February 2023 Summaries

Samsung has released its latest smartphones, the Galaxy S23 and S23 Ultra, exclusively on BrowserStack two days before their global retail launch. This move is a significant step for BrowserStack as it consistently adds new devices like Apple iPhone 14 and Google Pixel 7 to its cloud on Day 0 of their global retail launch. The addition of Samsung Galaxy S23 series devices allows BrowserStack customers to test their applications before the devices hit the market, ensuring a flawless experience for users. Nakul Aggarwal, CTO & Co-Founder of BrowserStack, emphasized the company's commitment to improving customer testing experiences by staying up-to-date with technology and hardware advancements. Access to Samsung Galaxy S23 and S23 Ultra is currently being rolled out to Live and App Live users respectively.

BrowserStack has become the first cloud test automation platform to support Real Android devices on Playwright, in beta. Users can now run their Playwright tests on all Android devices available on the BrowserStack Cloud, including models from Apple, Samsung, Google, and more. This enables accurate and scalable testing for mobile web applications without relying on unreliable emulators or simulators. The BrowserStack Engineering Team contributed to the Playwright Open Source codebase to make this possible. Key features include device/browser coverage, parallelization, local testing, and debugging tools.

BrowserStack App Automate now supports Flutter integration tests, allowing developers to run their tests on a Real Device Cloud of over 100 unique real mobile devices and 400 device-OS combinations. This support is crucial as it helps overcome challenges faced in achieving efficient testing at scale for Flutter apps, such as poor device coverage, inability to parallelize tests, and lack of integration testing support on existing platforms. Key features include reliability, parallelization, local testing, easy debugging, and access to a wide range of devices. BrowserStack offers a 14-day free trial for users to experience the benefits of this new feature.

BrowserStack participated in Quality Engineering Expos organized by BNY Mellon EQE team in Chennai and Pune in December 2022. The event showcased innovative capabilities and the vision of the EQE team for driving transformation at scale within BNY Mellon. Aravind Aluri, Head of DevOps & Enterprise Products at BrowserStack, spoke on the Quality Driven Development panel in Pune. BrowserStack was honored with the Quality Partnership Award for 2022 at the event, recognizing them as a key partner in BNY Mellon's transformation journey. The company looks forward to attending more such events and building deeper ties with BNY Mellon and EQE.