BrowserStack Newsletter August 2025

What's in this edition

Featured Content | Product Updates | Community Updates | BrowserStack Testimonials

Featured Content

BrowserStack named to 2025 Forbes Cloud 100 for fifth consecutive year

[NEWS] We're thrilled to share that BrowserStack has been recognised on the prestigious 2025 Forbes Cloud 100, marking our fifth consecutive year on this definitive list of the world's top private cloud and AI companies. This milestone reflects the incredible trust you place in us every day.

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Product Updates

Automate | App Automate | Percy| Accessibility Testing| App Accessibility Testing| Test Management | Test Reporting And Analytics | Low Code Automation | Website Scanner

Automate

• Apple Pay testing on iOS Playwright: You can now run your Playwright scripts on Automate to perform end-to-end testing of the complete Apple Pay workflow on real iOS devices.

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App Automate

• Appium version 2.19.0: We now support the latest official release of Appium, version 2.19.0 on App Automate, giving you immediate access to its newest features, bug fixes, and stability improvements for your tests.

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Percy

• Support for capturing cross-origin iframes in Percy: Percy now captures visuals from cross-origin iframes, eliminating blank spots in your tests and allowing you to get a complete, pixel-perfect snapshot of your entire UI.

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Accessibility

• Smart decision persistence: Decisions to "Hide" or flag issues for "Needs Review" are now automatically carried forward, saving you from repetitive manual work on future reports.
• Configure accessibility scans in Test Automation
  We’ve added more control and flexibility to Test Automation with new configuration options.You can now customise when and where accessibility scans run in your automation workflow.

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App Accessibility

• Rule Exclusion for Test Automation: You can now get more control over your test automation and see relevant results faster by excluding specific rules from your automated scans.

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Test Management

• AI-powered BDD test case generation: Generate comprehensive, Gherkin-formatted BDD test cases from your requirements, now fully integrated into all test creation flows.
• Generate test cases directly from Jira links: Simply paste a Jira issue link into the AI prompt, and our generator will automatically fetch all relevant details and attachments to create accurate test cases.
• Copy and move folders across projects: Easily manage, replicate, and reorganize your test case hierarchy by copying or moving entire folders between projects.
• Import test runs from qTest: Migrate your test execution data from qTest with our new importer, which automatically maps entities to the correct test plans and runs.
• New ClickUp integration: Link tasks, requirements, and test results directly to ClickUp to streamline workflows and ensure complete traceability without context switching.
• API support for BDD test cases: Programmatically create, update, and export BDD test cases with our new API support, enabling seamless integration into your CI/CD pipelines.
• Star your favourite projects: Mark projects as starred to pin them to the top of your list for quick and easy access.
• Folder sorting options: Sort folders in your repository and test run views using multiple configurations to organise your work more effectively.
• Audit info via API: A new API endpoint now allows you to retrieve information on the last logged-in users for auditing purposes.
• Email notifications for test activities: Stay updated with automatic email notifications for key events, such as test assignments and status changes.

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Test Reporting And Analytics

• Accessibility insights in your reports: View detailed accessibility results and insights directly within your automation build reports.
• New test execution report: Introducing "Reports," a new area to help QA leaders create proof-of-work summaries and facilitate go/no-go decisions by consolidating test data across builds.
• Improved AI root cause analysis: Our AI RCA agent now uses improved context engineering to provide higher quality and more accurate responses for failure analysis.
• Improved split run report handling: Enhanced processing for sharded JUnit XML and Allure report uploads to better support complex parallel testing setups.
• More control over auto failure analysis: Limit the number of log lines fed into our failure analysis AI for more accurate categorization and greater user control.
• Increased historical comments visibility: View comments on builds and tests from a broader and more extensive timeline.
• Expanded bug reporting integrations: Create and link bug reports directly to more tools, including Trello, GitHub, GitLab, ClickUp, and more.
• Customizable test history mapping: Gain more control over how test results are grouped and historical data is linked using custom platform attributes.
• Expanded support for reruns and split runs: Now with comprehensive support for framework-level reruns and split runs on CAD for more flexible test execution.
• Advanced hook visibility preferences: Get more flexibility with new preferences to ignore failed hooks on CAD, reducing noise in your test results.

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Low Code Automation

• AI Interactions on Safari: Expanded AI action and validation support to Safari, enabling broader cross-browser test coverage.
• Contextual Feedback for Test Automation: Introduced AI-driven guidance that highlights unclear or incomplete test case details, improving automation success rates.
• AI Healing with Explanations: Enhanced transparency by providing clear, user-friendly insights on how AI healed failed steps, boosting trust and adoption.
• Native TestRail Integration: Delivered out-of-the-box integration with TestRail, allowing seamless test case mapping and automated test run publishing from LCA cloud runs.
• Public Build URLs: Added the ability to share view-only build reports via public links, simplifying stakeholder collaboration.
• File content validation: Added support for seamlessly validating file contents for downloaded PDF and CSF files.
  
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Website Scanner

• Scan multiple sitemaps at once: Combine multiple sitemaps in a single scan for more comprehensive coverage.
• Unified scanner access: Find and launch any scanner instantly from the new, centralized left navigation.
• Granular PercyCSS control: Apply PercyCSS on a per-snapshot basis to fine-tune visual tests and reduce false positives.
• Anchor link and navigation testing: Now validate internal navigation flows, including in-page anchor links, not just broken URLs.
  
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Community Updates

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BrowserStack Testimonials

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