BrowserStack Newsletter October 2025

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Featured Content | Product Updates | Community Updates | BrowserStack Testimonials

Featured Content

Accessibility Issue Detection Agent: AI-Powered Accessibility Testing

[NEW LAUNCH] Go beyond basic accessibility testing. Meet BrowserStack's new Issue Detection Agent, it's like having a WCAG expert built into your workflow. The AI agent detects complex issues and reduces validation time by mimicking human intelligence.
Run a free scan to catch what others miss!

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Self-Healing Agent: Auto-Fix Broken Locators, Keep Builds Green

[PRODUCT UPDATE] One small UI change shouldn’t derail your entire pipeline. BrowserStack’s new Self-Healing Agent automatically detects and fixes broken locators during test runs, reducing automation failures by up to 40%. Available now on Automate, App Automate, and Low-Code Automation, the agent gives you transparent logs so you stay in control. Stop fixing tests, start shipping features.
Activate Self-Healing now!

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Product Updates

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

Automate

• Introducing Build Optimisation: Accelerate your releases and reduce test flakiness! Our new Build Optimisation features for Selenium frameworks include Auto-Rerun, Fail-Fast, Run-Failures-Only, and Skip-Flaky (with AI Smart Selection) to ensure faster, more reliable test execution and easier debugging.

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App Automate

• Build Optimisation for Appium: We've launched Build Optimisation for top Appium test frameworks, incorporating features like Auto-Rerun, Fail-Fast, Run-Failures-Only, and Skip-Flaky (with AI Smart Selection) to give you faster builds, reduced flakiness, and more efficient mobile testing.

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Accessibility Testing

• PDF Scanner is now GA: Automatically scan PDF files against WCAG 2.2 and PDF/UA-2 standards to find and fix accessibility with clear, detailed how-to-fix guideline.
• Enhanced reporting and debugging: Improved export reports now include screenshots in CSV and offer enhanced debugging capabilities using XPath/Ancestry for precise component identification.
• Tagging support for website scanner scans: Added tagging support for Website Scanner scans to help you better organize and manage your results.
• Faster intermediate reports: Get your first reports in under 60 seconds! We've enabled intermediate reports across Workflow Analyser, Website Scanner, and Automation, greatly improving your perceived performance.
• ClickUp integration for web A11y reports: Seamlessly integrate your Web Accessibility Reports with ClickUp to streamline task management and bug reporting for accessibility issues.

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App Accessibility Testing

• Continuous scanning on Workflow Analyser: Integrate manual accessibility testing into your manual functional workflow. Continuous Scanning runs accessibility checks in the background as you navigate your app, surfacing issues instantly.
• Configure accessibility scans in Test Automation: Gain granular control over your automated accessibility checks by using the new Start and Stop Scanning feature directly within your test script.
• Expanded framework support: We now support XCUIT and Nunit frameworks on App A11y Automate, enabling you to run automated accessibility checks alongside your automated functional tests.
  
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Accessibility Design Toolkit

• Expanded WCAG SC coverage: We've released two new features (Reflow and Resize Text) to improve overall WCAG Success Criterion coverage, enhancing your ability to design inclusively.
• Multi-frame scan for designers: Designers can now use our Multi-Frame Scan feature to scan entire user journeys instead of just individual frames, ensuring a complete and contextual accessibility review.
• ~30% faster scan times: We've implemented significant performance improvements, leading to an approximate 30% reduction in total scan times for Design Accessibility.
  
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Accessibility Devtools

• Lint iOS projects on Accessibility Devtools: Scan your Swift codebase for accessibility violations directly in Xcode to catch issues before QA or production.
  
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Low Code Automation

• Module parameterization: Achieve greater flexibility and reusability by using Module Parameterization to override module variable values for specific test instances.
• Blockwise execution: Improve test efficiency and control by using Blockwise Execution, which allows you to combine parallel and sequential executions within a single test suite.
  
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Website Scanner

• Website crawler: Easily identify all underlying pages of a website by crawling it first, then seamlessly run a comprehensive scan across all discovered pages.
• AI diff support for visual and responsive scanner: AI-powered difference detection has been added to our Visual and Responsive Scanners, making it easier and faster to spot and resolve unintended visual changes.
• Reduced broken link false positives: You can now specifically ignore certain components or issues in the results of the broken link checker, significantly reducing false positives and improving scan relevance.
• Standardized email notifications: We've standardized and enhanced the email notifications you receive upon scan completion for a cleaner, more informative experience.
  
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Community Updates

[Case study] Škoda achieves 99.6% test stability, accelerating bug resolution with App Automate

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BrowserStack Testimonials

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