BrowserStack Newsletter May 2025

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Featured Content | Product Updates | Community Updates | BrowserStack Testimonials

Featured Content

Playwright Tests on Real iOS Devices

[new launch] BrowserStack Automate now supports Playwright testing on real iOS devices. Expand your test coverage and effortlessly scale across 1,000+ real iOS and Android device-browser combinations. Learn more

BrowserStack Now Offers 24×7 Support

[enhancement] BrowserStack Support is now available 24/7 across email, chat, and phone. We’ve designed our support experience to be available whenever and however you need it. Talk to us

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Product Updates

Live | App Live | Automate | App Automate | Accessibility Testing | Test Management | Percy | Low Code Automation

Live

• DevTools Support on Edge for Android: You can now use Chrome DevTools to inspect and debug Edge browsers on Android devices, making mobile web testing on Edge more seamless.
• Multi-Device Testing Support on Edge Browser: We have also launched MDT support for Edge, enabling you to test your web experiences across multiple devices simultaneously using the Edge browser.

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App Live

• AAB Build Support for Applivery Integration: You can now upload and distribute your Android App Bundles (AAB) directly via Applivery integration.
• Timezone Support for Android & Huawei OS Devices: We have launched timezone simulation support on Android and Huawei OS devices, enabling even more accurate testing for global apps across multiple time zones.

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Automate

• Simplified Network Log Analysis: You can now filter out unwanted host names in network logs, making debugging faster and cleaner.

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App Automate

• Crash Logs for Espresso, XCUITest & Appium: You can now access detailed crash logs for Espresso and XCUITest sessions, in addition to existing support for Appium.
• Support for Appium 2.18.0: We have launched support for the latest Appium version 2.18.0 to ensure compatibility with your evolving test environments.
• Support for .cer Certificate Files: You can now use .cer file format for certificate-based authentication.

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Accessibility Testing

• AI-powered accessibility testing now in your IDE: We've upgraded the BrowserStack MCP Server with AI-powered accessibility testing and one-click code fixes in your IDE. Detect and fix issues as you code, with smart suggestions from tools like GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or Claude—so you can catch bugs early and cut down on backlogs and delays.
• Introducing AI-Based Issue Detection for Image Alt Text: We’ve launched AI-powered detection for alt text quality, automatically identifying images with missing or non-meaningful alt attributes and suggesting better alternatives. This enhances accessibility compliance and significantly improves the screen reader experience for users with visual impairments.
• Tables Assisted Test for header & markup issues: Introducing a new Tables Assisted Test to help users detect missing table headers and incorrect table markup. Tables AT leverages AI to assist users in identifying potential header cells, making it easier to validate semantic structure and ensure screen reader compatibility.

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Test Management

• AI-Powered Test Case Creation from Jira Requirements: You can now generate test cases directly from Jira requirements within the Jira App. This includes support for custom fields and both inline and attached documents, allowing AI to interpret requirement details with greater accuracy.
• AI-Powered Test Case Generation from User Context: We’ve launched the ability to generate comprehensive test cases directly from user-provided inputs like requirement docs or text prompts using the Test Case Generator AI agent, all in just seconds.
• Bulk Edit Enhancements for Test Cases: You can now streamline test management workflows with improved Bulk Edit capabilities, including support for editing custom fields across multiple test cases at once.
• Custom Test Case Templates: We’ve launched custom test case templates to help you standardize and simplify test creation across different projects and teams.
• Create & Manage Custom Configuration Groups in Test Runs: You can now organize and execute test runs across multiple configurations by creating and managing custom configuration groups, giving you greater control and flexibility.
• Step-Level Attachments & Notes in Test Runs: You can now add attachments and notes directly to individual test steps during execution, enhancing clarity, traceability, and collaboration in your test processes.
• Import BDD Test Cases via Feature Files: You can now import BDD test cases directly using feature files. This streamlines your BDD workflows by converting Gherkin-based scenarios into structured test cases.
• Enhanced Rich Text Editor & Increased Character Limits: We’ve upgraded our text editor with rich formatting options and expanded character limits, making it easier to write detailed, well-structured test documentation.
• New Integration: Linear + Test Management: We’ve released a new integration with Linear to streamline your testing workflows, improve visibility, and enable tighter collaboration across projects.
• TestRail Shared Steps Migration: You can now seamlessly migrate shared steps from TestRail, ensuring consistent mapping and a smoother import experience.

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Percy | App Percy

• AI-powered Visual Review Agent: Enable Visual Review Agent to highlight only meaningful visual changes, generate smart summaries & reduce overall review time by 3x.
• Percy Integration with Github Enterprise server with data residency - Access status of Percy builds on your pull requests directly in your Github Enterprise account with data residency for streamlined reviews & approvals.
• Browser configuration at Snapshot level - Now you can configure browser, browser versions even at the snapshot level in Percy.

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Low Code Automation

• Ungroup Modules into Steps: You can now ungroup a module into individual steps and work with them directly. This is perfect for teams that want to use only a few steps from a module, rearrange them, or make small changes, without rerecording or affecting other tests.
• Easily Reorder Test Steps:You can now reorder steps within a test case to match your intended flow. No need to delete or re-record, just drag, drop, and adjust with ease.
• Keep Your Tests Organized with Projects:We’ve launched Projects to help you stay organized as testing scales. You can now group related tests across different apps, environments, or teams, making your workspace cleaner and more navigable.
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Community Updates

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BrowserStack Testimonials

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