Item: BrowserStack
Rating: 10
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with BrowserStack

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Testing various, but actually mainly one web application, checking for inconsistent rendering, interactive issues/bugs, and responsive UI design problems such as layout, colors, contrast, fonts, position, sizing/spacing, and graphics, etc. The products we produce are health orientated so accessibility, useability, presentation, reliability, and performance all contribute success in terms of sales, maintainability and customer retention.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Quick launch
Large catalogue of devices
Inspector

Cons

Code Inspector for all devices
Code inspector and be slow, unresponsive
Priority of most used devices / browsers based on stats

Most Important Features

Reliability (not crashing)
Ease of access
Cost

Return on Investment

Speeds up development
Code and design quality
Better client satisfaction

Performance

It does crash and can take a while to load a screen. It could do with a way to move and resize the testing area especially when on a laptop.

Comprehensive Coverage

Developers use it in the process of development, then testers use it for a more thorough check after each issue has been moved from code review. There's nothing complex about it.

Alternatives Considered

Litmus for email testing but it's not really a competitor of BrowserStack. No other products compare from what I've seen.

Key Insights

Do you think BrowserStack delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with BrowserStack's feature set?

Yes

Did BrowserStack live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of BrowserStack go as expected?

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

Would you buy BrowserStack again?

Yes

Other Software Used

Chrome DevTools, Docker, Figma, Adobe Illustrator CC, Sublime Text, 7EDGE

Likelihood to Recommend

Suited to anyone creating web applications or websites. It's important to view content on a variety of screen sizes, scrolling, content proportions, display of data in tables, buttons/links are clickable, when to show/hide content. Not appropriate to check on every single device/browser, especially the older ones. It's up to Developers/Designers to discern what issues are worth solving and investing time in.

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