BrowserStack vs PreFlight vs Selenium

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BrowserStack

2.7K
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PreFlight

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Selenium

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+ 1
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Pros of BrowserStack
Pros of PreFlight
Pros of Selenium
  • 134
    Multiple browsers
  • 75
    Ease of use
  • 64
    Real browsers
  • 43
    Ability to use it locally
  • 26
    Good price
  • 20
    Great web interface
  • 18
    IE support
  • 16
    Official mobile emulators
  • 14
    Instant access
  • 14
    Cloud-based access
  • 11
    Real mobile devices
  • 7
    Multiple Desktop OS
  • 7
    Selenium compatible
  • 7
    Screenshots
  • 6
    Can be used for Testing and E2E
  • 5
    Pre-installed developer tools
  • 4
    Video of test runs
  • 3
    Many browsers
  • 3
    Favourites
  • 3
    Webdriver compatible
  • 3
    Supports Manual, Functional and Visual Diff Testing
  • 2
    Free for Open Source
  • 2
    Unify and track test cases
  • 2
    Test automation dashboard
  • 2
    Test Management
  • 2
    Cross-browser testing
  • 2
    Cypress Compatible
  • 2
    Bi-directional Jira Sync
  • 1
    Speed is fast
  • 1
    Real devices
  • 0
    Visual testing and review
  • 0
    Test WCAG Compliance
  • 0
    Web accessibility
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    • 175
      Automates browsers
    • 154
      Testing
    • 101
      Essential tool for running test automation
    • 24
      Record-Playback
    • 24
      Remote Control
    • 8
      Data crawling
    • 7
      Supports end to end testing
    • 6
      Easy set up
    • 6
      Functional testing
    • 4
      The Most flexible monitoring system
    • 3
      End to End Testing
    • 3
      Easy to integrate with build tools
    • 2
      Comparing the performance selenium is faster than jasm
    • 2
      Record and playback
    • 2
      Compatible with Python
    • 2
      Easy to scale
    • 2
      Integration Tests
    • 0
      Integrated into Selenium-Jupiter framework

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    Cons of BrowserStack
    Cons of PreFlight
    Cons of Selenium
    • 2
      Very limited choice of minor versions
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      • 8
        Flaky tests
      • 4
        Slow as needs to make browser (even with no gui)
      • 2
        Update browser drivers

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      What 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.

      What is PreFlight?

      Record tests while using your product and process the test then you can run them on all the popular browsers, across Windows & MacOS.

      What is 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.

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