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08 Jul 2026.
Today we’re introducing the Stb-tester Agentic API: an
MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that lets AI coding assistants — Claude
Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and others — develop and debug your Page Objects
for you. It closes the loop on page object development and debugging and will
become more and more powerful over time, as we expose more of our features
through the Agentic API and as AI assistants become more capable.
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16 Apr 2026.
UVQ is a no-reference perceptual video-quality assessment model developed by
Google Research / YouTube.
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09 Mar 2026.
The “Manual control” interface of the Stb-tester Portal now supports using ADB
to control Android devices; and the Stb-tester Node hardware now supports ADB
over USB.
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09 Jul 2025.
Stb-tester will be exhibiting for the first time at the IBC tradeshow in
Amsterdam, 12-15 September 2025.
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19 May 2025.
Before today, to detect which page of the application is currently visible,
your test script would use Stb-tester APIs such as image-matching to detect
a particular reference image; but when the page is very dynamic, this can be
difficult to do. Stb-tester has a new AI that can be trained to recognize each
page of your application-under-test. Watch this video to see how it works:
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10 Dec 2024.
You can now record a video of a manual testing session, including all the logs
from the device-under-test that you usually expect when using Stb-tester.
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20 Jun 2024.
Stb-tester’s Object Repository is a tool for faster development & debugging
of your “Page Object” Python code. Today we have released significant
performance & usability improvements to make this tool better suited for very
large code-bases.
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04 Mar 2024.
Last December our company turned 10 years old. Since founding our company 10
years ago, we have grown from a services-focused company in the first 2 years,
to a primarily product-based company since 2016 with uninterrupted year-on-year
sales growth and customers in 4 continents. In 2023 we had our best year yet,
with sales up 50% compared to the previous year, and headcount up 25%.
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29 Feb 2024.
Today we have released Stb-tester’s new “Smart Navigation” functions
stbt.navigate_1d and stbt.navigate_grid. These functions will
autonomously navigate your application’s UI, learning the structure of your
menus to speed up future invocations. These are the first of many Machine
Learning / AI features on Stb-tester’s roadmap; we think you’ll agree that these
new APIs will greatly simplify and speed up your test development.
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19 Jul 2023.
Stb-tester now supports the TP-Link “Kasa” brand of smart plugs. This rounds
out Stb-tester’s already impressive support for a wide range of
network-controlled Power Distribution Unit (PDU) models from ATEN, Aviosys,
Lindy, PDUeX, and Rittal, which allows you to power-cycle the device-under-test
from your test scripts.
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14 Jun 2023.
Version 34 of Stb-tester’s “stbt” Python API is now available. This release
makes important improvements to the motion-detection algorithm of
stbt.wait_for_motion and stbt.press_and_wait, born from our personal
experience of writing & maintaining tests for Apple TV, DirecTV, Fire TV, Sky,
and Xfinity devices over the last 4 years.
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08 Nov 2022.
With the pytest support introduced in Stb-tester v33, you can use
pytest-bdd to run Stb-tester from BDD specifications (also known as
“Gherkin” syntax, or “Given/When/Then” acceptance criteria).
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03 Nov 2022.
Stb-tester v33 supports running your tests with pytest, a popular Python
test-runner. Pytest provides powerful functionality such as assertion
introspection and fixtures.
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14 Feb 2022.
When you push a git commit, Stb-tester uses any idle Node in your test-farm to
run a “lint” check using Pylint to catch common mistakes in your code before
you even run a test.
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13 Dec 2021.
The "manual control" role allows users to control devices-under-test
remotely, and see live video from the devices, without access to the test
scripts in the test-pack git repository. This allows you to grant access to
a third party without letting them see the test scripts you have developed
which are your own intellectual property.
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01 Oct 2021.
If you started getting errors today when accessing the REST API on your
Stb-tester Portal (either directly using curl or python requests, or using
our stbt_rig.py command-line tool) then read on for the solution.
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07 Sep 2021.
2021 has been a busy year for us, with major new features implemented to
support specific customers’ requirements: Prometheus and Grafana dashboards
for logging and reporting performance measurements and other real-time metrics;
support for some Bluetooth and RF4CE remote controls via RedRat-X hardware;
an interactive log viewer with frame-accurate synchronisation between each
log line and the video recording of the test-run; and a new test-farm
administration page.
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24 Dec 2020.
The Stb-tester Portal shows live video from the device-under-test, right in
your web browser. Previously, this video was streamed from your Stb-tester
Nodes using RTMP (Flash’s video-streaming protocol). With our latest firmware
release, Stb-tester Nodes now stream this live audio & video using WebRTC
– the W3C standard protocol for low-latency, real-time communication. WebRTC
allowed us to achieve much better latency when you are interacting manually
with your device-under-test via the Stb-tester Portal.
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02 Oct 2020.
Version 32 of the stb-tester core Python API is now available. We have
re-architected stbt.Keyboard to easily test on-screen keyboards with
multiple modes (such as lowercase, uppercase, and symbols modes). We have added
a powerful new API called stbt.find_selection_from_background to easily
detect the position of a “selection” or “highlight” on the screen. We have sped
up stbt.ocr hugely by caching previous results for identical inputs — so
now you can use OCR more freely in navigation code without worrying about
slowing down your test scripts.
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06 Feb 2020.
Stb-tester now provides tight integration with your organisation’s own
GitHub Enterprise instance.
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19 Sep 2019.
Version 31 of the Stb-tester core Python API is available, with support for
test-scripts written in Python 3 (Python 2 is still supported, too).
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25 Feb 2019.
Version 30 of the stb-tester core Python API is available. stbt.match now
supports transparency: Transparent pixels in the reference image will be
ignored when looking for a match within the video-frame. This is a huge
usability improvement when looking for buttons, selections/highlights, and
similar outlines that have dynamic content or non-rectangular shapes.
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22 Jun 2018.
Version 29 of the stb-tester core Python API is now available. This is a
significant release with major new APIs for testing audio.
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23 Mar 2018.
The Stb-tester Platform now supports Atlassian's Bamboo Server for Continuous
Integration (CI). Many of our customers already use Bamboo for continuous
integration, deployment, and delivery. Now, it will only take a few minutes
to get your Stb-tester end-to-end tests running from your Bamboo jobs.
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06 Feb 2018.
Version 28 of the stb-tester core Python API is now available.
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17 Jan 2018.
Stb-tester’s cloud-based portal centralizes your test results and dashboards.
It allows remote testing and live monitoring from anywhere in the world —
your devices can be spread across multiple network locations, and your test
team can be remote too.
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18 Dec 2015.
In November 2015 YouView launched on a range of Sony Bravia televisions across
the UK. The biggest technical challenges of the project were in the
integration, with frequent releases from YouView, Sony, MediaTek, and Google.
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