November 2023 Summaries

This edition features a Mobile Testing Masterclass, including a webinar exploring Swivel's QA success story in finance and payments testing. The QA Leadership Summit is also highlighted, with sessions available to watch on demand. Product updates include Automate, App Automate, App Live, Test Observability, Test Management, Accessibility Testing, and Percy. Updates cover IE mode on Edge browser, regex for device attributes in App Automate, video injection on App Live, test report configuration in Test Observability, custom fields for test case priority and type in Test Management, testing behind authentication walls in Accessibility Testing, layout testing in Percy, and more. BrowserStack testimonials praise the platform's ease of use, responsive customer support, and useful features like App Live testing.

Percy introduces support for layout testing (alpha), allowing users to evaluate webpage layouts for changes in positioning, styling, and content structure. This feature helps maintain a consistent user experience by highlighting visual inconsistencies in element presentation and arrangement. Layout testing is especially useful for cross-environment testing, ensuring that the page structure remains intact across different operating systems, browsers, devices, viewport sizes, and orientations. The layout diffing feature focuses on validating the structure of page layouts without verifying content alterations.

Percy on Automate is a new feature that integrates functional and visual testing into one pipeline, allowing developers to capture screenshots during functional test runs and compare them to baseline images. This enhancement helps identify UI regressions and ensures the visual integrity of applications. Key benefits include access to over 3500 device/browser combinations, reduced network traffic, and a unified testing pipeline. Percy on Automate also includes direct links between builds for seamless debugging and analysis. The integration streamlines visual testing processes and promises a new era of visual testing excellence.