What are the best online platforms for browser testing?

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Best online platforms for browser testing	Price	Platforms	OS
-- BrowserStack	-	-	-
-- LambdaTest	$15	-	-
-- Katalon Studio	Paid	Windows, Linux, Mac	-
-- BugBug.io	€0 ; €69 ; €149 ; €299	-	-
-- Sauce Labs	-	-	-

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BrowserStack

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Top Pro

You can conduct tests on real mobile devices

Browserstack provides real mobile devices to test on, which makes it faster and more reliable than emulators and simulators. See More

Top Con

Immature approach to cyber security

Surprisingly underprepared for answering basic questions about cyber security during the evaluation process. Replies to the questions may take days to get, and they only include questions for the prospective client. As though, for instance, the answer to whether or not the client had budgeted for testing would influence their answer to the client's question, "Do you support two-factor authentication for your users?" This is discouraging, but their tools are very nice. See More

Top Pro

Easy to use

Top Con

Security incident in 2014

Top Pro

Multiple browsers

Top Con

Re-use of VMs across different customers

Top Pro

Easy to use UI

Top Con

Sessions are rejected instead of queued up when all VMs are in use

Top Pro

Good selection of developer tools

IE, FF, Safari, Chrome and Opera come with additional web development browser extensions installed, such as Firebug or YSlow. See More

Top Con

May be unreliable

The same test may succeed for some users and fails for others. Apparently there are problems with the test client running on Windows. See More

Top Pro

You can easily test websites on your local development

Top Con

Real Apple devices are unreliable as of August 2015

Real Apple devices are a new feature that BrowserStack has introduced. At the moment (August 2015) there are unreliable. Excerpt from an email reply from BrowserStack support: we provide real iOS devices (Beta) and iOS simulators for Selenium browser testing on Automate. Since these devices are in beta, you might encounter a few problems while running tests on them. To avoid this issue, we would suggest you try running your tests on iOS simulators. See More

Top Pro

Huge variety of OSs, browsers and devices

There are over 200 desktop/mobile/tablet browser-platform combinations possible. See More

Top Con

Uses Android emulators for mobile testing

Top Pro

Get screenshots across many devices

Can request screenshots from many devices for comparison. See More

Top Pro

Run concurrent tests in parallel

Open source project accounts are limited to at most two concurrent VMs. See More

Top Pro

Integration with CI services

Top Pro

Selenium automation integration

Top Pro

Might be able to test on real iOS devices

It's not very clear if real iOS devices are available for automated testing. On one hand, https://www.browserstack.com/mobile-browser-emulator is all about emulators for both Android and iOS. On the other, https://www.browserstack.com/automate says "Test across real iOS devices and Android mobile emulators" Then again, https://www.browserstack.com/list-of-browsers-and-platforms?product=automate lists "real iOS devices". See More

Top Pro

I can easily test websites on my local development

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LambdaTest

Top Pro

Tech support is good

Top Con

Cypress Integration is missing

WorthyHadur's Experience

Great browser coverage. 2000+ browsers to test on is awesome!! See More

Top Pro

Automation testing

Top Con

Native Apps Testing should be added

danbovey's Experience

Using LambdaTest automation we could run all our functionality tests suits across multiple browsers and OS. Helped us identify UI misalignment specific to browsers or functionality failure due to incompatibility with a particular browser. The good part is you can automate screenshots and get insights into where and which browser your website’s UI is going off. Then we can use the live feature to identify and debug the compatibility issue. We strongly believe customer experience is the key and that could impede your product growth. With lambdatest, we could see improvements in identifying errors before our customer does. See More

Top Pro

Browser coverage

Top Con

Loading time issues with VM's

TrustworthyRaetTawy's Experience

In my experience, it is the best. See More

Top Pro

Geolocation and integrations are a huge plus for us

Top Con

The analytics over automation dashboard can be more intuitive

SpontaneousAuahituroa's Experience

Very good tool for automated cross browser testing See More

Top Pro

APIs for extracting test run data like logs and run video

Surobhi Das's Experience

My overall experience is good. I am happy with the features that I have used till now. See More

Top Pro

Documentations are self explanatory

Artyom Korolev's Experience

LambdaTest’s Smart Testing helped us identify Visual Regression bugs. While we develop our web applications, our top concern was to verify the unintentional changes to the application's visuals. We need to make sure that changing one component doesn't break the styling of another component. LambdaTest's Smart testing helped us to identify visual regression bugs for every new build. We could capture our website screenshots belonging to different environments i.e stage and production & upload them on the LambdaTest Visual Testing platform. We were able to discover visual deviations with pixel to pixel comparison by capturing screenshots, comparing them against the baseline image, and highlighting visual changes. The slider mode is very helpful to compare the visual discrepancies between the two images by toggling them. Overall, Smart testing helped us perform reliable visual testing at scale and eliminated the risk of delivering visual bugs. See More

Top Pro

Live debugging in automation tests

rachel's Experience

LambdaTest has optimized our Selenium Testing experience to deliver a seamless user experience across every browser and device. With its cloud Selenium Grid, we were able to run our test cases concurrently across thousands of desktop and mobile browsers. It helped us to reduce our test suite's build execution time by over 10x with parallel testing. We don't need to worry about updating versions, adding devices, maintaining device sanity anymore. We have been able to easily automate and continuously run all of our test cases through the CI pipeline on LambdaTest's reliable cloud infrastructure. We even use the Lambda tunnel to test our local web apps before the final web launch. The integration with Jenkins CI helped us to accelerate and deploy our quality builds faster. See More

Top Pro

Integration with JIRA

CaringAriadne's Experience

We serve a variety of clients across industries, thus we need to make sure our website is accessible from every desktop, mobile browser combination they use. Responsive web design is an integral part of our testing process. As a B2B, you want to make sure that your services are always a step ahead of your customers. And to achieve that, it's important to have a tool that keeps your code and web designing process in sync with the Production. LambdaTest's variety of browsers and local testing capabilities made it a perfect fit for our requirements. Additionally we got free access to LT Browser which is absolutely loved by our developers. We are now in a better position while tackling misbehaving websites with the help of it’s inbuilt dev tools. The best part is that LambdaTest offers an automated parallel testing that helped us achieve faster and wider test coverage over multiple browsers. Its affordable price and fast technical support made the purchase decision very easy for the team. And yes I absolutely love their support staff. They are truly available for 24*7. See More

Top Pro

Lambdatest extensions for Azure

Alick's Experience

As technology advances, enterprises are switching from manual testing to Selenium Test Automation. But one area most enterprises are still struggling is with the scalability of running several tests in parallel. LambdaTest has been a boon for us when it comes to Selenium automation. With a Selenium Grid based on the cloud, we don't need to stress about setting up and maintaining infrastructure anymore. We can run hundreds of tests in parallel on 2000+ browsers and OS versions running on real machines. LambdaTest really helped us in reducing our web testing cost and at the same time scale it as and when required. To leverage on marketing campaigns, we needed to ensure all our deliverables render seamlessly on different mobile and desktop browsers our users use to view them from across the world. The geolocation testing functionality helped us set the location and test our website over various locations. At LambdaTest, we can now run geolocation testing to test our website across 40+ countries. The pricing plan is pretty simple and easy to grasp, with no hidden costs at all. See More

Top Pro

Docker for local testing

Rafal K's Experience

LambdaTest Selenium Grid has been really productive for us to substantially shorten our test cycles and sustain cross-browser compatibility on the legacy versions of browsers. This was on priority as we could see the spike in users using our website from the older browser versions. Another feature I like most is its well designed UI, very stable and quick, which makes it easy to use and configure. LambdaTest also provides us with precise documentation of individual features to make the testing process easy to learn and implement. Cheers to LambdaTest! for giving us such a powerful tool. See More

Top Pro

Underpass app, very helpful for local testing on development environment

Zarina A's Experience

Using LambdaTest we could run all our functionality tests across various browsers, OS, and resolutions. We have a significantly large user base with some users accessing the product through browsers like Internet Explorer. LambdaTest was a big help to test over those rare combinations of browsers and OS. In addition the Lambdatest helped us find minute UI misalignments and browser compatibility issues faster. Especially test automation helped us bring down the time, effort, and cost of our deployment. Thanks to the support team for being available 24*7, and solving rare hiccups, then and there. See More

Martin's Experience

LambdaTest is brilliant. The ease of testing locally hosted URLs over hundreds of browsers & operating systems without worrying about infrastructure issues has led us to deliver better softwares, faster! Using LambdaTest Selenium Grid, we have radically reduced the manual testing effort while ensuring our web application's cross-browser compatibility. It's crucial for us (as a healthcare provider) to make sure that there are no errors. We had to incorporate a lot of changes due to COVID-19 and our in-house infrastructure plateaued the testing cycles, delaying our go-to-market. That’s where LambdaTest came to pull us through. Leveraging LambdaTest cloud infrastructure, we could scale our automation test cycles without much of a struggle. Our automation team could execute Selenium scripts in their preferred language, and the ability to test parallely helped us optimize our continuous deployment. Thanks to LambdaTest, we can find more critical bugs with less manual testing efforts. See More

Jane Wang's Experience

We have been using LambdaTest for almost 6 months now. Back then, we were thinking of implementing shift left testing to catch bugs ASAP. With browser testing being one of the most rigorous and time-consuming validations, we were looking for a solution that could help us achieve continuous testing through our GitLab CI/CD pipeline. That is when we landed over a webinar of LambdaTest which demonstrated setting up GitLab CI/CD and integrating it with their cloud. We thought of giving the integration a go and it worked like a charm. We were able to leverage the Git based triggers to execute our CI/CD pipeline. So every time a new commit was pushed from our end, the pipeline ran an automated build over the LambdaTest Grid, which allowed us to ensure our UI on every major and minor release with access to numerous browsers, platforms and devices. Integrating LambdaTest in our GitLab CI/CD pipeline allowed us to deploy quality builds faster. In the new normal where companies are forced to perform remote testing due to COVID-19, a cloud based solution like LambdaTest has been a life-savour. It gives us the flexibility to run tests from anywhere at any time without being bothered about maintaining an inhouse infrastructure. See More

Romila De's Experience

Running tests serially can be a good option when your product is at an early stage. But as we scaled the product, we needed a tool to reduce test time execution and pace up our test cycles. LambdaTest simplified the Selenium testing experience for us with their cloud based platform which allowed us to execute our test cases in parallel on hundreds of browsers. We could easily automate the test cases, get the sessions recorded and share the test reports across the team for assessment using Asana integration. We even leverage the integration with CircleCI to run automated tests on LambdaTest through our pipeline. The CircleCI Orb is handy for testing our privately hosted application. It’s good to see now that using LambdaTest we could run multiple tests on multiple VM’s, saving us hours of testing time and maintenance cost of local infrastructure. Personally, one thing that LambdaTest does very well is continuing to provide tutorials for testing, so that we stay up to speed and are even able to learn new things.I definitely saw myself applying a lot of the new concepts that I learned from their blogs. See More

Elma Sekar's Experience

Optimizing our pre-prod testing process was the need of an hour for my team. We required a solution that would help us be consistent with testing in each sprint. Using LambdaTest, we could run local tests for our web-application on varied combinations of browsers and platforms through virtual machines hosted on cloud. Underpass app was a great help here to launch tunnel connection in no time without any command line calls. With LambdaTest, we are able to deliver a browser compatible experience to our visitors. Good to see it integrates with ClickUp,raising a bug ticket was never so easy. See More

Matt D Burch's Experience

The industry we function (e-commerce) has a broad category of audience. We need to make sure our website is accessible to everyone irrespective of the browser / operating system they use. Ofcourse, responsive web design check is a major bullet point over our testing checklist as well. As a B2C, it's crucial for us to stay ahead of the customers and we wanted a solution which could help us ensure our changes would work seamlessly when shipped to the Production. LambdaTest made a great fit here when considered the latest browsers on the product, ability to test local pages along with a complimentary access to LT browser which is an absolute delight for our developers and testers. It helps us save a considerable effort on responsive testing plus the native developer tools allow us to dig deep into any UI mismatch! Also As mentioned we could achieve wider test coverage in time by running multiple combinations of browsers in parallel with LambdaTest automation suite. Our director to purchase the subscription was due to their affordable pricing for the parallel tests and the communication from the support team! See More

Thelma Powell's Experience

When pandemic demanded us to work from home, it was a daunting situation for us. Keeping up with the consistent growth since a year, we had few feature launches ready to be deployed on prod environments. But testing them was a challenge while working remotely and with a large team of testers and developers. LambdaTest is a saving soldier for our company by offering us thousands of browsers & platforms to test on cloud. We are able to ensure a sturdy UI without worrying about infra management. Plus points for docker extension where we could locally test on multiple instances through Lambda Tunnel using Docker. This helped us align better with our DevOps team, kept our projects on track and allowed us to implement continuous deployment with robust quality checks. See More

Alina Novikava's Experience

Initially we were skeptical whether a cloud infrastructure would be able to give us the flexibility, speed and browser coverage we need for our agile sprints. But LambdaTest has been a complete value for money to us. They usually get the latest browsers on-board under 2 weeks time and are never compromising the experience over legacy browsers at the same time. The machines are quick to load and we rely heavily over the Monday integration, it helps us share screenshots instantly among ourselves without having to be stuck in long email chains. We have been using LambdaTest for around 8 months and it has been so far so good. See More

Lee Jelley's Experience

LambdaTest has made our testing process less tedious with automated parallel testing. Builds that took days to complete with in-house infrastructure were executed in a couple hours. Parallel testing has helped us with faster feedback loops to scale up our go to market efforts. Having a global user base we have active traffic from varied locations and testing on multiple platforms and browsers is a continuous process for the team. The feature that stands out for us is geolocation testing, all you need to do is run the capabilities and test the website for the desired location. We use Azure Pipelines for CI/CD and LambdaTest extension for Azure has helped us get a seamless testing experience for our privately hosted projects. Thanks to that we are now able to easily ensure browser compatibility for all the changes before we move them to Prod. Kudos to the team! See More

Tolga OV's Experience

As a Fintech company, other than Chrome and Safari, we need to test our website regularly on IE and Edge as well, as our customers are dependent on legacy OS to use our web-application. LambdaTest Selenium Grid has helped us radically reduce the manual testing effort and ensure browser compatibility. Our automation engineers are able to execute Selenium scripts in their preferred language, the cloud infrastructure has allowed us to scale our automation test cycles effortlessly. A majority of our regression suites are now automated, thanks to LambdaTest as we are now able to find more critical bugs with less manual testing efforts. See More

Rod Morales's Experience

Have been using Lambdatest for around 6 months now, and could say that it’s a useful testing tool for our team. Offering great combinations of browsers and operating systems for you to test on and most importantly there are many types of additional logs that come with each test which helps in debugging. Glad to see the integration with Travis CI due to which we could optimally use this tool with our CI CD pipelines directly. We were able to effectively run TestNG and Selenium tests using their documentation and as an added advantage their support team is quick and helpful. See More

Vitalli 's Experience

Very Useful Cross Browser Testing Tool! Initially we had mixed feelings about trying this tool for our automation tests, however the trial period itself made us realize why investing in this tool would be worthwhile. Never knew our app was breaking in so many browsers ! LambdaTest provides a good stack of web browsers environments to test against for running both manual and automated tests. The setup was super easy and intuitive, which is a big thumbs up! Interactive dashboard, very easy to navigate, and integration with Jira saves a lot of time. We now run multiple tests in Parallel on different combinations of browsers. So we increased our browser coverage and brought our whole pipeline to the cloud. This also improved the productivity of the team. See More

Sanaya Dinshaw's Experience

LambdaTest does the heavy lifting for us! Extremely helpful while performing regression tests for us. Couldn’t have imagined setting up our own infrastructure to conduct parallel tests. Before taking up the cloud option we used a single machine and 60 UI tests were run serially, the time consumption was a huge setback here. Lambdatest helped us with all the heavy lifting by providing options to choose as many VM’s you need without any maintenance cost. And moreover, our web app runs on multiple platforms and Lambdatest supports these platforms with a great list of browsers to test on. Decently priced, this tool saved us a lot of money and time. See More

Neha Gupta's Experience

Our previous tool was a dent for us in terms of pricing so while looking out for alternatives, Lambdatest seemed to be the right fit that we could explore. Had few doubts for the parallel tests and its pricing but the support team was efficient to justify and explain the process to set up. And since then it's been the permanent tool for us! Being a fast pace web development agency, we needed a robust platform that could help us serve the demand in time. The tool caters to our needs as the one click bug management is extremely useful for us. See More

Zahra Khan's Experience

LambdaTest in our opinion is one tool that has simplified the complex process of cross browser testing. In just a few clicks we were able to test our website on 100+ combinations of browsers & OS out of the 2000+ options. They have made the product so simple that it can be used any anyone. Recently we have subscribed to their automation plan with the help of which we are automating our entire web testing process, piece of advice (Automation plan is strictly for people who know selenium) To us, they are the most simple and straight forward tool. See More

AffableHaukim's Experience

We found LambdaTest most suitable for us because it works faster. The platform allowed us to test our website on a combination of 2000+ real desktop and mobile browsers. See More

HealthyIsis's Experience

Using LambdaTest, we save time and money both because it is less expensive and faster than other automation testing tools. See More

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Katalon Studio

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Specs

Platforms:Windows, Linux, Mac

BugBug.io

All

Pros

Top Pro

Great UI & UX

A design for a high efficiency See More

Sauce Labs

All

Pros

Top Pro

Mobile browser support

Top Pro

Compatible with Selenium

ExcelRT Builder

Cross Browser Testing

Browserling

HeadSpin

Endtest

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8 Options Considered

My Recommendation for BrowserStack

My Recommendation for BrowserStack

You can conduct tests on real mobile devices

Immature approach to cyber security

Easy to use

Security incident in 2014

Multiple browsers

Re-use of VMs across different customers

Easy to use UI

Sessions are rejected instead of queued up when all VMs are in use

Good selection of developer tools

May be unreliable

You can easily test websites on your local development

Real Apple devices are unreliable as of August 2015

Huge variety of OSs, browsers and devices

Uses Android emulators for mobile testing

Get screenshots across many devices

Run concurrent tests in parallel

Integration with CI services

Selenium automation integration

Might be able to test on real iOS devices

I can easily test websites on my local development

My Recommendation for LambdaTest

My Recommendation for LambdaTest

Tech support is good

Cypress Integration is missing

Automation testing

Native Apps Testing should be added

Browser coverage

Loading time issues with VM's

Geolocation and integrations are a huge plus for us

The analytics over automation dashboard can be more intuitive

APIs for extracting test run data like logs and run video

Documentations are self explanatory

Live debugging in automation tests

Integration with JIRA

Lambdatest extensions for Azure

Docker for local testing

Underpass app, very helpful for local testing on development environment

My Recommendation for Katalon Studio

My Recommendation for Katalon Studio

My Recommendation for BugBug.io

My Recommendation for BugBug.io

Great UI & UX

My Recommendation for Sauce Labs

My Recommendation for Sauce Labs

Mobile browser support

Compatible with Selenium

My Recommendation for ExcelRT Builder

My Recommendation for ExcelRT Builder

My Recommendation for Cross Browser Testing

My Recommendation for Cross Browser Testing

My Recommendation for Browserling

My Recommendation for Browserling

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My Recommendation for HeadSpin

My Recommendation for HeadSpin

My Recommendation for Endtest

My Recommendation for Endtest

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