BrowserStackWhat is BrowserStack?
BrowserStack is the leading test platform built for developers & QAs to expand test coverage, scale & optimize testing with cross-browser, real device cloud, accessibility, visual testing, test management, and test observability.
BrowserStack is a tool in the Testing Frameworks category of a tech stack.
Key Features
Get instant access to 20,000+ real mobile devices and browsers, which include real iOS and Android devices, Chrome, IE, Firefox, SafariTest websites hosted on internal dev and staging environments with zero setup or configurationRun hundreds of tests concurrently to speed up the execution time of your test suite by more than 10x
BrowserStack Pros & Cons
Pros of BrowserStack
- ✓Multiple browsers
- ✓Ease of use
- ✓Real browsers
- ✓Ability to use it locally
- ✓Good price
- ✓Great web interface
- ✓IE support
- ✓Official mobile emulators
- ✓Cloud-based access
- ✓Instant access
Cons of BrowserStack
- ✗Very limited choice of minor versions
BrowserStack Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to BrowserStack?
Selenium
Selenium automates browsers. That's it! What you do with that power is entirely up to you. Primarily, it is for automating web applications for testing purposes, but is certainly not limited to just that. Boring web-based administration tasks can (and should!) also be automated as well.
Karma
Karma is not a testing framework, nor an assertion library. Karma just launches a HTTP server, and generates the test runner HTML file you probably already know from your favourite testing framework. So for testing purposes you can use pretty much anything you like.
Playwright
It is a Node library to automate the Chromium, WebKit and Firefox browsers with a single API. It enables cross-browser web automation that is ever-green, capable, reliable and fast.
