TrustRadius Insights for BrowserStack are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.
Pros
Wide Variety of Devices: Users have expressed gratitude for the extensive selection of real devices available on BrowserStack, including phones, tablets, and desktops. This diverse range allows them to test their applications comprehensively across various platforms.
Parallel Testing Feature: Many users have found the ability to conduct parallel testing on multiple devices simultaneously invaluable. This feature streamlines the testing process and enhances efficiency by enabling simultaneous testing across different device configurations.
Recording Test Sessions: The feature of recording test sessions and capturing screenshots for bug tracking has received high praise from users. It aids in pinpointing and resolving issues efficiently during testing, contributing to a smoother testing experience overall.
One of great aspect that I like most from the BrowserStack is solid capability of data access from most browsers. It offers full data analytics of application performance from scratch to the entire lifecycle. The free trial plan gives teams test of advance operation model that drives effective decision-making before full commitment.
Pros
Quality checks of application performance.
Running tests across various models.
Cons
Session time limits prevents successful execution of long tests.
The performance has been excellent in the organization.
Likelihood to Recommend
When working with this platform to test web experiments across various browsers it gives reliable outcomes. It integrates seamlessly with modern automation frameworks. It is easy to set up and there is always standby team of experts ready to assist when there are drawbacks. The cost of maintenance is relatively low since there is no physical infrastructure.
We need to use real devices to test our product end-to-end. This is particularly important for the end user who is taking the cognitive evaluation (we sell cognitive assessments and assessment management software). We use BrowserStack real devices to simulate end-to-end tests, ensuring the happy path is covered, and we also run dense grid testing across all devices to ensure full compatibility coverage. If there's a compatibility issue, BrowserStack gives us confidence that it is handled gracefully rather than blowing up in the customer's hands.
Pros
It immediately starts a device test, instead of making you wait as part of a 'pool' as Lambda Stack does.
It allows tunneling to a local network, so we don't need to expose a public endpoint when testing our local development environment.
It has a good variety of devices to choose from.
Cons
The documentation needs to improve for browser edge cases, such as "approving permissions automatically". There are several "solutions" posted, none of which worked. I needed to go to Discord to get the real solution.
Documentation in general seems to provide answers that are unclear or flaky
There needs to be a more reliable way to programmatically choose device, platform, and window size by being able to query a 'plan' endpoint instead of just 'failing the combination.'
Likelihood to Recommend
If you need immediate testing (for example, from Azure pipelines agents), use BrowserStack instead of LambdaTest (which makes you wait in a "pool" until the device/platform combo you are querying is accessible). If you don't need your tests to be immediate and prefer a wider range of devices, then use Lambdatest.
VU
Verified User
Director in Research & Development (11-50 employees)
We have used BrowserStack for comparing our UX flows across diverse browsers, platforms, OS, devices, etc to study and suggest improvements as well as glitches to the overall UX flow. It helps pinpoint where users are getting stuck and which flow requires improvements or remedial fixes that can make the UX seamless as well as flawless.
Pros
Comparison across platforms
Analytics on specific use cases
Understand technical glitches in your application
Cons
Difficulty to switch between platforms and see A-B comparison
Analytics could improvise
Ability to have screen recording to specific use cases
We use BrowserStack for a number of things (all related to QA): * In-sprint feature testing * Pre-release regression testing * Automated Appium tests * Specific device testing - tablet vs. phone, Android and iOS
Pros
Devices initialize fast
Robust API suite
Feature rich
Cons
New versions of Android SDK need to be available sooner
New versions of iOS need to be available sooner
Sometimes we have had devices freeze. These instances were all reported to Support though who responded in a timely manner
Likelihood to Recommend
We use this primarily for testing native iOS and Android apps on physical public and private devices. It works well for >95% of test cases. Sometimes we need to test something that is not available on BrowserStack and need to solicit the team to test with a physical device (e.g. an iPad with iPadOS 26.2 on it).
I use BrowserStack for testing on multiple devices. Instead of having to get physical devices, we do our testing on BrowserStack. As a remote based company it is not feasible to have physical devices for all testers and instead the organization went ahead with BrowserStack as it provides multiple devices to test on. It has a wide range of mobile devices in both Android and iOS. Also has a lot of previous versions to test on. For the Windows and MacOS devices, it is also possible to be tested. One of the best features that I widely use is the simultaneous parallel testing feature, which helps me a lot in testing on multiple devices at the same time and saves a lot of time.
Pros
The devices available for testing render the websites as perfectly as a real device would
The ability to switch to different OS versions and different website versions increases the testing scope
The simultaneous/ parallel execution of tests on multiple devices makes things faster and testing can be done faster
The ability to change how the network speed affects the performance and to get to know how everything behaves on the device
Cons
The parallel execution is limited and is still in beta state. Once it starts to work properly, it will be more helpful
The paid subscription can be a bit of an issue for some individuals or organizations as the charges are a bit too much
Some of the devices do not open or load properly and are not available to test at times
Likelihood to Recommend
As per my experience, BrowserStack is more suited for those organizations that have a remote work culture and also for those who need multiple device testing. Also, it is beneficial for those organizations that do not want to spend more on physical devices, as the devices update frequently in the market. It is not appropriate for those organizations which have lesser need of multi- device testing as the subscription model may not be feasible for them. Also a small organization with less number of employees would not opt for BrowserStack as it would be costlier for them.
VU
Verified User
Executive in Quality Assurance (1001-5000 employees)
For testing Apps on different environments, they can be old or new. Using BrowserStack, we can easily test an app with a real feel of devices. It offers a range of devices for Android and IOS. I am using it for around 4 years and as a mobile developer of hybrid apps, sometimes we need to test the app on a range of supported devices, but to buy each and every device is not possible but BrowserStack solves that biggest problem.
Pros
You can upload single app on multiple devices
For iOS, we don't need to think of it really, it does a good job because obviously iOS is more expensive to test
Latest supported OS versions are always there
Cons
Local app testing sometimes causes issues. I tried it on my device for automation, but it didn't work well
We can't debug properly, lots of logs on the device
Camera and subscriptions we can't test on for Android and iOS both
Likelihood to Recommend
To test apps on different environments of Android, like multiple device support, we can do it easily. By doing this, we can test the reliability issues for different versions of the OS Animation-based things are really tough to test in BrowserStack But it eventually does good if we are testing in a real world scenario
VU
Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees)
We primarily use the Live, App Live, Accessibility Testing and Percy for testing purposes across our estate. This is segmented across a number of different platforms we support within our support division. We are starting to move more into the testing automation space, however we still use other tools for that purpose.
Pros
Excellent live testing to simulate functionality across a variety of devices, operating systems and devices.
Good AI capabilities within Percy to help automate visual tests which speeds up QA and regression testing.
Provides a variety of testing tools and functionality in one suite of products which makes it easier to manage users and access.
Cons
For large organizations, any improvements that can be made to manage licenses and access controls would be helpful.
Integrate performance/load testing to replace other tools like Blazemeter.
Make it easier to migrate testing frameworks from other applications like TestRail and at a competitive cost.
Likelihood to Recommend
Because BrowserStack provides so many different testing tools and capabilities in one suite of products, it makes it easier to roll it out as an option across a variety of businesses and teams that have specific testing requirements. Eg, Mobile vs. Desktop application development. It is also fairly easy to integrate via SSO to manage access.
We primarily use BrowserStack for cross browser testing and cross device & mobile testing.The main business problems which we are addressing using this tool is that we are able to test our application performance on real mobile devices not just emulators and validating the responsiveness and behaviour on different screens.Apart from that we are also able to emulate certain applications in Windows XP emulator( to test the applications running on old IE9 browser for few products of ours)
Pros
Provides well set up emulators for mobile testing
Provides the complete setup for cross browser testing needs
Test locally hosted or staging apps in BrowserStack Local
Cons
Can improve the readabality of the UI interface for clear understanding
Can include Desktop Automation features
Can improve the performance side of the tool for bulk testing
Can improve the number of parallel tests which can be carried out in the license plan
Likelihood to Recommend
1)Cross browser testing -Best case 2)Real device or emulator testing -Best case 3)Parallel Execution and Integrating well with CI/CD tool -Best case 3)Desktop Automation -Less appropriate
We are running a daily pipeline job for Automation on the mobile BS devices. And sometimes we face a timeout issue during the suite run.
Pros
BrowserStack provides access to many different browsers for testing.
BrowserStack provides access to many different mobile devices for mobile automation testing.
Cons
Not seen any major issue in BS mobile automation.
I haven't seen AI in BrowserStack, which suggests the product needs improvement in this area. Accessibility testing is an area of concern that requires improvement.
Likelihood to Recommend
1. For the daily pipeline run for the regression cycle on both platforms. iOS & Android 2. BS helping running daily pipeline for Evinced automation 3. BS helping run daily for Visual test automation.
I am a staff SDET engineer, and we had an issue with not having a centralised place for storing all the test cases. So we contacted the team, obtained licensed versions, and eventually fixed the problem of sharing test cases among all team members. Another issue was that we want tiered licenses for read-only and full usage, so we can cover the entire team in looking into the TCs. It is one of the best tools I have used so far for test case management, with many advanced use cases to support. Had 1-2 basic feature misses as well, but that should not stop anyone from getting this tool.
Pros
Good Test case management.
Well structured access level for full user and read only user.
Good Integration with JIRA and support of many other integrations.
Good AI support as well.
Cons
Duplicating the TC. Its very tedious step for now if we want to do.
Likelihood to Recommend
Tiered structure for full and read-only users. rest I have already mentioned.