API years ago and the README itself tells you to go use the successor project instead.

The sliding image diff view (ORSlidingImageView) for comparing reference vs actual snapshots was a genuinely good idea that the successor inherited. The log parsing approach (ORLogReader watching test output) was the right hook point given how FBSnapshotTestCase reported failures. Kaleidoscope integration for pixel-level diffing was a nice touch when that workflow mattered.

Dead. Xcode dropped the plugin API in Xcode 8 and this hasn't been touched since 2017. The README literally opens with a redirect to a different project. No Swift, no Xcode Source Editor Extension rewrite, no modern equivalent — it just stopped. The committed Pods directory means the repo ships with vendored dependencies locked to 2014-era versions of Expecta and FBSnapshotTestCase.

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