Smart Crop for Visual Regression Testing using Appium

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. 

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Cropped Screenshot:

 📕 Read our blog to know more about the Smart Crop feature.

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Introducing the LambdaTest New Application Life Cycle Policy

Hey folks 👋 

In our ongoing effort to provide a seamless and efficient testing environment, we at LambdaTest are implementing a new Application Life Cycle Policy. 

As of 25th June 2023, any application uploaded to our platform will remain available for a duration of 90 days from the upload date. After this period, the application will be automatically deleted from our cloud.

This policy change aims to manage system resources more effectively, ensuring high performance for all end-users and customers. We recognize the importance of your applications in your testing processes. Therefore, we highly recommend maintaining local backups of your applications to prevent any disruptions to your workflows.

If you have any questions or concerns regarding this new policy, please feel free to reach out to our dedicated support team.

We appreciate your understanding and cooperation as we continue to improve our services to suit your needs better.

Unveiling AI-Powered Test Failure Analysis and Command Logs Status

Hey developers and testers 👋 

We are thrilled to introduce two game-changing features that will empower you to excel and stay ahead of your testing game. Check out below 👇 

AI-Powered Test Failure Analysis in HyperExecute 📈 

Now avoid the hassle of searching through multiple logs, analyze manual data, and investigate failed tests to find the root cause. Our AI-powered Test Failure Analysis helps you quickly identify failure types and resolve test failures. 

With our AI-Powered Test Failure Analysis, you can

  • Automatically structure and categorize errors for efficient resolution.
  • You can get RCAs, remediation steps, and additional suggestions for resolving failed tests in one place.
  • Streamlined bug fixes with significantly shorter resolution times.
  • Enhance the testing experience, increase productivity, and deliver high-quality software more quickly.

Command Log Analytics 📊 

Our test intelligence analytics platform has been enhanced to provide users with enhanced control over Selenium command logs. 

Here are some key features of Command Log Analytics:

  • The Command Log Error Categorization feature allows you to quickly identify issues with your tests that have been found with unique errors over time.
  • Using Command Logs Error Trends, you can monitor HTTP response statuses for commands triggered in browsers over time.
  • By analyzing Command Logs Type Trends, you can visualize endpoint usage and prioritize bug fixes.

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Live with New Widget: Job Queue Time Trends

Now visualize your job queue time in an easy-to-read time-series plot using the Job Queue Time Trends widget for HyperExecute. It enables you to see how much time each job spends in the queue before execution, giving you an overview of your testing pipeline's efficiency. 🕛

How this widget helps you?
  1. Identify bottlenecks: By monitoring your job queue time, you can quickly identify potential bottlenecks and take necessary actions to improve the efficiency of your testing pipeline.
  2. Optimize resource allocation: Understanding your job queue time helps you make informed decisions about resource allocation, ensuring that your testing infrastructure is used optimally.
  3. Improved collaboration: Share insights from the Job Queue Time Widget with your team members to foster collaboration and improve your testing processes.

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HyperExecute: New Features & Enhancements

Hey folks 😃 

The latest set of features for LambdaTest's HyperExecute is now live!

Test History  

HyperExecute now provides you with the history of a test case to give an important insight into the test case. You can easily figure out whether the failure in a test case is actually of value or has been failing frequently. 

Job Archiving  

Now you can archive jobs that are unimportant or maybe were aborted by your team. Archived jobs can be seen together in one place if you want to refer to them later.

Support for Appium  

HyperExecute now supports the Appium framework, allowing you to run Appium tests on real devices. With HyperExecute's agility and speed, you can streamline your testing processes and achieve superior results with ease. 

In addition, you can now distribute and execute your test cases in parallel on multiple devices, enabling faster and more efficient testing than ever before.

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Voices of Community: The New Tool On The Block Playwright

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 

Save Your Spot 👈 

Speakers 🎤 

  • 👤 Butch Mayhew - Head of Quality and Reliability, Tilled & Playwright Ambassador
  • 👤 Manoj Kumar - VP - DevRel and OSPO, LambdaTest

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.

Introducing the Newest Features in Visual Regression Testing

We have rolled out the latest additions to the LambdaTest Visual Regression Testing cloud to enhance the UI quality assurance process and help you catch visual bugs early. 💻 

Here are some of the key features:

Git Baseline Branching for Storybook Builds

We're introducing an intelligent Git-based baseline branching system that simplifies baseline build selection for your Storybook builds. This feature automatically selects the appropriate baseline build based on the code changes committed to Git. To help you track these changes, we're providing commit numbers and commit messages for your reference.

Key benefits:

  • Streamlined baseline build selection process.
  • Easy tracking of code changes and related builds.

Refer to our documentation: Git Branching Strategy in Smart UI.

✅ Storybook Static Build Support Enhancements

We've updated our NPM package to the version 1.1.4, which brings improvements to your Storybook static build support. This update allows you to compress your Storybook static folder and run stories across various browsers and resolutions specified in your .smartui.json configuration file.

Key benefits:

  • Improved compression of Storybook static folder.
  • Support for advanced web elements like iframes, external resources, and canvas elements.

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View App Profiling for Appium Tests

Looking to enhance your mobile app's performance? 🔍

LambdaTest' App Automation now supports App Profiling (Beta) for Appium Automation Tests.

Identify performance bottlenecks, and deliver a seamless mobile experience with comprehensive App Profiling metrics like CPU Consumption, Memory Consumption, Battery, Temperature, and more. 💻📈 

📕 Check out our support document to get started with App Profiling.

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Voices of Community: Clean Coding Practices for Test Automation (Part 2)

Join us on March 23rd, 2023, for the next episode of Voices of Community on Clean Coding Practices for Test Automation (Part 2) 📺 

🕛  9:00-10:30 AM EST | 6:30-8:00 PM IST

SAVE YOUR SPOT 👈 

 Speakers 🎤 

  • 👤 Sai Krishna - Lead Consultant, Thoughtworks
  • 👤 Srinivasan Sekar - Lead Consultant, Thoughtworks 

In this webinar, we will take up real-world scenarios to showcase clean coding practices for test automation. We will dissect existing test automation code, from identifying code smells to fixing them.

It is a continuation of our previous webinar on Clean Coding Practices for Test Automation.

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