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Rinchin Mahajan
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
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Jaymie Falconi
at Smartbear · | 1 upvotes · 57.7K views
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.
Tariq Ahmad
Stability - Just works. Availability - More than 15 datacenters. Enterprise features like SSO, local testing and SOC2/GDPR compliant.
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Pros of Karma
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Pros of BrowserStack
- Multiple browsers131
- Ease of use71
- Real browsers60
- Ability to use it locally40
- Good price23
- Great web interface17
- IE support15
- Official mobile emulators13
- Cloud-based access12
- Instant access11
- Real mobile devices8
- Selenium compatible5
- Multiple Desktop OS5
- Can be used for Testing and E2E4
- Screenshots4
- Pre-installed developer tools3
- Video of test runs3
- Favourites2
- Webdriver compatible2
- Supports Manual, Functional and Visual Diff Testing2
- Many browsers2
- Cypress Compatible1
- Free for Open Source1
Pros of Karma
- Test Runner61
- Open source35
- Continuous Integration27
- Great for running tests22
- Test on Real Devices18
- Backed by google11
- Easy Debugging5
- Remote Control2
Pros of Sauce Labs
- Selenium-compatible60
- Webdriver compatible46
- Video recordings of every test35
- Qa31
- Mobile support29
- Any programming language26
- Developer tools23
- Test local and firewalled servers21
- Jenkins integration20
- Pristine VMs18
- CI Compatible17
- Appium support11
- Parallel testing9
- Rapid environment preparation8
- Mobile device support8
- Easy testing on almost any device7
- Allows me to Focus more test automation rather than IT7
- Secure testing and easy setup6
- Easy setup with CI and fast automated tests5
- Quick support response5
- Fast and reliable to host the automated tests4
- Easy to setup and understand,4
- Easy setup and integration with Travis Ci3
- Maintained browser matrix3
- Easy onboarding, do not need to manager VMs/OS/Browsers3
- Efficient tool to verify product quality2
- Teamcity Integration and mobile testing win2
- Hany for platform testing2
- Great documentation2
- Generous free trial2
- Easy. Straightforward. Scalable2
- Great way to integrate test suite on cloud2
- Simplicity of Sauce-connect2
- Very Good, Quick, flexible Infrastructure Support1
- It's great for my QA work1
- Awesome tech support1
- Having this available for CI servers is fantastic1
- Amazing service to do cloud cross browser testing1
- Depth of integrations1
- Because of its cloud based support for appium1
- Easy setup, Works great with selenium.1
- QE support1
- Manuals are not very well versed for beginners1
- Secure testing1
- Cheaper than browserstack1
- Stable1
- Simple to set up and integrate so many browser configs0
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- Very limited choice of minor versions2
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- Slow, because tests are run in a real browser1
- Requires the use of hacks to find tests dynamically1
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- Expensive2
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BrowserStack is a leading software testing platform for developers to comprehensively test their websites and mobile applications across 2,000+ real browsers and devices in a single cloud platform—and at scale.
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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.
What is Sauce Labs?
Cloud-based automated testing platform enables developers and QEs to perform functional, JavaScript unit, and manual tests with Selenium or Appium on web and mobile apps. Videos and screenshots for easy debugging. Secure and CI-ready.
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What are some alternatives to BrowserStack, Karma, and Sauce Labs?
Browserling
We run the browsers on our servers. Fully interactive sessions, not static screenshots. No flash, no applets, nothing to install. Powered entirely by <canvas> and javascript.
LambdaTest
LambdaTest platform provides secure, scalable and insightful test orchestration for website, and mobile app testing.
Customers at different points in their DevOps lifecycle can leverage Automation and/or Manual testing on LambdaTest.
Ghost Inspector
It lets you create and manage UI tests that check specific functionality in your website or application. We execute these automated browser tests continuously from the cloud and alert you if anything breaks.
AWS Device Farm
Run tests across a large selection of physical devices in parallel from various manufacturers with varying hardware, OS versions and form factors.
Appium
Appium is an open source test automation framework for use with native, hybrid, and mobile web apps. It drives iOS and Android apps using the WebDriver protocol. Appium is sponsored by Sauce Labs and a thriving community of open source developers.