Feature drops

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July 2025

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2025-07-30

• JavaScript in page: New capability to execute JavaScript directly within web pages during testing
• Smoother autoplay in timelines: Enhanced autoplay functionality with restart capabilities
• Sequential typing delays: Improved typing simulation with proper delays for more realistic interactions

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2025-07-28

• Canvas transparency: Enhanced canvas handling with transparency settings that pierce shadow DOM
• Proxy improvements: Better localhost handling for debugging tools
• Multi-page CSS fixes: Resolved CSS issues for multi-page sites in snapshots

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2025-07-23

• Canvas transparency feature: Make canvases transparent for better visual testing
• JavaScript step editor: Improved linting capabilities for JavaScript step editor

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2025-07-21

• Live timeline control: Disabled live timeline during test discovery generation for better performance
• Stop button enhancement: Improved stop button functionality for better user control
• Locator button improvements: Enhanced locator button with better usability
• Consistent UI elements: Standardized readonly prompts and back buttons across new test case panels
• OpenAI sandbox integration: Added OpenAI to sandbox whitelist for enhanced AI capabilities

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2025-07-15

• Automagically code workspace: Enhanced workspace functionality for automated code generation and management

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2025-07-14

• Scroll step: New step type to scroll the page to specific elements or positions
• UI improvements: Streamlined interface with removal of superfluous buttons and colors
• Simplified test case view: Removed subtitles in TestCase fullscreen header for cleaner display

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2025-07-10

• Drag and drop enhancements: Added target locator button to recorder for easier drag and drop operations
• Validation flow improvement: Added button to continue to validation for smoother testing workflow

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2025-07-08

• Chat UI improvements: Swapped assistant background color in chat bubbles for better readability
• Success celebration: Added confetti animation for successful test discovery
• Timeline enhancements: Improved timeline visualization with centered layouts and better color coding
• Drag and drop highlighter: Added visual highlighting for drag and drop operations
• Take over during chat: Enabled take over functionality during chat interactions
• Compare flow improvements: Enhanced test comparison functionality

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2025-07-03

• Direct create more: Streamlined process for creating additional tests
• UI refinements: Updated accordions, infoboxes, and timeline radius for improved user experience

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June 2025

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2025-06-26

• Style improvements: Removed stickiness of sidebar for better navigation
• Improved variables: Used variables from discovery are now automatically included
• Input environment variables: Added support for environment variables in interaction agent

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2025-06-24

• Agent chat improvements: Enhanced chat interface for better agent interaction
• Test case validation: Improved validation flow with better UI feedback

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2025-06-17

• API enhancements: Added discovery to test case response for better integration
• Chat components: New OctoChatInput and OctoChatBubble components for improved chat experience
• Info box variants: Extended OctoInfoBox with additional variants for better information display

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2025-06-16

• Agent chat: New chat interface for interacting with the AI agent
• Full screen discovery improvements: Enhanced scrolling for test case generation/validation page
• Discovery buttons: Reworked ongoing discovery buttons for better user experience

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2025-06-11

• Discovery with type on external API
• Chat UI improvements
• $OCTO_STABLE_RANDOM_CHARACTERS variable for stable random strings
• Code and config available in external API
• MCP loop logic and streaming MCP loop
• Full screen regenerate and auto-open if not acknowledged
• Discovery UI: available buttons and new bottom bar
• Restyled repair and go to test case button in discovery

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2025-06-05

• Angular CDK drag and drop workaround
• Open snapshot in new tab
• Extract attribute step for test cases

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2025-06-03

• Full Screen Discovery: Enhanced AI test discovery experience with full screen mode for better visibility and interaction
• Drag and Drop Options: New interaction configuration options for drag and drop operations, providing more flexibility in test creation

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2025-06-02

• Lightbox for prerequisite content in new test case panel

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May 2025

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2025-05-27

• Test Recommendations: Intelligent test recommendations that suggest critical test cases based on your application
• Recommended Tests: System now provides smart suggestions for tests that should be created for your application

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2025-05-22

• Email Subaddress Validation: Improved validation for email subaddresses, ensuring proper format and handling

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2025-05-20

• New Test Case Panel: Redesigned test case panel for improved usability and workflow
• Project Overview Improvements: Reworked project overview and test case list cards for better visualization

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2025-05-12

• Unfold steps in recorder preplay: Improved visibility of steps during recording playback
• Speed improvements: Faster autofix, proposal generation, test reports, and error classification jobs
• Extended test case API endpoints: Additional endpoints for better test case management

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2025-05-07

• Live validation in Kubernetes: Enhanced validation capabilities in Kubernetes environments
• Error details for failed live recording steps: Better error reporting for recording failures

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2025-05-06

• Wait for step: New step type to explicitly wait for elements or conditions with feature flag support
• Improved recorder picker: Enhanced element selection in the recorder
• Auto-refresh on rectangle change: Recorder now automatically refreshes when element positions change

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April 2025

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2025-04-14

• Co-creation with the Agent - record from here: Select a step and record from that point on, discarding everything after the selected step. Also works when the agent fails before creating any steps.

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2025-04-02

• new Octomind MCP server. See mcp for details. You can easily integrate it with your agent like Cursor or Claude Desktop.

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March 2025

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2025-03-30

• Email flow: test email flows to sign in, forgot password flow and more. See email flows
• Predefined variable added: $OCTO_EMAIL for testing email flows
• New extract value step that allows you to extract values from the page and store them in a dynamic variable

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2025-03-26

• New test case overview with all runs visible in one place
  

  new test case overview with all runs visible in one place, 03/2025

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2025-03-18

• unfolded dependendcies: after each run, we automatically unfold dependencies in test report detail making it easy to spot the issue.

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2025-03-17

• interactive repair mode: Help the AI agent finish test discovery in an interactive step-by-step repair mode

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2025-03-12

• Test managment integration - we integrate with TestRail or other test management solutions now
• Traces for retries - we now provide all traces, allowing you to compare both runs and better understand the failure

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2025-03-06

• Tags: you can filter test cases by tags now from search

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2025-03-04

• test failure classification - we automatically analyze each failed test case and classifies it into four common error categories now

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February 2025

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2025-02-25

• UI: new project preferences view in environments settings

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2025-02-18

• Agent upgrade: The agent identifies hover interactions and acts accordingly when discovering and generating test cases when you prompt it to
• HTTP websites: you can submit a http:// site as a test target when creating a new project.
• Tags: You can filter and shard test execution, available via CI/CD and curl

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2025-02-17

• revamped test case overview UI
• split view width in test detail is user-defined now

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2025-02-13

• GOTO: Use the go to URL step in your test case when editing
• We added the Playwright type characters step to support rich text editors for fields with custom keyboard event handling.
• global step timeout: to shorten the timeout between steps if you want to run the tests faster

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2025-02-10

• The execution path of a test case is editable now. Because we do typos, and we know you do, too.
• Tags: We added customizable tags to test cases.

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2025-02-04

• AI Agent can work with contain text assertion now when discovering and generating test cases.

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January 2025

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2025-01-30

• New assertion types: We added contain text and have style into the visual editor
• improved searching for test cases
• Recorded test cases can be enhanced with an editable prompt

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2025-01-28

• Test ID attribute: If you do use your own test ID attribute, you can configure it now in the settings, so the Agent can make use of it.
• New assertion types: We added checked and unchecked into the visual editor

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2025-01-23

• Custom headers: We support Playwright extraHTTPHeaders. Depending on your service, you might want to use custom headers to disable bot protection or trigger app specific behavior, e.g. to bypass a CAPTCHA for testing purposes.

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2025-01-15

• New drag'n'drop interaction type is now available in the visual editor
• New hover interaction type is now available in the visual editor
• Variables can be used in entry path url (where the test case starts) - refer to a variable in the test target URL using $
• Arbitrary keys are now available in press key interaction
  

  record an arbitrary key, 01/2025
• Exclude test cases from running per environment - go to test case overview and unselect environment

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2025-01-07

• New environments page
• Environment-specific variables: you can assign variables specific to an environment now
• improved url check on project creation / test case execution

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December 2024

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2024-12-20

• new test timeline in test case overview with replay controls and interaction annotations

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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

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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.

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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

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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.

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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 depend on other test cases (when executed).
• Private Location Worker: If you want to test a web app 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.

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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.

• 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

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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: