Hey Folks 👋
Give wings to your mobile automation career with our newly launched Appium 101 certification.
Now showcase your skill in Appium testing on a real device cloud and stay one step ahead of the competition.
Hey Folks 👋
Give wings to your mobile automation career with our newly launched Appium 101 certification.
Now showcase your skill in Appium testing on a real device cloud and stay one step ahead of the competition.
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.
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.
Smart UI
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
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:
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.
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 -
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.
APP Automation REAL TIME APP TESTINGBiometric 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.
Our team is excited to announce the new features and enhancements to LambdaTest's SmartUI and Analytics Platform. Let's take a look at them.
SmartUI
Test on Edge Browser 🌐
SmartUI now supports Edge browser in addition to other supported browsers such as Chrome, Firefox, and more. Using Storybook, you can test your software application's UI components on the Edge browser to ensure they function and render perfectly.
Capture Full Page Screenshots with Auto-Height Detection 📷
Earlier A/B testing of images with SmartUI requires you to take full-page screenshots to make more informed decisions. In addition, capturing full-page screenshots in Storybook also requires manual configuration of the page height.
With the Auto Height Detection feature, now you can capture full-page screenshots by automatically detecting and adjusting the page height and avoid the hassle of manually specifying the height parameter in the configuration file.
Integration of GitHub App with Playwright 🔁
SmartUI now integrates the GitHub App with Playwright, allowing you to link your GitHub repositories directly to your LambdaTest's SmartUI accounts.
With SmartUI, you and your teams can easily share test scripts, review changes, and provide feedback within their GitHub repositories. With any CI tool on GitHub, you can get information about the status of visual regression builds and pull and push requests.
Analytics
LambdaTest Test Analytics Templates 📰
With the new Test Analytics Templates, you can now access pre-built templates that provide comprehensive insight into your test results, making it easier to analyze and interpret the information.
These templates provide a structured framework for the presentation of test analytics, allowing you to customize and visualize their data in a visual and meaningful manner. You and your teams can save time and effort by leveraging these templates instead of creating test reports from scratch.
With SmartUI's new real-device mobile notification status bar crop feature, you can take your Appium visual regression testing workflows to the next level.
By using Smart Crop, you can crop out the status bar from screenshots and focus solely on the core UI elements during visual comparisons.
SmartUI leverages machine learning algorithms to detect and crop the status bar from screenshots accurately. This allows you to concentrate solely on the important UI elements by excluding them from visual comparisons.
Original Screenshot:
Cropped Screenshot:
📕 Read our blog to know more about the Smart Crop feature.
Join us on April 26th, 2023, for the next episode of Voices of Community on The 'New Tool On The Block' Playwright 📺
🕛 8:30 - 9:30 PM IST | 11:00 - 12:00 PM EST
Speakers 🎤
In this episode of Voices of Community, Butch Mayhew shares his learning journey in building automated tests with Playwright, how to leverage it in CI/CD pipelines, top features of Playwright, and more.
RELEASE VERSION: 1.105
You can now filter through your screenshots while running Smart UI tests on HyperExecute. The filter allows you to toggle through the screenshots on the basis of their status, such as Approved
or Changes Found
.