May’24 Updates: Live With GitHub Copilot Extension, Accessibility Automation, and Much More!

At LambdaTest, we aim to empower developers and QA engineers with the latest features to help them in their day-to-day use cases, ensuring a seamless and efficient testing experience.

Last month, we had a host of exciting updates and new features to streamline your testing workflows. In May, we’re bringing the latest features across web and app automation, HyperExecute, SmartUI, real-time mobile app testing, and more!

Streamline Workflows With LambdaTest GitHub Copilot Extension

We have introduced the LambdaTest extension for GitHub Copilot. This extension transforms how developers and testers manage testing workflows within their IDEs, integrating seamlessly with GitHub and VS Code.

Key Features:

• Seamless Workflow Integration: Integrates test workflows within GitHub and VS Code, eliminating the need to switch between applications.
• AI-Powered Test Automation: Helps build test automation plans, generate testing framework capabilities, and query the LambdaTest knowledge base.
• Real-Time Feedback: Provides real-time feedback within the IDE, allowing for effective iteration and quick identification of issues.
• Robust Analytical Tools: Offers powerful analysis tools for informed decision-making and improved code quality.
• Test Execution Insights: Summarizes recent builds to provide project status and progress.
• User and Organization Management: Offers control over who can access the LambdaTest account.
• Knowledge Base Access: Quickly addresses queries regarding LambdaTest functionalities.

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Live With Accessibility Automation

LambdaTest has released Accessibility Automation, which helps you perform automated accessibility testing and find and fix accessibility issues on your website and web apps. This ensures everyone, including people with impairments, can use your website easily.

To automate your accessibility tests, you need to set the capability accessibility: true in your test script.

Once you run the test, our Accessibility Automation Dashboard will give detailed insights into your test executions.

To get started, check out the documentation: Accessibility Automation Testing.

Test on the Latest iPad Air and iPad Pro

LambdaTest has expanded its real device cloud offerings to include the latest iPad Air and Pro models for manual and automated app testing. This means you can now test your iOS apps on:

• iPad Air 11 and 13 (2024)
• iPad Pro 11 and 13 (2024)

With this new addition, you no longer need to rely on in-house device labs. You can run both manual and automated tests at scale on an online device farm to ensure your app provides a seamless user experience on these devices.

This helps developers and testers looking to streamline their testing process and ensure cross-device compatibility across the latest iPads.

Bonus addition: We have added the Regular Expression (RegEx) support for the platformVersion capability. There may be an instance where the exact platform version you choose isn’t available. This is where RegEx helps you to widen your search criteria to find any platform version that matches your requirements.

Live With Android 15 on Google Pixel 6 Pro

Are your web and mobile apps ready for Android 15?

With LambdaTest real device cloud, you can now perform mobile app testing on Android 15 on a real Google Pixel 6 Pro and ensure your web and native mobile apps are compatible with the latest Android 15.

Latest Add-Ons in SmartUI

In SmartUI, you can now test Figma designs using SmartUI CLI, annotate screenshots while performing SmartUI visual testing, and run visual tests using the Espresso framework.

• SmartUI Figma CLI: LambdaTest now offers you a SmartUI Figma CLI. This CLI lets you define Figma components within your configuration files and upload them to the SmartUI platform to identify visual discrepancies. Using SmartUI CLI to test Figma designs can reduce the pain points of intricate coding or complex setups and ensure an efficient workflow.



• SmartUI Annotation Tool: SmartUI now lets you provide the ability to annotate screenshots to highlight visual bugs with the Annotation tool. This helps you highlight key areas that need improvement.



Some key features of this SmartUI Annotation tool are drawing over screenshots, saving changes, the ability to update compared screenshots, drawing boxes, and much more.

• SmartUI Testing With Espresso: You can now level up your mobile visual testing. SmartUI now supports the Espresso framework for performing visual regression testing of Android applications across real Android devices.

HyperExecute: Enhance Reporting With Multi-Frameworks

In HyperExecute, you can now generate multiple reports from various frameworks for your job.
This feature enables you to:

• Get Insights Tailored to Each Framework: Quickly discern performance metrics and potential issues specific to each framework.
• Streamline Analysis: Focus on key results without navigating through a consolidated report. Delve into framework-specific particulars effortlessly and identify areas for enhancement efficiently.
• Improved View: Maintain a lucid and structured overview of your entire test suite. Separate reports offer a systematic view, facilitating tracking of each framework’s performance.

For more information, please refer to the documentation: HyperExecute Reports.

Web Automation: Latest Selenium Versions and Browsers

In Web Automation, we have released the new Selenium versions for automation testing and the latest browsers.

New Selenium Versions: 4.21.x and 4.20.x

New Browsers:

• Chrome 127 (Dev), 126 (Beta), 125, 124
• Firefox 127 (Dev & Beta), 126, 125, 124
• Edge 126 (Dev), 125 (Beta), 124
• Safari 17.4

Important: LambdaTest Data Center Expansion

To broaden our worldwide reach and provide a seamless experience, we have expanded our data center. As part of this process, we will add a new subnet for outbound IP addresses to our current list.

If you have already whitelisted LambdaTest’s outbound IP addresses for your use case, you need to update your whitelist to include the following extra IP subnet:

< 23.83.156.64/26 >

For more help, please reach out to us at support@lambdatest.com.

Salman Khan

Salman works as a Product Marketing Manager at LambdaTest. With over four years in the software testing domain, he brings a wealth of experience to his role of reviewing blogs, learning hubs, product updates, and documentation write-ups. Holding a Master’s degree (M.Tech) in Computer Science, Salman’s expertise extends to various areas including web development, software testing (including automation testing and mobile app testing), CSS, and more.

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