Cross-Browser Testing Tool Will Rock Your Socks Off

#1

Post by srcasm » Tue, Sep 06, 2011, 3:48 AM UTC

Cross-Browser Testing Tool Will Rock Your Socks Off
browserstack.com

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#2

Post by lrhazi » Tue, Sep 06, 2011, 5:10 AM UTC

Would be nice if it supported browsers on Linux and Mac too, or does it already?

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#3

Post by bkrausz » Tue, Sep 06, 2011, 5:13 AM UTC

lrhazi wrote: post #2

Would be nice if it supported browsers on Linux and Mac too, or does it already?

It's their next feature according to Twitter

http://twitter.com/#!/browserstack/status/110011514911592449

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#4

Post by bkrausz » Tue, Sep 06, 2011, 5:16 AM UTC

It's funny, the only use I see for this is IE testing, since everything else I can install the latest version of on my Mac, and the differences between versions are pretty small (and if you can support IE's lack of HTML5 functionality you can certainly do the same for FF3).

Still, solid UI and product, and will be handy for the quick IE spot-checks that I should be doing more of :).

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#5

Post by braindead_in » Tue, Sep 06, 2011, 5:52 AM UTC

How does it work? It's not a virtual machine, right?

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#6

Post by aslakhellesoy » Tue, Sep 06, 2011, 6:08 AM UTC

One thing I never quite understood about online testing tools like browserstack and saucelabs is how to reset server state.

Most webapps have some kind of datastore. Poking around a web ui will CRUD records in that datastore, possibly corrupting the next test. Another problem with this is coupling between tests, making them hard to modify without breaking a bunch of others.

Most automated test setups I have seen run on a local machine, and all server state is reset between each test.

How is this done on browserstack/saucelabs?

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Post by qq66 » Tue, Sep 06, 2011, 6:14 AM UTC

bkrausz wrote: post #4

It's funny, the only use I see for this is IE testing, since everything else I can install the latest version of on my Mac, and the differences between versions are pretty small (and if you can support IE's lack of HTML5 functionality you can certainly do the same for FF3). Still, solid UI and product, and will be handy for the quick IE spot-checks that I should be doing more of :).

What about testing on Windows?

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#8

Post by bkrausz » Tue, Sep 06, 2011, 6:17 AM UTC

qq66 wrote: post #7

bkrausz wrote: post #4

It's funny, the only use I see for this is IE testing, since everything else I can install the latest version of on my Mac, and the differences between versions are pretty small (and if you can support IE's lack of HTML5 functionality you can certainly do the same for FF3). Still, solid UI and product, and will be handy for the quick IE spot-checks that I should be doing more of :).

What about testing on Windows?

With the exception of fonts there should be virtually 0 rendering differences between osx and windows versions of the same browser.

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#9

Post by rorrr » Tue, Sep 06, 2011, 6:19 AM UTC

I would add a per-test pricing plan, which is useful when you need to do just a few tests while developing, rather than forking $19/month.

99c to test in 5 different browser/OS combinations would be cool.

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#10

Post by ck2 » Tue, Sep 06, 2011, 6:20 AM UTC

Is it like http://browserling.com ?

Can it handle httpauth?