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Featured Content
How High-Performing QA Teams Are Adapting To AI
[EVENT] The real challenge with AI isn't getting a demo to work. It's building quality workflows that teams can trust in production. At the QA Leadership Summit, engineering leaders and directors share how they're integrating AI into testing, measuring its impact, and creating reliable systems that scale. Virtual event, July 22.
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Launching BrowserStack Load Testing
[NEW LAUNCH] Green API metrics shouldn’t hide a freezing UI when traffic spikes. BrowserStack’s new Load Testing platform unifies backend load generation, real browser performance, and APM metrics into a single dashboard. Powered by AI agents that automatically correlate data points and pinpoint root causes, it drastically cuts performance debugging time with zero infrastructure overhead.
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Product Updates
App Automate| Percy & App Percy| Website Scanner| Accessibility | App Accessibility| Design Accessibility | Test Management | Low Code Automation
App Automate
- Test sharding for XCTestPlans: Accelerate your iOS testing with new sharding support for XCTestPlans, allowing you to easily distribute and run tests in parallel.
- Expanded Maestro support: We've broadened our Maestro framework integration to include full support for Emulators and Simulators, giving you more flexibility in your mobile testing.
- Enhanced interactive sessions: Enjoy a smoother testing experience with improved stability and full landscape orientation support during your interactive sessions.
Percy & App Percy
- Pinpoint location comments: Reviewing visual changes is now easier with Figma-like location comments, allowing your team to leave targeted feedback at specific points directly within a comparison.
- AI-powered ignore regions: Save time on manual reviews with new AI suggestions that automatically recommend ignore-regions for repeating visual differences at the same coordinates across your builds.
- Robot Framework support: We've expanded our testing ecosystem with full support for the Robot Framework.
- Latest SDK support: Stay up to date with our newly added support for Storybook 10 and Cypress 15.10 across the Percy SDK suite.
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Website Scanner
- Role-Based Access Control (RBAC): We've enhanced enterprise readiness with granular RBAC, giving you precise control over team permissions and data access.
- Mobile accessibility scanning: You can now scan for accessibility issues on mobile web pages with our newly added Chrome for Android support.
- WCAG-compliant home page: We are continuously improving our own accessibility, proudly achieving full WCAG compliance for the Website Scanner Home Page.
- Scan Time ETAs: Get better visibility into your scan progress with real-time ETA displays during execution.
- Enhanced report summaries: Gain deeper insights with our upgraded Report Summary Tab, now featuring Issue Resolution Trends, Issue Trends, and powerful Compare Reports capabilities (available for all scanners except A11y).
- One-year trend scores: Monitor your long-term website health with new 12-month historical tracking for the Broken Link and Spell Check scanners.
- Historical Core Web Vitals: Our Performance Reports now feature historical tracking of Core Web Vitals for your specified URLs, helping you monitor speed and user experience over time.
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Accessibility
- Smarter issue triage: Cut down your triage time and boost productivity with smarter issue grouping, perception management, and bulk "Needs Review" capabilities.
- Role-Based Access Control: Secure your data with our newly enabled RBAC for users and service accounts, ensuring authorized access across your organization.
- Redesigned navigation: Easily discover our full product suite and powerful AI capabilities with a newly optimized, user-friendly left navigation layout.
- Custom Dashboards (GA): Now generally available, Custom Dashboards let you consolidate all your reports to seamlessly track accessibility health and trends in a single, centralized view.
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App Accessibility
- Accessibility Scoring: Quickly assess, benchmark, and track your app's overall accessibility health with our newly launched A11y score.
- Certificate injection: You can now seamlessly and securely test enterprise apps with our newly enabled certificate injection support.
- AppLivery integration: Easily test the accessibility of apps distributed via AppLivery directly within your standard A11y workflow.
- Comprehensive CSV exports: Your CSV exports can now include passed elements, giving you a complete picture of your accessibility testing results.
- Enhanced Flutter compatibility: Enjoy improved accuracy and compatibility when scanning Flutter apps, thanks to our latest rule engine enhancements.
- Dedicated device support: Run your App A11y automated tests seamlessly on dedicated automated devices.
- Maestro and TRA integration: We've added specific Maestro enhancements to ensure smooth compatibility with Test Reporting & Analytics (TRA).
Design Accessibility
- Expanded GRR support: We've rolled out Global Region Routing (GRR) support across the EU, US, IN, and AU regions to ensure data compliance and performance.
- Universal Component Scanner: You can now scan any design component with our significantly expanded Component Scanner capabilities.
- Enterprise-grade RBAC: Manage your team securely with our new Role-Based Access Control, tailored to meet the strict security requirements of enterprise workflows.
Test Management
- Exploratory testing: You can now conduct flexible, unscripted exploratory testing directly within the platform.
- Xray Server support: Seamlessly integrate your workflows with our new Xray Server support for test cases.
- Enhanced Rich Text Editor: Document your Test Plans and Test Runs more effectively with our upgraded editor, now featuring robust table formatting, image support, and secure migration integrity.
- Interactive pie charts: Gain deeper visibility into your test coverage with interactive, drill-down pie charts in the Test Plan Detailed View.
- Smarter tag searching: Find the tests you need instantly with improved case-insensitive and partial matching for tag searches.
- Enhanced traceability reports: We've added a dedicated dataset column to our Requirement Traceability reports to give you a more comprehensive view of your coverage.
- Granular RBAC: Maintain strict control over your test management data with highly customizable Role-Based Access Control.
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Low Code Automation
- Enhanced performance and stability: Enjoy a faster, more reliable low-code automation experience with our latest under-the-hood stability improvements.
- API variable management: You can now programmatically set variable values via API calls directly within your Low Code/No Code (LCNC) workflows.
- Dynamic drag and drop: Build tests faster and more intuitively with our newly implemented dynamic drag-and-drop functionality.
- Global timeout settings: Gain more control over your test executions by easily configuring global timeout settings across your projects.
- Expanded device support: Test across a broader range of hardware with new devices added to our Low Code Automation platform.
- Unified status updates: Keep your team aligned with synchronized automation status updates between Low Code/No Code and Test Management.
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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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We're looking for speakers for our upcoming BrowserStack QA Meetups in your city! If you have valuable insights, experiences, or innovative ideas to share, we want to hear from you. Fill out the form to volunteer as a speaker and help us bring engaging and educational content to our meetups. Join us in making a positive impact on the QA community!
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We're looking for speakers for our upcoming BrowserStack QA Meetups in your city! If you have valuable insights, experiences, or innovative ideas to share, we want to hear from you. Fill out the form to volunteer as a speaker and help us bring engaging and educational content to our meetups. Join us in making a positive impact on the QA community!
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