Product updates

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Features

• Support for setup and teardown steps.
• Hybrid selector mode for locators.
• New sidebar for the local app that shows all folders.
• New step to set headers
• New momentic list command for easier integration with CircleCI.
• Skipped tests are included in JUnit XML reports.
• New keydown and keyup steps.
• New step to wait for requests.
• New module search experience with multiple tabs.
• Clearer separation of global and local module configurations.
• Be able to copy environment variable paths and values.
• Table rows are now links.
• You can now view initial navigation in the test trace.
• Page and element check builder now supports syntax highlighting.
• Labels are included in Junit XML reports.
• Be able to duplicate modules in the local app.

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Bug fixes

• momentic import now supports importing a much larger volume of tests.
• Fix handling of zero opacity elements.
• Opening a test link directly in the local app no longer show’s an empty page.
• Ungrouping a module no longer causes duplicate id errors.
• Drastically improved local app performance and navigation speed.
• Search query is now debounced.
• Screenshots in test traces now display with the correct dimensions.
• Create and edit suite now paginates tests properly.
• Test options dialog now scrolls.
• Fixed option parsing for the CLI.

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Momentic 2.0

• Test results are now saved locally by default.
• Caching is now isolated per branch to prevent cross-branch cache contamination.
• Project configuration now supports feature flags, protected branches, new AI settings, and more browser controls.
• Chromium has been updated to the latest version, and Chrome for Testing is now supported.
• Read our v2.x migration guide for details on how to transition.

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Features

• Steps now appear in the module overview panel for easier inspection.
• Time zone and geolocation can be configured in test options to simulate various regions.
• Option to ignore href attributes in anchor tags.
• Option to invalidate cache when an element’s bounding box changes.
• Local app search now includes all tests and modules within nested directories and subdirectories.

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Bug fixes

• Improved handling of long page content to prevent selector errors on pages with a lot of HTML.
• Credits in the billing view now properly reflect additions and rollovers.
• Improved locators to distinguish between nearly identical elements.
• Tests now honor the configured retry count when screenshots fail to capture.
• Dropdowns with a large number of options are now scrollable.

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Features

• Improved accuracy of recording on lengthy sites.
• Switch tab now accepts template strings.
• Download HTML and Download A11y tree in the debug pane of the test editor.
• New CLI option to ignore autogenerated href attributes.
• Tests can now be duplicated directly from the app.

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Bug fixes

• React components that change classes no longer bust the cache.
• Failure recovery no longer removes Element Check if they fail during a test.
• Resolved an issue where scrolling in the browser preview or during Scroll steps did not match real-world behavior.
• Fixed an issue that would sometimes cause the usage breakdown graph in Billing to not populate.
• Changing the name of a module locally now updates the file name to match.
• Addressed a compatibility issue where PostHog introduced a breaking change affecting users with Node.js versions 20.19.0 or older. Pinned and shrinkwrapped PostHog to version 4.15.0 to prevent future failures.

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Features

• You can now upload files directly in Momentic. Use the File Upload step to upload files to your application during tests.
• New search for modules in the editor.
• Updated the repository’s tree structure to support arbitrary folder nesting, making it easier to organize your tests and modules.

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Bug fixes

• Uploading files larger than 5MB no longer causes a full-page error.
• Element check now supports empty strings.
• Assertions no longer cause elements to scroll into view.
• Tests will no longer auto-save if validation errors are present.
• Negative assertion results are no longer cached, ensuring accuracy.
• Resolved navigation errors between multiple run attempts.
• Local YAML test files will remain unchanged unless explicitly modified.

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Features

• AI action has improved reasoning and self-healing capabilities.
• Test runs with multiple attempts now allow viewing results for all attempts.
• Momentic now displays Git information for CLI-executed tests.

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Bug fixes

• Momentic now correctly sets MIME types for uploaded files.
• Fixed incorrect labeling of tests running on main branches as HEAD.
• Suite-level environments now correctly override individual test environments.
• Addressed an issue preventing removal or modification of scheduled tests.
• npx momentic queue test no longer queues disabled tests.

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Data retention policy updates

• Screenshots and stop-level details will be kept for 3 months.
• Run metadata will be kept for 6 months.
• Analytics will be available indefinitely.

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Features

• Analytics loads much faster and provides helpful insights to identify failing or flaky tests tests.
• You can now view suite analytics, which aggregates analytics for all tests in a suite.
• You can now view historical credit usage for suites and tests.
• There are now steps in the editor for copy and pasting to and from the clipboard.
• The editor now has a refresh button to refresh the page.
• New buttons in the editor to move a step to the top or bottom of the test.
• Suites now support setup and teardown.

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Bug fixes

• Enabled --headless=new on Chromium
• AI action now supports interpolated variables.
• Creating a new test when viewing a folder now adds it to that folder.
• Selecting more than 40 tests per page when creating suites no longer breaks the dialog.
• Test export now exports labels.
• Duplicated tests are now created in the same folder as the original.
• Accepting email invites no longer fails with 500 errors.

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Failure recovery (beta)

• Review proposed steps in the run viewer and apply them directly to tests stored on Cloud or your local machine through a CLI command.
• Can be enabled on a per-test basis or globally in organization settings.

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Test and suite cancellation

• Tests and suites running on Momentic Cloud can now be cancelled through the UI.

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Usage statistics

• You can now view usage statistics for your organization in settings.

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AI improvements

• We have developed a new v1 AI agents for locating elements and evaluating assertions that perform 17% better on our benchmarks.
• These agents should return more detailed thoughts and reasoning steps.
• We back-tested these agents extensively and followed a gradual rollout process in the last few weeks. v1 agents are now the default for all organizations.

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Bug fixes

• Fix a bug where the Page check assertions would fail because fetching the HTML took too long.
• Improve the exponential backoff algorithm for Page check assertions, which sometimes led to lengthy pauses.
• Improve execution logic when running an individual step within a module; if all sub-steps of a module have been ran individually, the module as a whole is marked as complete now.
• Fix the logic for the “run to end” button when running a cached module.
• Reduce memory and CPU usage caused by streaming browser screenshots.
• Bump the max number of tokens that can be generated by AI agents for AI check steps.
• Create a randomized test ID when importing a new test via ZIP file into the cloud app.
• Restore the feature of test auto-saving on load in the editor.
• Fix rare cases of the Chrome browser hanging indefinitely due to an underlying Chromium bug.

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New test tree view

• Click on a test in the tree view to view detailed information about the test. Including the steps, estimated credits, and included modules.
• Duplicate a test with a new name.
• Manually run tests against different environments.
• Delete a test directly from the tree view.
• Manage labels and suites directly from the test view.
• Schedule tests directly from the test view.
• Configure and customize notifications that you receive from Momentic. You can use variables and test data to make it more informative.

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Step updates

• Wait for URL now supports case insensitive matching and negative matching.
• AI check now support vision-only mode that is tuned for visual checks.
• A module can now be treated as a auth module. This will automatically save and restore the state of the module. Turn on “Treat as auth module” to enable this feature.
• You can now use XY coordinates to target elements. This is useful when you want to click on a specific part of the screen.
• Pressing keys now supports a delay between each key press. This is useful when you want to simulate typing.
• Empty string is a valid value for the Type step.

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Debug data

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Suites

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Reporting

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Knowledge base

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Performance

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Bug fixes

• Fixed a race condition when updating results.
• Locator redirection now works in shadow roots.
• Fixed concurrency issues with the Chromium browser in the CLI.
• Include IndexDB in saved and restored auth state.
• Updated mirror for stable channel Chrome.
• Improved table serialization.
• Updated File upload URL validation.
• Retry failed email requests.
• Fixed drag and drop.
• Scroll now wait for the scroll to complete.
• Updated the create suite dialogs to support >35 tests at a time.
• Don’t throw an error if a click times out after completion.
• Make sure ungrouped steps have new ids.
• Support Node 18 in the CLI.
• Search will now preserve folders when searching.