Overview

Discover Test Companion, an AI-powered testing assistant that seamlessly integrates into your IDE.

Test Companion is an innovative AI-powered testing assistant designed for developers and QA engineers. It integrates test creation, automation, and maintenance directly into your integrated development environment (IDE), making quality assurance a seamless part of your development workflow.

With Test Companion, you can easily transition from concept to validated code by generating test cases from requirements and converting them into automation scripts. Additionally, if your BrowserStack Test Management and Test Reporting & Analytics (TRA) are connected, it will analyze test failures and sync them with Test Management.

Traditional testing often occurs too late in the release cycle, leading to issues such as broken tests with code changes, slow debugging processes, and prolonged automation maintenance. Test Companion addresses these challenges by embedding an AI-driven assistant within your IDE, enabling you to write, maintain, and debug tests continuously while you code.

Core capabilities of Test Companion

Test Companion integrates a complete testing workflow directly into your IDE, allowing you to manage the entire test lifecycle without switching contexts. Here is what you can do:

Generate test cases from requirements

Stop writing test cases manually. With Test Companion, you can provide requirements, such as a user story or a Product Requirements Document (PRD) and it will intelligently analyze them to generate comprehensive test cases.

• What it does: Creates detailed test cases, including functional, edge-case, and exploratory insights.
• Where it syncs: You can edit your test cases in the IDE if your BrowserStack Test Management is connected to sync them. If not, you can export them as a .csv file.

Automate scripts in your framework

Easily convert any test case into a runnable automation script with a single prompt. Test Companion supports multiple frameworks and generates code that adheres to your project’s existing design patterns, such as the Page Object Model.

• Supported frameworks: Works with Playwright, Cypress, WebdriverIO, and more.
• Tests covered: Can generate automation scripts for both UI and API tests.

Maintain and debug tests

Test Companion helps keep your test suite healthy and aligned with your application’s code.

• Maintenance: If your TRA is connected, Test Companion helps you tackle broken tests from the build with ease and get your tests back on track.
• Smart debugging: When a test fails, Test Companion analyzes the failure, identifies the root cause, and suggests actionable code fixes that can be applied directly in your IDE.

Integrate your entire workflow in the IDE

Test Companion consolidates all testing tasks in one place, eliminating the need to switch between multiple tools.

From the IDE, you can:

• Write, review, and edit test cases.
• Generate test automation scripts.
• Fetch error reports and analyze failures.
• Sync all test cases and results with your BrowserStack Test Management and Test Reporting & Analytics, if already set up.

How Test Companion fits into your QA workflow

The following table highlights how Test Companion redefines each stage of the testing lifecycle. It contrasts the traditional, manual approach with the AI-assisted workflow enabled by Test Companion, helping you quickly see where it delivers the most impact.

Next steps

• Get started with Test Companion: Follow the guide to add Test Companion to your IDE.
• Generate your first test case: Learn how to generate cases from a requirement.
• Automate your first script: Convert a test case into an automation script.