Owner email notifications

Get email notifications when tests you own fail to fix issues faster.

Instead of manually checking if your tests passed or failed, you’ll get an email notification whenever tests you own fail in a build. This works like code ownership - you only get notified about the tests that belong to you.

How owner email notifications work

Owner email notifications have the following features:

• You get one email at the end of each build (not for every single test failure).
• Lists all your failed tests with direct links to view them.
• If a test has multiple owners, everyone gets notified.
• If a test passes after retries, no notification is sent.

You won’t get notified for:

• Tests you don’t own.
• Muted tests.
• Tests where the owner’s email doesn’t match a BrowserStack account.
• Projects you don’t have access to, even if you’re marked as an owner.

Configuring owner email notifications

You can configure owner email notifications by following these steps:

Managing your notifications

In Integrations > Email > Test Failure Notifications > Configure, you can:

• Turn notifications on/off for each project.
• Choose specific builds to monitor (by build name).
• Globally disable all test failure notifications.

Troubleshoot if you aren’t receiving owner email notifications

If you don’t see the owner field in your test metadata, ask your team to start including owner information when running tests. Although non-email owners like “John Smith” will be visible in test details, the test owner won’t receive notifications.

Owner notification is disabled by default to prevent spam. You need to opt in.

This feature helps you catch test failures early and fits naturally into code ownership workflows, similar to GitHub’s CODEOWNERS.