With the all-new Team Management feature, enhance team collaboration across your organization's automation testing efforts. By enabling isolated testing environments, this functionality streamlines workflow and improves productivity within teams.

Here's why Team Management can be a game changer for your automation testing efforts:

• Organized Test Management: Easily group users and their corresponding tests based on specific projects, teams, or departments to keep your testing environment structured and efficient.
• Improved Visibility and Control: Administrators can now manage user access to specific test data, ensuring that sensitive or confidential tests are protected from unauthorized access.
• Enhanced Team Collaboration: This feature fosters better communication and knowledge sharing within teams, enabling a more integrated and informed testing process.

📕 Refer to our comprehensive Team Management documentation to know more!

Important Updates 

For app automation: Starting April 15, 2024, all users within an organization will have the ability to view all test results run by any team member across the organization. To maintain confidentiality and control over test visibility, it is recommended to utilize the new Teams feature.

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• Conduct comprehensive scans of entire pages or focus on specific components.
• Automate scans across multiple URLs simultaneously.
• Perform ongoing evaluation and capture issues from user interactions and page redirections.
• Get detailed summaries and customizable settings to streamline the debugging process.
• Get a centralized dashboard for easy tracking and management of accessibility tests.

To get started, check out this guide - LambdaTest Accessibility DevTools.

LambdaTest now offers Apple Pay testing on private real iOS device cloud. This empowers developers and testers to:

• Ensure a seamless Apple Pay experience: Test Apple Pay functionality (card selection, prompts, authentication) on real devices in a controlled environment.
• Catch device-specific issues: Identify issues caused by security settings or OS variations.
• Verify smooth integration: Ensure a flawless Apple Pay experience within your private cloud infrastructure.

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Are your mobile apps ready for the latest Samsung Galaxy S24 series? 

Test them now on LambdaTest real device cloud and ensure your web and native mobile apps are compatible with the latest Samsung Galaxy S24 series. 📱 🌐 

Get ahead of the game by testing on these Galaxy S24 models:

• Galaxy S24
• Galaxy S24+
• Galaxy S24 Ultra

So, what are you waiting for? Head over to LambdaTest real device cloud and ensure your apps shine on the Samsung Galaxy S24 series. 📱 

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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:

• Setting Locale and Language for Espresso
• Setting Locale and Language for XCUITest

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

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📌 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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Are your web and mobile apps ready for Android 14? 

Test them now on LambdaTest virtual device cloud running the latest Android 14 Emulators and ensure your web and native mobile apps are compatible with the latest Android 14. 📱 🌐 

Here are the following Emulators supporting Android 14:

• Google Pixel 7 Pro
• Google Pixel 7
• OnePlus 11 5G
• realme GT2 Pro 

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APP AUTOMATION

App Automation on Emulators and Simulators 

LambdaTest now supports App Automation on Emulators and Simulators. With this feature, you can automate mobile apps on a virtual device cloud of Emulators and Simulators. Currently, this feature is available in the Beta phase, with support for the Appium framework.

SmartUI

DOM Comparison for Playwright and Puppeteer

While performing visual regression testing, if you have any dynamic elements that are not in the same position across test runs, you can now ignore/select a specific area to be removed from the comparison using the Playwright and Puppeteer framework. 

Refer to the documentation to get started - Handle Dynamic Elements in SmartUI.

TEST INTELLIGENCE 

AI-Powered Flaky Test Detection 

LambdaTest Test Intelligence platform is now live with flaky test detection to help you identify the flaky tests in your test suite. It provides you with a list of tests that are flaky and the reason behind the flakiness of the test. 

You can also view the history of the flaky tests and the number of times the test has failed in the past. This helps you to identify the flaky tests and fix them to improve the quality of your test suite.

Check the documentation - Flaky Test Detection with Test Intelligence.

LAMBDATEST TUNNEL

New Tunnel Flags for NTLM Authentication

LambdaTest Tunnel now offers support for NTLM authentication, a Microsoft-specific authentication mechanism used on IIS Servers. To use this feature, we've introduced two new flags: --ntlm-username and --ntlm-password.

REAL TIME TESTING

Test on the Latest iPhone 15 Simulators with iOS 17

You can now test your web and native mobile apps on the latest iPhone 15 Series running iOS 17. The available iPhone 15 Simulators include the following models: 

• iPhone 15
• iPhone 15 Pro, Pro Max
• iPhone 15 Plus 

INTEGRATIONS

LambdaTest Integration With Axosoft

LambdaTest now offers integration with Axosoft to enable the creation and management of bugs or issues directly from the LambdaTest platform.

To use this integration, visit the documentation - LambdaTest Integration With Axosoft.

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SmartUI

SmartUI CLI for Visual Regression Testing

We've just introduced a SmartUI CLI to make visual regression testing easier and more convenient for you. With this, you can now perform visual regression testing effortlessly right from your command line terminal.

It's easy to get started with SmartUI CLI -

1. Install the necessary dependencies.
2. Create a URL file.
3. Configure your project token.
4. Create and configure SmartUI config.
5. Execute the tests on the SmartUI cloud using CLI.

For more details, check the documentation SmartUI CLI.

Test Analytics

Get Test Case Insights in Test Analytics for HyperExecute

We have now added two new widgets in LambdaTest Analytics: the Test Cases Health Snapshot and the Test Cases View for HyperExecute. These widgets are designed to make it easier for you to dive into the details of your test execution at the individual test case level. 

With these features, you can now access in-depth information about the number and types of test cases. The best part is that you can customize these widgets and apply advanced filters to tailor your analysis according to your specific needs. It's all about giving you the tools to gain a deeper understanding of your test cases and their performance.  

Biometric Authentication for iOS

LambdaTest now supports biometric authentication on real devices for iOS 13 and above versions. With this new feature, you can test the biometric authentication functionality in your iOS apps to ensure that the app provides an optimal user experience on various iOS devices and platforms.

REAL TIME  BROWSER TESTING

The latest browser versions to enhance your cross browser testing capabilities are now live.

• Chrome 117 Beta, 116, 115
• Firefox 118 Beta, 117, 116
• Edge 117 Beta, 116, 115 
• Opera 102, 101, 100
• Brave 1.57, 1.56, 1.53

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APP Automation

Sharding for Espresso Testing

LambdaTest App Automation now supports running Espresso tests via HyperExecute on real devices. Using this feature, you can speed up your testing cycles by splitting the Espresso test cases into shards and running them in parallel to save time while running other Espresso tests.  

For more details, please refer to our support document - Sharding for Espresso.

HyperExecute

Background Services in HyperExecute

Background Services in HyperExecute serve as a functionality primarily employed for running extended-duration Application Servers. Triggering these background services can be achieved through background or backgroundDirectives attributе within thе HyperExecute YAML configuration filе.

Refer to our getting started guide - Background Services in HyperExecute.

SmartUI Testing 

SmartUI Testing for PDF Files

We now support visual regression testing of PDF files that intelligently analyzes the visual content and structure of a PDF document and perform tests to ensure its correctness, readability, and layout consistency.

To begin PDF testing, check out the documentation - SmartUI Testing for PDF Files.

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