Your Beauty AR Demo Is Smooth—Now Test the Session It Will Actually Run
A Beauty AR proof of concept can look perfect during a 30-second desk test and still struggle in the product you intend to ship. The tension is not simply “performance versus visual quality.” It is deciding which effects must remain available on which devices, under what sustained workload, and what the application should do when that contract cannot be met . A useful test therefore needs more…
Testing an AR Beauty application requires more than simply measuring frame rates. It demands evaluating representative combinations of effects, running tests long enough to expose sustained degradation, distinguishing setup failures from rendering pressure, and verifying that lower-cost profiles recover gracefully. The tutorial builds this test boundary in TypeScript without relying on specific Tencent RTC API names. The adapter for the SDK-specific calls is connected using the platform's documentation.
The test begins with a workload contract, not a benchmark loop. Users typically combine effects, navigate through changing scenes, and maintain sessions longer than a simple demo. Define a small matrix based on your product's actual exposure:
1. Baseline: Camera without optional effects, controlled lighting, and separates camera/render cost from effects.
2. Common path: A shipped beauty and makeup combination with normal movement.
3. Expensive path: A shipped segmentation, 3D, GAN, avatar, or background feature with movement plus background detail.
4. Sustained path: A common or expensive profile with a continuous session to detect hidden deterioration.
Only include features your application actually offers. A synthetic “everything enabled” configuration can serve as a stress case, but it should not replace representative workloads. Maintain product-owned tiers based on real-device results and keep an unknown tier that starts conservatively until you have evidence.
Create a minimal browser TypeScript project and define the policy as data. This policy should consist of a minimal list of test cases, each with an ID, tier, duration, profile, recovery profile, and acceptance budget. For example, the commonEntryDeviceCase includes a duration of 120 seconds, a profile with beauty and makeup effects, and a recovery profile with reduced beauty effects. The budget includes minimum delivery ratios, maximum P95 output gaps, long task limits, apply limits, and a recovery time limit.
Replace every number with a product decision derived from your expected experience and tested devices. Keep the policy in version control, allowing pull requests to answer concrete questions about workload, acceptance contract, or implementation regressions. Finally, put the Beauty AR integration behind a measurable boundary. Observe the application's actual output path, counting requestAnimationFrame calls only measures browser scheduling, not proving processed Beauty AR frames were produced.
An adapter in src/adapter.ts is required to connect the SDK-specific calls using the platform's documentation.
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