New in App Automation: Network Throttling, and Locale/Language Support for Espresso and XCUITest

Network Throttling Support for Web and App Automation on Real Devices 📶 

 Now streamline your Appium testing and validate your app performance on varied network conditions such as 2G, 3G, LTE, and offline scenarios. It offers the capability to simulate diverse network profiles, replicating real-world scenarios and ensuring a reliable testing experience for both web and app automation on real devices. 

Refer to the documentation to get started: Network Throttling for Appium Automation.

Locale/Language Support for Espresso and XCUITest Automation 🌏 

While executing tests with Espresso and XCUITest, you now have the ability to effortlessly set up both locale and language preferences. This functionality ensures detailed testing of your mobile native and web applications with respect to various linguistic and regional scenarios.

To get started, check the following documentation:


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Beta Browser Support in HyperExecute

HyperExecute 

HyperExecute now supports beta browsers for the Windows Platform! 🎉

This means you can now test your web applications on the latest beta versions of popular browsers for the Windows platform, ensuring compatibility and catching potential issues early on.

Here's what's new:

  • Beta Browser Deployment: Easily deploy beta browsers on HyperExecute, just as you would stable browsers.
  • Expanded Testing Coverage: Expand your testing coverage to include beta browser versions, identifying potential compatibility issues before they impact your users.
  • Stay Ahead of the Curve: Get ahead of the game by testing on beta browsers and ensuring your web applications are ready for the latest browser features.

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Now Test Your Mobile Apps on iOS 17.2

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Hey folks 😀 

LambdaTest now supports real-time browser and app testing on iOS 17.2 simulators. You can now thoroughly test your web and native mobile applications across various simulators running iOS version 17.2 📱

INTEGRATIONS

We constantly update our integration bucket to ensure compatibility with your preferred tools. Here are the latest LambdaTest integrations:

  • Gradle Plugin: LambdaTest has integrated with Gradle that lets you Espresso test automation at scale. By managing the entire development life cycle, from compilation to testing and deployment, the LambdaTest Gradle Plugin enables efficient parallel testing on real devices.
  • New Relic: LambdaTest integration with New Relic allows you to access LambdaTest test results within a customized New Relic Dashboard that provides a comprehensive overview of system performance and potential issues. This integration allows you to accelerate product delivery without compromising quality and speed.

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Smart UI: New API to Fetch Build Status and Ability to Capture Screenshot of Specific Element

New API to Fetch Build Status for Smart UI 🔼 

With the new API for Smart UI testing, you can now get all the build statuses by making an API call for fetching the status of the builds that are run in your project. 

To get started, check the documentation - APIs for Smart UI Automation

Capture Screenshots of Specific Elements with Selenium 📷 

You can now capture screenshots of specific elements by leveraging various locator mechanisms such as XPath, CSS ID, class, and selectors. This precision-driven approach ensures accurate Selenium visual regression testing for your web application. 

Refer to our guide - Capture Screenshot of Specific Element with Selenium.

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New in Smart UI: Custom Viewport Configuration for Storybook

To provide the visualization of your UI components on various device screens, you can now set up custom viewport configurations. 

This feature is an extension of Storybook's existing Viewport toolbar item, enabling you to capture and view stories in different dimensions, such as mobile or tablet, with specific orientations like portrait or landscape.

📒 To get started, refer to our guide: Custom Viewport Configuration for Storybook.

Live With Intelligent UI Inspector for Real Devices

Hey folks 👋 

LambdaTest real device cloud is now live with an Intelligent UI Inspector to help developers, and testers overcome the challenges of inspecting app elements. 🔧 

The new Intelligent UI Inspector simplifies interacting with app elements and eliminates the need for repetitive inspector opening and closing. 

Additionally, it streamlines the creation of reliable custom XPath, addresses the complexity of hybrid app inspection, and saves time by facilitating effortless app relaunches. Moreover, it enhances the user experience by offering an intuitive interface catering to various user preferences.

For more details, please refer to our product update - Introducing Intelligent UI Inspector for Real Device Cloud

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Announcing LambdaTest's New Real Device Data Center

We are excited to announce the launch of our new real device data center in the North American West region. This expansion allows our customers to access a wider variety of devices for their testing requirements, with the added benefit of faster and more convenient service.

For those customers who whitelist IP addresses, please ensure you add our new data center's IP to your allowlist to maintain seamless service:

  • New Data Center IP: 209.58.137.41/32

New Features: Smart UI and Account Management

Smart UI

  • Perform Smart UI testing with Storybook 7 and get enhanced component visualization, testing, and collaboration capabilities.
  • Smart baseline strategy for SmartUI to streamline the process of updating baselines for approved screenshots, reducing manual intervention, and improving the overall efficiency of the testing workflow.
  • Now take multiple screenshots in a build and give them the same name. This is useful for comparing different stages or elements, as you're not limited to just one screenshot with the same name in a build. This overwrite screenshot feature in Smart UI will replace (overwrite) the latest screenshot with the previous ones in that build.

ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT

  • New security features in the LambdaTest Tunnel to configure security options for the tunnel to restrict tunnel creation to specific users, turn tunnel sharing on or off, and control which local domains are accessible (or inaccessible) through the tunnel. 
  • Audit logs in LambdaTest Tunnel for user and organization-level activities to monitor account activity, detect unauthorized access, investigate security incidents, track user-level and organization-level activity history, and audit compliance with security policies.
  • Password and access key expiry policy to let organization administrators set the duration of password and access key expiry. After that, users can create a new password and/or use the regenerated access key. Admins will also be able to exempt certain users from the application of this policy. 
  • LambdaTest integration with Zenkit for tracking and managing bugs and issues. With this integration, you can effortlessly log bugs directly from the LambdaTest platform to your Zenkit instance, eliminating the need to maintain tasks and issues manually. 

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Introducing New Features in HyperExecute

Semaphore CI/CD Pipeline Integration with HyperExecute: Seamless Test Executions and Shorter Test Cycles

Semaphore CI/CD is a popular cloud-based platform that helps engineering teams of all sizes build, test, and deploy their software faster and more reliably. HyperExecute is a powerful test execution platform that offers unparalleled speed, efficiency, scalability, and compatibility. 

The new integration between Semaphore CI/CD and HyperExecute will allow teams to execute their tests on HyperExecute's cloud infrastructure seamlessly. This can help teams significantly shorten their test cycles and deliver software faster.

📕 For more details, check the documentation.

Run Smart UI Tests from HyperExecute using Cypress Framework

Cypress is a popular JavaScript framework for developing end-to-end UI tests. It offers several advantages over other UI testing frameworks, including speed, simplicity, and reliability. HyperExecute now supports the Cypress framework, allowing teams to run their Cypress UI tests on our cloud infrastructure, thus helping teams improve the quality of their UI tests and reduce the time to test their applications.

📕 Head over to our documentation to get started with SmartUI on HYP using Cypress

HyperExecute Now Supports Maven/JUnit4, Maven/JUnit5, Wdio/Mocha, and Wdio/Jasmine Frameworks

HyperExecute now supports four popular testing frameworks: Maven/JUnit4, Maven/JUnit5, Wdio/Mocha, and Wdio/Jasmine. Teams can now use HyperExecute to execute their tests in a wider range of programming languages and environments. Adding support for these four frameworks makes HyperExecute a more versatile and powerful test execution platform.

📕 For more details, check the documentation.

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Introducing New App Automation Features – Available Now

LambdaTest App Automation has just shipped new features that make it easier than ever to build, test, and deploy quality mobile apps. 🚀 

Take a look 👇 

📌 New Lambda Hook to help you differentiate between multiple test cases within a single Appium session. This feature aims to improve debugging capabilities, making it easier to identify which test cases may be causing errors or taking longer to execute.

📌 See highlighted elements in both live and saved videos when using the findElement method for Appium testing. This can help you to easily identify which elements your script is interacting with during test execution and to review saved videos to understand how your tests performed and interacted with the elements.

To use this feature, your organization must have instrumentation enabled. You also need to add the instrumented: true capability to your test script.

📌 Live video support for web automation on real devices that provides real-time video feedback as your web automation scripts execute on real Android and iOS devices. This can help you to identify issues more easily, improve the quality of your testing, and validate the user experience directly.

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