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Manual Runs

Run quick single-URL checks without setting up a full suite.

What manual runs are

Manual runs are for quick checks of one URL. They skip the full crawl and page-selection flow.

Behind the scenes, a manual run is still a test suite. It has kind: MANUAL, one tracked page and no automatic recrawl schedule. That means it uses the same screenshots, baselines and review flow as a normal suite.

Create a manual run

  1. Open Manual Runs.
  2. Paste the full URL you want to test.
  3. Add a name if the default label is not clear.
  4. Create it.

viz starts the first run immediately. That first run captures the baseline.

Run it again later

Open the manual run and start another run. The new screenshot is compared with the baseline from the first run, so this is useful for checking a live page after a small change.

When to use a suite instead

Use a normal test suite when you need:

  • more than one page
  • crawl discovery
  • recurring recrawls
  • GitHub pull request checks
  • a reviewed list of tracked pages