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BrowserStack vs Geb: What are the differences?
BrowserStack: Instant access to a lab of 1000+ real mobile and desktop browsers for testing. Live, Web-Based Browser Testing Instant access to all real mobile and desktop browsers. Say goodbye to your lab of devices and virtual machines; Geb: A browser automation solution. It brings together the power of WebDriver, the elegance of jQuery content selection, the robustness of Page Object modelling and the expressiveness of the Groovy language.It can be used for scripting.
BrowserStack and Geb belong to "Browser Testing" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by BrowserStack are:
- Real Device Cloud. Test on a range of physical Android and iOS mobile devices and tablets for the most accurate results
- 1100+ desktop browsers. Latest versions of IE, Edge, Safari, Chrome, Firefox and more on a range of Windows and OS X platforms on a robust cloud infrastructure
- Test dev environments. Our Local Testing feature allows you to test development and internal websites seamlessly, without setup or configuration
On the other hand, Geb provides the following key features:
- Groovy browser automation
- Web Testing
- Screen Scraping
Geb is an open source tool with 972 GitHub stars and 217 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Geb's open source repository on GitHub.
I am looking to purchase one of these tools for Mobile testing for my team. It should support Native, hybrid, and responsive app testing. It should also feature debugging, parallel execution, automation testing/easy integration with automation testing tools like Selenium, and the capability to provide availability of devices specifically for us to use at any time with good speed of performing all these activities.
I have already used Perfecto mobile, and Sauce Labs in my other projects before. I want to know how different or better is AWS Device farm in usage and how advantageous it would be for us to use it over other mentioned tools
A SaaS offering like Sauce Labs (or BrowserStack or LambdaTest, etc) will provide a remote Selenium/Appium Grid including the ability to run test automation in parallel (up to the amount based your subscription level) an a wide array of browsers and mobile devices.
These tools can be expensive, but if you can afford them, the expertise and effort of maintaining the grid, browser updates, etc. is worth it.
AWS Device Farm can be significantly cheaper, but is much more work to setup and run. It will not give you as many devices, or the reporting and screen/video capture you get with the the services. And there is no support for AWS Device Farm, and very poor documentation. I have used it, but do not recommend it. Running your own grid and physical device lab is better, but I'd stick with a service like Sauce Labs or Perfecto which will save you time and give you better services despite the higher price tag.
Stability - Just works. Availability - More than 15 datacenters. Enterprise features like SSO, local testing and SOC2/GDPR compliant.
BitBar's Dedicated Devices would be a great option for you. It allows you to dedicate (reserve) devices for your use only which also having access to all of the devices in the shared cloud. BitBar has the features and integrations that you are looking for as well.
Pros of BrowserStack
- Multiple browsers135
- Ease of use76
- Real browsers65
- Ability to use it locally44
- Good price27
- Great web interface21
- IE support19
- Official mobile emulators17
- Cloud-based access15
- Instant access15
- Real mobile devices12
- Multiple Desktop OS8
- Selenium compatible8
- Screenshots8
- Can be used for Testing and E2E7
- Pre-installed developer tools6
- Video of test runs5
- Supports Manual, Functional and Visual Diff Testing4
- Favourites4
- Webdriver compatible4
- Many browsers4
- Test Management3
- Test automation dashboard3
- Cypress Compatible3
- Bi-directional Jira Sync3
- Free for Open Source3
- Unify and track test cases3
- Cross-browser testing3
- Speed is fast2
- Real devices2
- Private devices1
- Test WCAG Compliance1
- Web accessibility1
- Visual testing and review1
Pros of Geb
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Cons of BrowserStack
- Very limited choice of minor versions2
