--- title: BrowserStack Test Companion: Agentic AI for Test... description: A walkthrough demo of BrowserStack's Test Companion, an AI-driven test automation extension for VS Code and IntelliJ. It shows installing the extension,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/browserstack-test-companion-agentic-ai-for-test-automation-in-your-ide-jgv5p8zcz twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: BrowserStack Test Companion: Agentic AI for Test Automation in Your IDE | daily.dev og:description: A walkthrough demo of BrowserStack's Test Companion, an AI-driven test automation extension for VS Code and IntelliJ. It shows installing the extension,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/browserstack-test-companion-agentic-ai-for-test-automation-in-your-ide-jgv5p8zcz og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/jGV5P8ZCZ.png og:image:alt: BrowserStack Test Companion: Agentic AI for Test Automation in Your IDE og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # BrowserStack Test Companion: Agentic AI for Test Automation in Your IDE **[Execute Automation](https://daily.dev/sources/executeautomation)** · 12 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A walkthrough demo of BrowserStack's Test Companion, an AI-driven test automation extension for VS Code and IntelliJ. It shows installing the extension, signing into BrowserStack, and generating end-to-end tests from a URL with no existing test suite. The AI agent explores the app, asks for login credentials when needed, generates manual test cases across categories, then writes executable automated scripts in a chosen framework (Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, or WebDriverIO with various language bindings). Generated tests sync to BrowserStack's test management platform, where they can be executed across BrowserStack's 30,000+ real devices and browser/OS combinations. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What test automation frameworks can BrowserStack Test Companion generate tests for? BrowserStack Test Companion can generate test scripts using Playwright in JavaScript, TypeScript, or Python, as well as Cypress, WebDriverIO, or Selenium with Java. It lets the user choose the framework and language binding rather than restricting them to a single option like Playwright Python, which is common in other AI testing tools. _Compare AI test-generation tool options like this on daily.dev before locking into a testing stack._ ### How does BrowserStack Test Companion handle authentication credentials when generating tests automatically? The agent pauses exploration when it reaches an authenticated feature and explicitly asks the user to supply the username and password, or offers to skip that portion of testing if credentials aren't provided. Once given, it uses those credentials to continue exploring and testing the authenticated parts of the application. _Track how agentic testing tools handle credentials and auth flows via daily.dev._ ### Where can generated test cases from an AI testing agent be executed across different browsers and devices? Test cases generated by BrowserStack Test Companion sync into BrowserStack's test management platform, where they can be run on BrowserStack's real device cloud of over 30,000 devices, covering combinations of operating systems like Mac, Windows, and Linux with different real browsers, rather than being limited to a local machine. _Follow real-device cross-browser testing approaches like this on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [BrowserStack adds Visual Review Agent for web testing](https://daily.dev/posts/browserstack-adds-visual-review-agent-for-web-testing-fmt293zrr) · SD Times · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [StackConnect World Tour](https://daily.dev/posts/stackconnect-world-tour-kl6of4p8n) · Tech Lead Digest · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Agents can now verify your UI changes without leaving VS Code](https://daily.dev/posts/agents-can-now-verify-your-ui-changes-without-leaving-vs-code-1n91okjxh) · The Art of Simplicity · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [BrowserBook: The Browser Automation IDE](https://daily.dev/posts/browserbook-the-browser-automation-ide-1g8nhhxs2) · Product Hunt · 51 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#testing](https://daily.dev/tags/testing), [#ai-coding](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-coding), [#vscode](https://daily.dev/tags/vscode) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/browserstack-test-companion-agentic-ai-for-test-automation-in-your-ide-jgv5p8zcz) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"BrowserStack Test Companion: Agentic AI for Test Automation in Your IDE","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/browserstack-test-companion-agentic-ai-for-test-automation-in-your-ide-jgv5p8zcz","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/browserstack-test-companion-agentic-ai-for-test-automation-in-your-ide-jgv5p8zcz"},"datePublished":"2026-08-18T07:16:22.014Z","dateModified":"2026-09-14T06:05:37.534Z","description":"A walkthrough demo of BrowserStack's Test Companion, an AI-driven test automation extension for VS Code and IntelliJ. 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