May 2023 Summaries

Digital accessibility is crucial in today's digital age as it ensures inclusivity for individuals with disabilities. Over 1 billion people worldwide have significant impairments, making the impact of digital accessibility substantial. Businesses are recognizing the importance of accessibility and its effects on brand reputation, user satisfaction, and legal compliance. However, existing tools and solutions for accessibility testing are labor-intensive and inefficient. BrowserStack Accessibility Testing is a new solution designed to simplify manual accessibility testing by offering features such as workflow scanner, assisted tests for complex issues, screen reader on real devices, auto de-duplication, intelligent clustering, instant reporting, smart WCAG mapping, and central reporting dashboard. This super app aims to make manual web accessibility testing seamless and empower businesses to prioritize the accessibility of their digital products.

BrowserStack has introduced a new feature called 'Xcode retry' for XCUI tests executed on App Automate, which can improve the overall XCUI test success rate without manual intervention. Some early adopters have seen a 4% increase in their test success rates. To use this feature, users need to pass additional parameters to the API POST /app-automate/xcuitest/v2/build. BrowserStack's App Automate offers instant access to over 70 unique real iOS devices for testing and extensive parallelization capabilities. Users can sign up for a 14-day free trial to experience the benefits of running XCUI tests on BrowserStack.

BrowserStack has released new features for its Percy visual testing platform. These include Usage Analytics to provide insights into test performance, coverage, and trends; multiple SCM integration support for Github, Gitlab, and Bitbucket; self-serve SCM integration; team management features; and screenshot quota management. The updates aim to enhance the build quality and accelerate release cycles for Dev and QA teams.