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BrowserStack vs Rainforest QA vs Selenium

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Overview

BrowserStack
BrowserStack
Stacks2.7K
Followers2.0K
Votes533
Rainforest QA
Rainforest QA
Stacks39
Followers68
Votes53
Selenium
Selenium
Stacks15.9K
Followers12.6K
Votes527
GitHub Stars33.6K
Forks8.6K

Advice on BrowserStack, Rainforest QA, Selenium

Rinchin
Rinchin

Jul 20, 2020

Needs adviceonSeleniumSeleniumSauce LabsSauce Labs

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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Shivam
Shivam

Mar 5, 2020

Needs advice

we are having one web application developed in Reacts.js. in the application, we have only 4 to 5 pages that we need to test. I am having experience in selenium with java. Please suggets which tool I should use. and why ............................ ............................ .............................

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Detailed Comparison

BrowserStack
BrowserStack
Rainforest QA
Rainforest QA
Selenium
Selenium

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.

Rainforest gives you the reliability of a QA team and the speed of automation, without the hassle of managing a team or the pain of writing automated tests.

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.

Get instant access to 20,000+ real mobile devices and browsers, which include real iOS and Android devices, Chrome, IE, Firefox, Safari; Test websites hosted on internal dev and staging environments with zero setup or configuration; Run hundreds of tests concurrently to speed up the execution time of your test suite by more than 10x
Infinitely Scalable, On-Demand QA Team; Cross Browser Testing; Regression, Functional, and Exploratory Testing; Super Fast Results; Test results direct to your Inbox; Support Powered by Engineers; Integrates with your Chat and Bug trackers; Works with Continuous Deployment
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Statistics
GitHub Stars
-
GitHub Stars
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GitHub Stars
33.6K
GitHub Forks
-
GitHub Forks
-
GitHub Forks
8.6K
Stacks
2.7K
Stacks
39
Stacks
15.9K
Followers
2.0K
Followers
68
Followers
12.6K
Votes
533
Votes
53
Votes
527
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 135
    Multiple browsers
  • 76
    Ease of use
  • 65
    Real browsers
  • 44
    Ability to use it locally
  • 27
    Good price
Cons
  • 2
    Very limited choice of minor versions
Pros
  • 13
    Cross-browser testing
  • 7
    QA
  • 7
    Super-simple test creation
  • 7
    Powerful API
  • 6
    Easy way to get real front-end smoke tests
Pros
  • 177
    Automates browsers
  • 154
    Testing
  • 101
    Essential tool for running test automation
  • 24
    Remote Control
  • 24
    Record-Playback
Cons
  • 8
    Flaky tests
  • 4
    Slow as needs to make browser (even with no gui)
  • 2
    Update browser drivers
Integrations
Cypress
Cypress
QMetry
QMetry
Jira
Jira
WordPress
WordPress
Shopify
Shopify
Zapier
Zapier
Drone.io
Drone.io
Jenkins
Jenkins
Slack
Slack
GitLab
GitLab
Slack
Slack
Codeship
Codeship
Pivotal Tracker
Pivotal Tracker
HipChat
HipChat
CircleCI
CircleCI
Jira
Jira
No integrations available

What are some alternatives to BrowserStack, Rainforest QA, Selenium?

Sauce Labs

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.

LambdaTest

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.

Karma

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

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.

WebdriverIO

WebdriverIO

WebdriverIO lets you control a browser or a mobile application with just a few lines of code. Your test code will look simple, concise and easy to read.

Testrail

Testrail

TestRail helps you manage and track your software testing efforts and organize your QA department. Its intuitive web-based user interface makes it easy to create test cases, manage test runs and coordinate your entire testing process.

TestingBot

TestingBot

TestingBot provides automated and Manual cross browser testing in the cloud. Make sure your website looks ok in all browsers.

Ghost Inspector

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.

Selenide

Selenide

It is a library for writing concise, readable, boilerplate-free tests in Java using Selenium WebDriver.

Autify

Autify

It is a software testing automation platform powered by AI. Autify helps in creating the Quality Assurance team to deliver the best version of their product in record time.

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