By the way, just realized you are based out of India. Great job! Very happy to see a quality web product that is made in India. Who did your design? Love it!
One thing I never quite understood about online testing tools like browserstack and saucelabs is how to reset server state.
Most webapps have some kind of datastore. Poking around a web ui will CRUD records in that datastore, possibly corrupting the next test. Another problem with this is coupling between tests, making them hard to modify without breaking a bunch of others.
Most automated test setups I have seen run on a local machine, and all server state is reset between each test.
It's funny, the only use I see for this is IE testing, since everything else I can install the latest version of on my Mac, and the differences between versions are pretty small (and if you can support IE's lack of HTML5 functionality you can certainly do the same for FF3).
Still, solid UI and product, and will be handy for the quick IE spot-checks that I should be doing more of :).
Thats entirely a different problem, as of now we are completely focused in providing browsers across OSes and Mobile platforms with a very easy to use UI!
I thought this was going to be another cross-browsing testing thing that wouldn't work for me, but the local access is a really good idea. It really does change everything.
[+] [-] kevinconroy|14 years ago|reply
Also, if you're testing emails in different clients (worse than IE6 compatibility testing IMHO), I highly recommend http://litmus.com/
[+] [-] paraschopra|14 years ago|reply
[+] [-] ritesharora|14 years ago|reply
[+] [-] ck2|14 years ago|reply
Can it handle httpauth?
[+] [-] nakula|14 years ago|reply
[+] [-] aslakhellesoy|14 years ago|reply
Most webapps have some kind of datastore. Poking around a web ui will CRUD records in that datastore, possibly corrupting the next test. Another problem with this is coupling between tests, making them hard to modify without breaking a bunch of others.
Most automated test setups I have seen run on a local machine, and all server state is reset between each test.
How is this done on browserstack/saucelabs?
[+] [-] rb2k_|14 years ago|reply
(not 100% sure about that, but I think Selenium mentioned that in the logging output)
[+] [-] bkrausz|14 years ago|reply
Still, solid UI and product, and will be handy for the quick IE spot-checks that I should be doing more of :).
[+] [-] qq66|14 years ago|reply
[+] [-] al_james|14 years ago|reply
This does appear to be cheaper though. The local testing thing may be cool. Not sure how that will work.
[+] [-] rb2k_|14 years ago|reply
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[+] [-] corry|14 years ago|reply
Obviously Android and iOS are webkit based... but what about the horror that is BlackBerry rendering? <shudder>
[+] [-] dools|14 years ago|reply
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[+] [-] hiroprot|14 years ago|reply
All I get is "Oops! We have run into a small problem. Please try again." over and over again.
Overloaded?
[+] [-] nakula|14 years ago|reply
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[+] [-] bkrausz|14 years ago|reply
http://twitter.com/#!/browserstack/status/110011514911592449
[+] [-] braindead_in|14 years ago|reply
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[+] [-] rorrr|14 years ago|reply
99c to test in 5 different browser/OS combinations would be cool.
[+] [-] ritesharora|14 years ago|reply