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What’s New

• Conditional Execution (IF Steps): Tests can now follow conditional flows, stopping execution or jumping to a target step based on runtime conditions.

Why It Matters

• Conditional Steps: Covers scenarios with conditional behaviors, enabling more flexible and realistic test flows.

How It Works

• IF steps evaluate conditions during execution to either stop or jump to a specified step. Example: Stop login test if credentials are invalid, skipping unnecessary assertions.

What’s New

Thunders now allows reusing test cases in teardown steps, extending the reuse functionality beyond the main test flow.

Why It Matters

• Expands test case reuse across all stages of a test
• Enhances test composition and workflow flexibility
• Makes cleanup steps like logouts, resets, or environment cleanup easier to manage

How It Works

Users can now reference existing test cases in the teardown phase. For example, a logout test can be reused after a login test completes, ensuring consistent cleanup without redefining steps.

Impact

This update gives teams more flexibility and efficiency in structuring tests, reducing duplication, and improving maintainability.

Browser steps now support user-defined descriptions, replacing technical selectors with clear, purposeful labels that communicate intent at a glance.

What this means for you:

★ Test flows are no longer cluttered with raw XPath or CSS selectors.

★ Instead of interpreting technical syntax, you see exactly what each step accomplishes.

This makes your tests more intuitive to read, easier to maintain, and accessible across your entire team.

💡 Read the full article to learn everything about Browser steps

Downloaded Excel files are now ✨first-class citizens✨ in your test validation!

The runner accurately parses .XLSX contents, making every field & value available for comprehensive assertions.

What this means for you:

Organizations relying on Excel exports for validating success criteria can now build robust assertions directly into their test flows, without manual workarounds or post-processing.

Variable handling is now more intuitive.

The runner automatically understands dynamic values like "today" without requiring explicit date specifications, and generates variables more reliably across test scenarios.

What this means for you:

★ Write tests more naturally.

★ Dynamic values that mirror how users actually think, reducing friction and improving test reliability.

💡 Read the full article to learn everything about Variable management

Test failures just got easier to understand.

We've refined when screenshots are captured (before or after actions, depending on their nature) and introduced visual bounding boxes that highlight exactly which element the runner interacted with.

What this means for you:

★ No more guessing what went wrong.

★ Bounding boxes, which are configurable in advanced settings, show you the runner's decision-making process, making debugging significantly clearer and faster.

We've rolled out new Browserless locations, fully owned and operated by Thunders.

This means complete control over infrastructure, scaling, and maintenance, delivering tangible improvements where they matter most.

What this means for you:

★ More stable test execution

★ Faster response times

★ Reduced costs through optimized infrastructure

We've simplified IP whitelisting by reducing the number of addresses per location, while keeping legacy locations active to ensure a smooth transition for teams with existing configurations.

Christmas comes early this year, and our gift to you is a feature you’ve been asking and waiting for.

Hot Reload is here to make you save time and money.

You can now resume execution exactly where the last successful step stopped, no reset, no wasted time:

• Accelerate test creation
• Save time and money by running only what’s necessary
• Debug efficiently by testing your fix immediately.

Hot Reload pushes Thunders toward a smarter, more scalable, and high-performance testing experience.

💡 Read the full article for more details on how to Hot Reload.

We replaced the previous multi-step onboarding wizard with a single continuous flow, making it faster and simpler to set up a new organization.

This provides you with a clear, central location to configure and manage all your organization’s preferences.

The “Steps to Actions” module, which converts test steps into browser-executable actions, has been significantly optimized.

• Tests now run up to 3× faster, reducing feedback loops.
• The success rate on our test set has increased from 68% to 79%, improving reliability
• Execution demonstrates greater stability and consistency, ensuring predictable automated test runs.