Feature drops

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December 2024

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2024-12-12

• AI Agent upgrade, now it:

1. considers multi-media sources in content extraction
2. supports transparent checkboxes
3. can handle dropdowns and checkboxes that close on scroll by

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2024-12-09

• File upload: new step to upload a file from a url

• Auto fix: the first version (beta) of test auto-maintenance feature

  Agent auto-fix in beta version, 12/2024

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2024-12-05

• ‘Show latest test result’ display (e.g. from failed run) added to the test case view
• Improved OTP setup

• Create new test from here - a new option to expand your test suite with AI. Lets you prompt the Agent for a custom test with the originating test case as dependency.

  'create new test from here' button, 12/2024

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November 2024

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2024-11-20

• Folders view - organize your test cases in custom folders now

• Basic authentication: you can configure username and password for basic auth protected test targets

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2024-11-14

• AI agent: we teach the agent to notice if it got stuck in a loop and abort.

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2024-11-12

• Shared authentication state: when you run the Octomind test suite now, we log in just once. All tests using the login as dependency share the auth state.

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2024-11-07

• Visual locator picker tracks animated elements correctly in snapshots

  correct tracking of animated elements, 11/2024

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2024-11-06

• new external api for retrieving test reports
• debugtopus (local runner) is now environment aware

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2024-11-04

• Native support for OTP: We support logins that require a 2nd factor using a one-time-password (OTP). Configurable in settings and works for local execution as well.

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October 2024

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2024-10-28

• We support multiple environments with separate test accounts, URL and OTP settings now. A structured way to isolate configurations for different deployments and customize testing settings specific to each deployment.

  multiple environments, 11/2024

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2024-10-24

• Longer retention of snapshots. We will retain your snapshots for 6 instead of 2 weeks.

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2024-10-17

• New API endpoint for blocking pipeline. When integrated to CI, it can block the pipeline by polling the resulting test report until the status is ‘PASSED’ with a call to the test report API.
• Multi select for step deletion
• New hotkeys for navigating and deleting of steps

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2024-10-07

• new pro plan: for unlimited projects, test plans and use of our AI features, you can now upgrade to our pro plan.

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September 2024

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2024-09-24

• Test Report Overview: test reports have a new home now: the test report overview. Here you can see past test reports, start off new test reports and schedule them.

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2024-09-12

• Dependency View: There’s a new way to see your test cases: the dependency view! Now you can visually grasp which test cases cases depend on other test cases (when executed).
• Private Location Worker: If you want to test a webapp that is not publicly available, we have something ready for you: private location worker

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2024-09-04

• Editing - We added force click and right click interactions to the visual locator picker.
• Snapshots are faster now, showcasing the correct website when editing test steps and correctly displayed.
• Upgraded security
• AI agents - Whenever you send off the agents discovering tests and generating test steps you will get an interactive insight into their progress.

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August 2024

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2024-08-26

• AI agents - A new agent is specialized in assessing the purpose of a web page. You can rate the agent’s description and give it a 👍 or a 👎
• Suggest more tests feature got an upgrade. The suggested tests discovered by the AI agent are more meaningful and less redundant.

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2024-08-19

• What's new - We have caught up with the gift notifications for our new shiny stuff. You will get new feature notifications 🎁 as they are shipped, dynamically.

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2024-08-13

• AI Agents - improved world view

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2024-08-09

• UI tweak for first time users: Test result details of user’s first test run are visible directly in project overview.

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2024-08-08

• Save & run: New button to run and save an edited test case at once. You can click on the run only button if you want to validate the test first before saving it.

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2024-08-06

• AI suggesting more tests: Similar to the AI discovery at set-up, we expanded the AI discovery feature to “spawn” more test cases.

• Open status for new test cases: In order to mark test cases coming out of suggest more as new (until you’ve opened them for the first time), we introduced a new column open status .

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2024-08-05

• Speed is important. We sped up loading times on test cases overviews.
• AI agent can scroll now: improved scrolling behavior of our AI agents when exploring elements increasing its success rate

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July 2024

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2024-07-29

• Draftless editing: No more draft state of a test case. Just open the test case and save your changes.

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2024-07-23

• Guidance through card focus: We highlight the sections of our app to gently guide you to your first test report.
• AI agent progress indicator: We reintroduced the progress bar and updated it. At any given moment, you’ll have an idea what the agent is doing.

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2024-07-18

• Copy paste test steps: Use Ctrl+C Ctrl+V keystrokes (cmd+c cmd+v for mac users) to copy paste test steps within the same test or from other test cases.

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2024-07-16

• Faster AI Agent: Natural scrolling when extracting web elements and checking for visibility took up 20% of the whole test generation process. We made it faster.

• Test case filters: You can filter your tests based on the test statuses, now.

  test case filters, 07/2024

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2024-07-11

• Automatic login and cookie banner tests at sign-up. When you sign up to Octomind or create new project (add a new URL):

1. AI agent goes through your site and checks for cookie banners.
2. If a cookie banner is present, it creates a cookie banner test.
3. AI agent checks if you have a login at your site.
4. If you do, it asks you for test credentials.
5. You give it your test credentials.
6. AI agent auto-generates a login test.
7. The cookie and the login tests will be populated into all new auto-generated tests as dependencies.

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2024-07-04

• Mobile + tablet use: Test case editing works better on smaller screens now.

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2024-07-01

• Agent benchmark automation: Every major change in the codebase impacts the AI agent performance. We get an automated ping whether the agent does what it’s supposed to do, now.

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June 2024

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2024-06-27

• Variable templates: We fill more robust variable templates into the test when your test steps are auto-generated. Learn more.
• Shadow DOM & iFrames: It looks like we figured out how to handle them. Until you serve us the next 100 edge cases.

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2024-06-24

• New project overview: Your project homepage has a new overview layout. We aimed for a less cluttered design while keeping the flexibility and all features at hand.

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2024-06-20

• We merged and simplified test case view. Bye bye, way too many tabs.
  merged test case view, screenshot 06/2024

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2024-06-17

• shadow DOM and iFrames - the AI agent can handle most shadow DOMs and iFrames now

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2024-06-13

• We mark broken locators now. A yellow highlight and an indicator will point to the locator that doesn’t do the thing it’s supposed to.
  screen recording of a broken locator being pinpointed, 06/2024

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2024-06-10

• We removed automatically generated link tests. We generated too many link tests on dynamic elements that broke constantly. We will come back with a better solution.

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2024-06-05

• We add dependencies automatically now. We now add a cookie banner test as dependency automatically. We will be adding more common dependencies in the future.
• less obstructive test editing - interaction and assertion types can be switched now

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2024-06-04

• AI discovery: Instead of just giving you proposals for test cases, we now generate steps and validate the proposed test cases automatically. Tests we feel confident about are published to your test suite automatically.

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May 2024

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2024-05-27

• improved AI discovery - delivers more functional and less reachability-focused tests. The AI agent will also suggest less functionally similar tests.

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2024-05-23

• most of LangChain has been removed from our stack. Learn why we no longer use it to build our AI agents.
• we support nested iFrames in snapshots now
• steps editing - we added drag and drop for changing order
• AI agent can handle elements with never ending animations and invisible input forms now, like password fields, checkboxes or radio boxes

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2024-05-15

• reduced test flakiness through improved timeout logic.

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2024-05-08

• streaming AI Agent indicators: At any given moment, you’ll know what the agent is doing during discovery or when it’s running in drafts. No more staring at a spinning circle ⭕️ wondering when it will finish.
• improved UX for step deletion
• improved world model of the AI agent: its ability to understand context and derive the correct actions

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2024-05-03

• hotkeys added for editing test steps help you navigate between steps using arrow keys
• test case grouping: We will group your test cases. We started with the “link tests” category and will add more soon.
• status icons for test cases and step results
• AI agent can handle SVG elements like images and icons now
• duplicate navigation fixed: We reduced the frequency in which agents get stuck in loops.

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April 2024

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2024-04-23

• AI agent: We are extracting all accessibility attributes to improve its performance.

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2024-04-18

• AI agent: vision added to current agent state

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2024-04-15

• in-app & email notifications: we will let you know in the app once your test run has finished or our AI agent completed its discovery. We will ONLY send you an email if your test report is red 🔴
• scheduling test reports: We are now enabling you run your test reports on a fixed schedule (daily/ weekly/ bi-weekly). There’s even email notifications now for when your scheduled run failed so you never miss a beat bug.
  screen recording 04/2024

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2024-04-08

• snapshots for picking locators: Not familiar with selectors and DOM elements? We got you covered! Test case steps now allow you to select elements in your page visually, both for interacting with them and asserting that they are there.

  screen recording 04/2024

• reworked publish workflow: whenever you save a draft of a test case, you get the option to publish it to include it in future test report runs

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2024-04-02

• expandable step editing: the panel for editing test case steps now expands and gives you more space to make changes to your test cases

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February 2024

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2024-02-23

• improved stability: made sure our app is running smoothly without hick-ups even with multiple test report running in parallel. Now our agent and test execution are serverless.
• discover test cases: our AI Agent will analyse your webpage and suggest multiple prompts

• approval workflow: once our AI Agent has finished the discovery, you have an option to approve or discard the provided suggestions. Discarding will delete the draft, while approval will start our AI Agent with the corresponding prompt

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2024-02-15

• test report generation speed up : we are now running published test cases within a report in parallel
• auto fix: you can now select which test cases our AI Agent should try to auto fix once they fail

• save button for test case draft overhaul:

  we replaced the save rail with multiple buttons that were hidden in a separate screen. Now we have 3 separate buttons

  1. save button: to save changes made
  2. run button: to run the selected test case
  3. publish button

  The run button is also visible on published test cases

  screenshot 02/2024

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2024-02-01

• Add a new project to your organization added for more flexibility of managing your account

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January 2024

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2024-01-26

• Manual test creation: We have added a low-code option to generate new tests if AI generation struggles. With increasing performance, our AI agent will do more and more of the heavy lifting. In the meantime, you can easily create a specific test case with a few clicks & adding selectors.

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2024-01-24

• Get rid off the test that doesn’t spark joy. You can hard delete drafts now.

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2024-01-22

• Onboarding: We want to give our users a smooth beginner experience. That is why we added an onboarding tour and helpful tooltips to make your journey of discovering all Octomind features a breeze.

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2024-01-11

• We have streamlived cookie consent management throughout all our subdomains. A cookie consent banner displays when coming to our sites for the first time. Is it annoying? It is. Is it necessary? It is.

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2024-01-08

• Test draft validation: now, you can validate test draft before publishing telling you if the test works properly

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2024-01-03

• You can add new steps to draft test cases now
• Element highlighter: Element that was interacted with is highlighted by a purple dot in test step screenshots

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December 2023

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2023-12-18

• Fixed: Sometimes some of our test runs got stuck, we improved this and no stuck tests should occur anymore.
• Selector editing: You can now edit Playwright selectors used to find the element in question for a step

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2023-12-13

• Delete steps option in a test case draft added
• Idle AI agent: our agent will let you know if it’s idle and waiting for more input

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2023-12-11

• You can edit test cases, now. Mark steps as optional, so their failure is ignored. Adjust text parameters for steps entering text or selecting a menu item. You can create test case drafts and publish them.

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November 2023

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2023-11-30

• We’ve added better desciptions to test steps our AI agent generated
• AI agent informs users about test case discoveries in progress

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2023-11-27

• What's new modal notification after log-in added

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2023-11-14

• Debugtopus dialog: The execution url is pre-filled by default, no need to copy paste
• Test hosting: Run all test cases from the tool OR your terminal
• Human feedback added to the AI agent by relaunching the test case discovery based on user comments

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2023-11-09

• In-context screenshots of executed steps visibile directly in test report details
• Screenshot carousel added to review executed test steps, screenshot by screenshot

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2023-11-07

• AI discovery improved: AI agent sees all elements on the page to generate better assertions

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October 2023

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2023-10-31

• CI integrations: Previous comments with test results are collapsed by default, click to expand

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2023-10-17

• Chain test cases functionality for new AI agent discoveries added to UI
• AI Agent: improved handling of blocking overlays
• UI: improved UX when switching between test targets and organizations
• UI: progress bar for running test reports in project overview

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2023-10-16

• Major AI agent revamp:
  • Improved page content understanding
  • Fused element representation by forms
  • Analytics added to embedding generation
• Welcome modal for new users

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2023-10-10

• Instroduction of stable IDs for an improved AI discovery
• Choose your first tests selection at set-up added
• Improved manual triggering of test reports

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2023-10-05

• AI Agent and initial test generation upgrade - improved element visibility

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2023-10-03

• Improved UX of the overview page and test report order at set-up

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September 2023

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2023-09-26

• Tooltips added to improve app onboarding experience
• Test cases can be deleted now
• Restart test report functionality added
• New feedback option added: Thumbs up/down of your onboarding experience

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2023-09-20

UI Improvements:

• Improve layout of overview grid and test report header on mobile

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2023-09-19

Features:

• Display error log for failed tests in the test result detail

UI Improvements:

• Responsiveness on mobile for snackbars
• Remove UI flashing on initial load

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2023-09-18

Features:

• You can now manually create a test case from a failed discovery. This is useful when the discovery failed, but the generated steps are still useful. An example would be when the agent can not verify the success of the task, but it actually succeeded. This is only available for new discoveries.
• Add modal allowing the user to give feedback to octomind

UI Improvements:

• Settings dialog looks better on mobile
• Recording upload is more intuitive

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2023-09-14

Features:

• Test case discoveries now have traces, so you can see what the agent did in the playwright trace viewer

UI Improvements:

• Planned steps within a test case are now expandable
• Introduce larger settings modal

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2023-09-11

• Workaround for browser extensions that modify the html document and cause issues when displaying our page

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2023-09-08

• Follow links test case on initial set-up added
• Sidebar navigation added

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August 2023

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2023-08-28

• New test case on sign-up added: Change language of the website
• AI discovered test cases will now have an assertion generated (if possible)

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2023-08-25

• Alpha release - Test recorder as a non-AI option to generate new test cases
• Security update
• AI agent upgrade - supported interactions, input error correction and analytics expanded
• Give feedback functionality added - schedule a feedback session with us directly from the app

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2023-08-14

• Welcome page mobile view improved
• Test recorder supports iframes now
• Error states for failed discoveries streamlined
• Alpha release - free prompting interface for test case discovery:

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2023-08-10

• Captain Ink (AI agent) upgrade - page injection replaced navigating to a page for more stability and speed
• We introduced a basic test case available for everyone
• New welcome screen UX:

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2023-08-09

• Interactible DIVs are correctly detected during discovery
• Display test failure reasons in test overview

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2023-08-07

• Bug fix - errored display for empty list of test reports
• Cookie tracking removed from the app. We did’t like them anyways.
• Test database introduced - collection of test cases displayed on the app welcome page: