AI testing assistant in your IDE
Test Companion is the test engineer’s AI assistant for everything test automation.
It understands your code and supports any test framework. Author, execute, debug, and heal functional, visual, accessibility, and other automated tests across both Web and Mobile applications without ever leaving the IDE.
Generate comprehensive test cases from PRDs, perform exploratory testing, generate automated UI and API tests, and debug and fix failing tests in a single workflow.
Test Companion in action!
Web Testing
Experience seamless web automation. Test Companion identifies elements, handles dynamic content, and executes cross-browser tests instantly.
Start testing immediately.
App Testing
Take your testing to real hardware. Test Companion supports native and hybrid mobile apps, interacting with real devices to ensure real-world reliability.
Start testing immediately on real iOS and Android devices.
Key Features
- Autonomous Testing Agent: Creates and edits files, runs commands, and uses the browser or real mobile devices for apps (with your permission).
- Intelligent Test Case Generation: Converts natural language requirements or exploratory insights into detailed test cases.
- Multi-Framework Automation: Works with Playwright, Cypress, WebdriverIO, Appium and more.
- Smart Debugging: Analyzes test failures and suggests actionable fixes.
- Proactive Test Maintenance: Helps keep tests up-to-date with code changes.
- Integrated Workflow: Connects seamlessly with BrowserStack Test Management and Test Reporting & Analytics.
Use Cases
Test Companion helps with all testing jobs across the software development lifecycle
Why use Test Companion?
Complete test automation workflow inside your IDE
- Built as a native IDE extension to author, execute, debug, and heal tests
- Flexible and framework-agnostic, works with Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, Appium and more
- Extension of your codebase and existing testing workflows
Specialised agentic capabilities purpose built for testing
- Create, automate, and maintain tests for UI, API, and functional flows directly from your IDE
- Analyze failures, identify the root cause, and apply code-level fixes automatically
- Simulate real user behavior with exploratory testing on web browsers and apps hosted on real devices to uncover hidden issues and improve coverage
- Test Companion automatically links test cases and runs to BrowserStack Test Management for unified tracking and reporting
- Run tests instantly on BrowserStack’s real device and browser cloud, combining local authoring speed with scalable test coverage
- Automatically pulls CI errors, logs, and screenshots from BrowserStack Test Reporting & Analytics. It identifies the cause of failure and suggests or applies fixes
Specialized AI Agents
Test Companion uses specialized agents for different testing tasks, broken into two categories:
1. Core (Persona-Based) Agents
- Tester: Helps with all standard testing tasks, from test case generation to automation.
- Dev Tester: Specifically helps developers to test code written.
2. Specialized Testing Agents
- Test Case Generator: Creates comprehensive test cases quickly from your documentation.
- Exploratory Testing: Creates comprehensive test cases by exploring your application URLs, pages, or mobile app screens.
- UI Test Generator: Generates runnable UI test scripts for Web or Native Mobile based on your test cases or user flows.
- API Test Generator: Generates runnable API test scripts based on your URL endpoints or documentation.
- Test Fixer: Finds the root cause and automatically stabilizes failing or flaky tests.
- A11y Fixer: Identifies and fixes accessibility issues in your web application.
Get Started with Test Companion
Setup & Customization
- Sign In to BrowserStack: Log in to instantly unlock intelligent testing, test case generation, and automation.
- Customize Your Companion: Tailor the AI's behavior and set common inputs to ensure all generated output perfectly fits your project standards.
- Using Rules: Custom rules guide AI output. Use them to enforce your organization’s standards or provide vital context about your workspace.
- Using Workflows: Save time by defining reusable setups. Avoid repeating basic inputs (e.g., URLs or credentials) by creating a lightweight custom workflow.
