We now support the Playwright framework for automated web accessibility testing that allows you to integrate accessibility checks into your test suites. With Playwright accessibility automation, you can automate tests for issues like color contrast and missing ARIA attributes, ensuring your websites and web apps are more accessible. 

You can also run these tests on various browsers and devices using the LambdaTest platform, making it easier to identify and address accessibility issues.

Start Testing

We’ve added a new Smart Ignore feature in SmartUI to make visual testing smoother and more accurate, especially for dynamic, content-heavy software applications. This feature can distinguish between actual content changes and minor element shifts, reducing the false positives often found with pixel-by-pixel comparisons.

Here’s how Smart Ignore can help you:

• Avoid false positives by managing displacement differences.
• Reduce visual noise so you can focus on meaningful content changes.
• Apply it globally via Project Settings or per screenshot using the Diff Options dropdown.

Currently, we have released the Smart Ignore feature in beta. You can enable Smart Ignore for free by contacting our sales team. 

For more details, check out the guide on Smart Ignore in SmartUI.

Start Testing

Hey there 👋 

We’ve just rolled out some awesome new features in our AI-powered Test Manager that will streamline your test management game. Let's walk through what’s new:

• Tagging and Preconditions: You can now import and map tags and preconditions to your test cases, making it way easier to keep everything organized and efficient.
• API Enhancements: Managing test data is smoother than ever. With new POST and PUT API capabilities, you can easily send or update test data—perfect for automating those updates into your CI/CD pipeline.
• CSV Export: Need to export test cases for reporting or analysis? You can now export everything in CSV format, giving you the flexibility to handle your test data however you like.
• BDD Scenarios: Stay on top of your progress by viewing and updating the status of your BDD scenarios in builds. 
• Manual Test Execution Updates: You can now add remarks and even attach files directly during manual test execution, giving you extra clarity and context for each case.
• TestRail Integration: Using TestRail for test management? You can now directly import test case data from TestRail, making your migration super easy.

Start Testing

1. Cypress Detailed Command Logs for Enhanced Debugging New Release

Detailed Cypress Command Logs in HyperExecute generate an extensive, human-readable record of all Cypress commands and their corresponding results, both in the console and as a file. It helps narrow down test logs, making debugging and troubleshooting Cypress tests easier.

📕 Learn how to enable Detailed Command Logs for your Cypress tests.

2. Parameterized Report Email Handling in YAML Enhancement

HyperExecute now supports an enhanced approach for managing multiple email addresses within the YAML configuration file. Previously, you needed to define multiple variables for email addresses (${email1}, ${email2}, etc.). With this update, a single variable can now hold multiple email addresses, separated by commas or underscores, simplifying report sharing. This enhancement eliminates the need for multiple variables, making maintaining and modifying email configurations easier.

📕 Check the Reports documentation to learn more about it.

3. Browser and Selenium Updates for Linux, Windows, and macOS New Release

Updated the browser versions across multiple platforms and upgraded the Selenium jars. This ensures compatibility with the latest features and security updates, improving test stability across different environments.

The following updates are now live:

• Firefox: version 129.0
• Chrome: version 128.0
• Selenium Jars: version 4.24

Here are the latest features we have released in the Test Manager:

• Copy and Move Test Cases: You can now easily copy and move multiple test cases across folders and projects, simplifying test case organization and enhancing management efficiency.
• Link HyperExecute Tests: We've added support for linking HyperExecute tests with Test Cases for Selenium, Playwright, Puppeteer, and Cypress, allowing for smooth integration of automated tests within Test Manager.
• Expanded Custom Fields: Test Cases now support seven new custom field data types, including Dropdown (Single and Multi Select), Number, URL, Date, User, and Boolean (Checkbox), offering greater flexibility for data management.
• Enhanced CSV Import: Our CSV import functionality now allows you to directly import test steps, expected outcomes, and BDD scenarios, streamlining test case management by bringing in comprehensive details at once.
• Include Test Case IDs: You can now add Test Case IDs directly into your web automation script capabilities (e.g., "tms.tc_id": "TC-101"), linking automation runs to specific test cases and simplifying test management.

Start Testing

HyperExecute CLI added an enhancement to the --vars flag providing greater flexibility in specifying email addresses for report and artefact sharing. You can now use a variable to dynamically set the email address used to share reports or artefacts. This gives you more flexibility than hardcoding the email address in the YAML configuration file.

report: true
partialReports:
  location: target/surefire-reports/html
  type: html
  frameworkName: extent
  email:
      to:
        - "${email}"
        - "${email1}"

uploadArtifacts:
  - name: Reports 1
    path:
      - ProtractorTestReport.html
    email:
      to: 
        - "${email}"
        - "${email1}"

This is how you can pass the value of your email address via CLI by running the command

./hyperexecute --vars "email=xyz@abc.com" --vars "email1=abc@xyz.com"

📕 Read the documentation - How to dynamically set your email address? to learn more about it.

Start Testing

We’ve introduced Cypress support for accessibility automation, allowing you to integrate accessibility tests seamlessly into your Cypress test suites. You can now automate checks for issues like color contrast and missing ARIA attributes, helping to ensure your web applications are more accessible and compliant with standards.

Additionally, you can run these tests across various browsers and devices on the LambdaTest platform, making it easier to identify and address accessibility issues. 

Bonus addition: Besides this update, you can also automate tests using the latest Selenium version, 4.23.

Start Testing

We've enhanced the SmartUI CLI package by adding an image upload feature. This new feature allows you to upload images directly from a specified directory to SmartUI for visual testing.

It works similarly to our current API upload functionality but includes additional features, such as support for the Git branching strategy.

Key features of the SmartUI CLI for image upload:

• Image Support: Upload PNG, JPG, and JPEG images.
• Directory Upload: Easily upload images from a specified directory.
• Git Branching Strategy: Enhanced support for managing images in different branches.

Start Testing

Selenium Version Support Expanded

HyperExecute now supports Selenium versions 4.16 to 4.21. This update ensures broader options for test automation frameworks and provides access to the latest Selenium features.

Firefox Browser Updated 

To maintain browser compatibility and access the newest features, we've incorporated support for Firefox version 128. This update guarantees reliable testing on the latest Firefox releases.

Check out our new features in AI-powered Test Manager, including custom test configurations, automated Jira issue linking, project-level insights, enhanced BDD scenarios, and Cypress test management.

• Integrate LambdaTest Jira App: Manage your testing activities directly using the LambdaTest Jira app within your Jira workspace, enabling a unified workflow that reduces context switching and improves productivity.
• Custom Configurations for Test Plans: Create tailored configurations in test plans and builds for manual test executions.
• Streamlined Test Case Access: Easily access specific executions of a test case from within the execution history interface, enabling an end-to-end workflow.
• Automated Jira Issue Linking: For all Jira Issues raised within the Automation dashboard, issues will now be linked automatically to the associated test case in the Test Manager.
• Project-Level Insights: Gain project-level insights in the Test Manager, including test case insights, active build summaries, defects trends, and more.
• Enhanced BDD Scenario Creation: Improved BDD scenario creation for Selenium command logs through web automation.
• Manage Cypress Automated Tests: Access and manage Cypress automated tests.

Start Testing