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Featured Content
Breakpoint 2026: The Playbook for AI-Driven Testing Is Being Written Right Now
[EVENT] Most QA teams are navigating AI-driven testing without a clear roadmap. Breakpoint 2026 is where that changes — Selenium founder Jason Huggins, KPMG's Keith Klain, Ashley Hunsberger, and over 50 speakers share what's actually working across real teams. Live sessions, honest Q&A, hands-on workshops. Join us from wherever you are, 12–14 May 2026.
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The State of AI in Software Testing 2026 is Here!
[NEW REPORT] 61% of teams now use AI across testing workflows, but the gap between high performers and the rest is widening. See what the data says about budgets, ROI, and where AI is delivering the most value.
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Product Updates
App Automate| Percy & App Percy| Website Scanner| Accessibility | App Accessibility| Accessibility Design Toolkit|Accessibility Devtools| Test Reporting & Analytics | Test Management | Testing Toolkit
App Automate
- Maestro gets major upgrades: You can now run tests on the latest v2.x and split your suite into shards for faster parallel execution across real iOS and Android devices.
Percy & App Percy
- Browser upgrades for Percy Web: We've upgraded support for Chrome, Edge, Safari, and Firefox, ensuring your visual testing environments stay perfectly up to date.
- Unified search experience: Finding exactly what you need is now faster and easier with our enhanced, unified search functionality across the Percy dashboard.
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Website Scanner
- Dynamic URL authentication: You can now interact with and click elements directly within the Website Scanner to seamlessly authenticate and run reports on gated flows.
- Biannual automated scans: Set it and forget it with our new six-month recurring scan support, giving you reliable, long-term automated monitoring with proper database persistence.
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Accessibility
- Part of Page Scanning: Now, you can focus your scans on the specific components or sections you own - across Test automation and Low Code Automation
- Safari support for Live Toolkit (Alpha): We are expanding our testing coverage for macOS users with our new Safari browser support, currently available in Alpha.
- WCAG 2.2 AA compliance: You can test with confidence knowing our platform now fully meets the latest WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility standards as well.
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App Accessibility
- Compare Reports: Easily track and squash accessibility regressions by comparing successive runs of the same build side-by-side.
- Customizable rulesets: Generate cleaner, highly tailored reports by excluding specific accessibility rulesets on a test-level basis during automated runs.
- Enhanced Screen Reader Automation: You can now automatically scan the entire screen, even elements beyond the visible viewport, to catch deep screen reader violations.
- Role-Based Access Control (RBAC): Admins now have granular control over user permissions and actions within their organization, keeping your test data secure and preventing unauthorized access.
Accessibility Design Toolkit
- AI Contrast Checking for Gradients & Images: Our AI agent now automatically detects color contrast for text on gradients and images in your Figma files.
- Figma plugin exports: Easily keep your team in the loop by exporting scan results directly from the Figma plugin to your Design toolkit dashboard, simplifying how you share accessibility statuses with stakeholders.
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Accessibility Devtools
- AI-Powered Custom Component Mapping: You can now use our VS Code Chat Participant to automatically map your internal Design System components to accessibility rules.
- Expanded linting support: We've broadened our developer toolkit by introducing dedicated linting support for the UIKit framework, HTML, and Angular, helping you catch issues earlier in your code.
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Test Reporting & Analytics
- Pattern-based failure analysis: Save time on manual triage. You can now define custom regex-based "pattern rules" on test error messages and stack traces to automatically tag failures with the correct category.
- App Automate Detox support: App Automate users can now seamlessly view their Detox testing sessions directly within the New Dashboard, eliminating the need to toggle back to the old interface.
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Test Management
- Shared preconditions support: Streamline your test creation by easily setting up and reusing shared preconditions across your test suite.
- Inline test case editing: Make updates on the fly with new inline editing capabilities directly within the Test Case Details slideover.
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Testing Toolkit
- Multi-language test cases: Break down global barriers by writing and managing your test cases in any language.
- Standalone Atlassian generation: Our test case generator now works directly seamlessly on Atlassian pages without requiring any extra integration setup.
- AI-powered API chaining: Supercharge your Common Workflow Automation by using AI to effortlessly chain complex API calls together.
- Enhanced Storybook support: You can now leverage advanced Storybook features with new support for MDX, Autodocs, and Shadow DOM, giving you even more flexibility in how you build and visually test your modern UI components.
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Community Updates
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Rethinking Quality in Software
If you reward a team just for shipping fast, you can't be surprised when quality takes a hit!
Quality is a byproduct of your system—your culture, your rewards, and your incentives.
#BrowserStackTalks episode, David Burns sits down with Alan Page to discuss the shifting landscape of quality in software development—and where it often goes wrong. They discuss how systems thinking is underrated, the "hot take" that quality isn't testing, and why curiosity will always beat AI when it comes to solving problems. It’s a conversation about moving beyond checklists and the role of the "quality police"—and lean into context and better questions.
Watch the full conversation here.
If you reward a team just for shipping fast, you can't be surprised when quality takes a hit!
Quality is a byproduct of your system—your culture, your rewards, and your incentives.
#BrowserStackTalks episode, David Burns sits down with Alan Page to discuss the shifting landscape of quality in software development—and where it often goes wrong. They discuss how systems thinking is underrated, the "hot take" that quality isn't testing, and why curiosity will always beat AI when it comes to solving problems. It’s a conversation about moving beyond checklists and the role of the "quality police"—and lean into context and better questions.
Watch the full conversation here.
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