Kobiton 4+ latest updates

Previously, the audio injection feature was introduced to automation sessions. With this release, audio injection is now available for manual sessions as well.

To inject audio, start a manual session on a device that has bluetooth audio enabled, then upload a supported audio file using the Audio Injection option under Media Injection and select Inject.

Devices that has bluetooth audio enabled have a microphone icon next to their name. You can also filter for bluetooth audio devices by choosing Audio → Supported in the search bar on the Device List.

For customers who require specific apps to persist between test sessions but need to enable a cleanup policy, we introduced an option to specify the bundle ID or package name to be exempted from cleanup. The new option is available when creating or editing a custom cleanup policy, and you can specify exact bundle ID/package name or use the wildcard character *. Example: com.example.SampleApp, com.example.*, org.*

We have reduced the necessary steps to improve the experience of SSO login via Kobiton Portal. The details are as followed:

For customers using our AI-Augmented testing (Scriptless), several major improvements were introduced to the test case management page:

Another feature intruduced for AI-Augmeneted testing (Scriptless) is the ability to trigger Appium Self-healing using an automation session as a baseline instead of a baseline manual session (introduced earlier). To use this feature, follow the below steps:

Several major improvements have been introduced to the Native Framework automation (XCUITest, UIAutomator, and Espresso):

Previously, we introduced changes to the NPC proxy setup flow for iOS/iPadOS that requires all devices hosted by a Mac mini to be supervised by a single supervision profile.

For customers who cannot follow this requirement due to multiple supervision profiles, we have re-introduced the old manual method of NPC proxy setup for iOS/iPadOS.

For Hybrid/On-Prem customers with hundreds of thousands of private devices (with many on the same OS) and high parallel manual sessions, devices near the top of the list are more likely to be picked than others causing high traffic on certain hosting machines and degrade their performance.

With this release, we introduced the Device shuffler feature to mitigate overuse of devices at the top of the list and help distribute load across Mac mini hosts. Devices of the same model/OS version are displayed in a shuffled order so users don’t see the same sequence. The shuffle occurs once per user; order remains consistent across logins and browser refreshes.