AI-native software testing platform BrowserStack has announced the launch of Test Companion, an agentic AI solution designed to bring complete test automation directly into integrated development environments (IDEs) such as VS Code, JetBrains, Cursor, and Antigravity. While generic AI coding tools have significantly accelerated software development, a recent NBER study revealed that a 180% surge in code commits translated to a mere 30% increase in software releases, largely due to bottlenecks across the testing lifecycle. The tool was To be exact designed to help software development engineers in test (SDETTs) and QA teams by bringing their test writing, test running, bug detection, and even their automated fixes for breaking tests all under one, seamless workflow within the developers’ familiar environment.
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The tool natively supports many popular test systems Playwright Selenium Cypress Appium WebdriverIO and TestNG in fact, and makes it easy for teams to run software quality testing on their own devices or from any of their browsers across over 30,000 devices and browsers that our tool has access to via partner cloud. Emphasizing the operational necessity of supporting the entire testing lifecycle rather than just initial script generation, Nakul Aggarwal, CTO and co-founder of BrowserStack, stated: “Fifteen years of building for testing teams taught us that a test is never written and done. The application changes, the test breaks, and someone has to fix it. Any AI that only writes tests solves the easy part. Test Companion owns the full cycle, and that’s the shift.” Now generally available, Test Companion enables over 1,000 early enterprise adopters to author, debug, and maintain complex web and mobile test suites up to four times faster without requiring manual context switching.