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Featured Content
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Product Updates
Live | App Live | Automate | App Automate | Accessibility Testing | App Accessibility | Test Management | Test Reporting & Analytics | Percy | Low Code Automation
Live
- Easier Secure Logins with PFX Certificate Support: You can now install and use PFX certificates in Live to securely log in to your internal environments. Upload up to five certificates; once added, they’ll persist across sessions, saving you time and effort every time you test.
App Live
- Introducing Applivery: You can now use Applivery as an alternative to App Center to upload and manage your apps more seamlessly. This makes distributing and testing your apps even easier.
- Three-Finger Gesture Support on Android: You can now test more complex interactions with support for three-finger gestures on Android, giving you greater flexibility in simulating real user behaviour test.
Automate
- Simulate Location-Based Testing with Geocomply: You can now use Geocomply on Automate sessions to easily simulate location-specific test scenarios—ideal for apps with geo-restrictions or region-based features.
App Automate
- Test with Maestro on Real Devices: You can now run your tests using the Maestro framework on real Android and iOS devices, giving you more flexibility and control over your mobile testing strategy.
- Download Files Easily via REST APIs: You can now download files directly from real devices using REST APIs on Espresso, helping you capture logs and artefacts more efficiently, while also unlocking revenue opportunities.
- Manage Apps Seamlessly on App Automate: You can now experience a dedicated UI for App Management on App Automate. If you're a GRR user, you can also upload apps through the v2 dashboard, making app updates and versioning easier than ever.
Accessibility Testing
- Easier Issue Detection with Screenshots: You can now capture and view issue screenshots, making it simpler to detect bugs and speed up debugging.
- Run Accessibility Automation on Your Own Infrastructure: You can now run automated accessibility tests on non-BrowserStack infrastructure, giving you more flexibility and compatibility across different setups.
App Accessibility
- Customise Your Accessibility Scans: You can now exclude specific accessibility rules before a scan begins. This gives you more control and flexibility to focus on the rules that matter most to your use case.
- Expanded Framework Support: You can now use Espresso and Robot Frameworks in App Accessibility Automate.
- Enhanced Mobile Accessibility Coverage: You can now automatically detect issues related to responsive containers (WCAG 1.4.10), input field labels (WCAG 1.3.5, 2.4.6, 3.3.2), and input types (WCAG 1.3.5).
Test Reporting & Analytics
- Track Regressions and Improvements with Build Comparison: You can now define a baseline build and compare new test runs against it. This helps you easily track regressions and improvements over time.
- Get Real-Time Progress Updates: You can now see real-time updates for test and build progress directly on your dashboard, making the experience faster, more responsive, and intuitive.
- Unlink Defects from Test Runs: You can now unlink a test from a work item in your project management tools like Jira or Asana, giving you more control over your defect triage process.
- Share Builds and Dashboards Publicly: You can now generate public links to your builds and dashboards, making it easy to share progress and collaborate with teammates or stakeholders.
Test Management
- Zephyr Squad is now supported via the Quick Import feature: Enabled seamless Quick Import of Shared Steps from TestRail, preserving structure and saving time by eliminating manual recreation.
- Test Case Versioning: You can now track every change, compare different versions, and restore previous ones, giving you complete control over your test case history.
- Enhanced Traceability in Jira: You can now view configuration details like OS, browser, and device directly in the Test Run view of the BrowserStack Jira app, ensuring full traceability at a glance.
Percy
- Smarter Visual Testing with Region Capabilities: You can now streamline your visual testing in Percy by using region capabilities. Focus on specific UI areas that matter most, ignore non-critical changes, speed up review cycles, and boost test reliability by isolating dynamic content. Plus, automated region management across tests makes everything more efficient.
Low Code Automation
- Service Account Support: Introduced service account support to enable seamless execution of scheduled test suites in private environments, eliminating the need to use the group owner's access key.
- Create Dynamic Test Scenarios with Loops: You can now repeat steps in a test flow based on a counter, element presence, or matching text, making your test scenarios smarter and more adaptable.
- Easily Rearrange Test Steps: You can now move steps within a test, giving you more flexibility and control when authoring or editing your tests.
- Improve Web Component Automation: You can now interact with slot elements in Shadow DOMs, enabling deeper and more accurate automation of web components.
- Customize Modules with Ease: You can now ungroup module steps into regular steps, allowing for inline editing and better customization of reusable modules.
Community Updates
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