Company
Date Published
Author
Shubham Zapate
Word count
418
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

BrowserStack has launched a new feature that allows developers and QA teams to run automated tests on real iOS devices with Safari, addressing the critical limitation of mobile emulation. This capability is exclusive to BrowserStack Automate and enables teams to confidently validate their web applications on actual iPhones and iPads, ensuring comprehensive test coverage on mobile devices and catching Safari bugs directly in CI. With this release, teams can now run parallel tests across 1000+ real iOS and Android device-browser combinations, capture detailed debugging artifacts, and simulate real-world conditions, all accessible from a unified dashboard without requiring any code changes. This feature delivers immediate benefits such as eliminating mobile emulation gaps, catching Safari bugs directly in CI, maintaining stable pipelines at scale, providing complete artifacts for rapid triage, and reducing false positives, ensuring consistent and reliable test outcomes even as test suites grow. Teams can get started today by updating their BrowserStack configuration file and running Playwright tests on real iOS devices.