BrowserStack for Rapid Test Development
Updated July 12, 2023

BrowserStack for Rapid Test Development

Abhineet Sharma | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

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Overall Satisfaction with BrowserStack

As a Test automation lead, we were looking for a tool for a rapid test automation development for Mobile test cases which support our automation framework and should be less maintainable in terms of environment creation so we don't need to worry about drivers and inspectors for our locator strategies. Also, BrowserStack helped us in quick development of test scenarios and its execution withing a short duration for mobile test automation creation. For me and my team, we do have conversations with BrowserStack team for any queries/suggestions/pocs and I appreciate their help providing us quick solutions for our problems.
  • Support/Helpdesk team is really helpful
  • Precise documentation
  • Availability of latest devices and platform
  • Daily summary reports for our test project execution
  • Documentation to be updated with latest versions of tools
  • Support engineers for languages other than JAVA, Python (specifically ruby)
  • Enterprise features to be available for usage - (IP / Location set for mobile)
  • APP AUTOMATE
  • OBJECT INSPECTOR
  • ITS DOCUMENTATION
  • faster release cycle
  • quick bug identification even before stage
  • faster execution of test cases
  • parallel execution of test cases
  • huge list of devices and platform availability
I would still find a space for improvement here, as we saw few glitches in app automate with inspect and understand that it will be improve as its still in beta version. Also, there are some places where you find yourself outdated with the documentation or the framework example which is in documentation is not updated, so team has to work fix that first to be able to run the test successfully.
I like to underline this, BrowserStack team has done a great job providing a one stop platform for users to perform testing for AUT which helps us identify bugs before hand and helps us go with smoother sprint releases. Secondly, it saves a lot of time and effort of manual QAs with the percent of 80% that helps manual team to focus on sprint rather than going throughout regression test cases.
I have used Saucelabs with Jenkins and would say both of them are really comprehensive. Yet I suggested BrowserStack to our customers and team since I have used it recently and felt it easy to use and implement Tests on it. BrowserStack support team is another reason behind why I choose BrowserStack over other brands.

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?

Yes

Would you buy BrowserStack again?

Yes

As a test automation lead/framework dev, I would highly recommend BrowserStack to team members, as it helped us rapidly build test scenarios for 500+ scenarios. Its support team is doing well and are available via chat or email. It also has new devices/os platforms available on daily basis.

Using BrowserStack

6 - Our Team works for a United States based client a leading specialized distributor of waterworks and fire products. We are from the specialized quality engineering team expertise in test automation make sure that our functional critical test cases for our mobile application are automated. Reducing the overall effort to 80% of manual regression test execution cycle. With browserstack we make sure our framework is ease in setup, well documented and we acquire highly productive approaches to define the best design in work for the automation timeline.
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With browserstack, it also requires a knowledge of Ruby, Cucumber, Appium, Framework expertise, Automation basics and Debugging skills that is currently been utilized with in our project.
However, with browserstack documentation it is easy to identify issues and help them resolve. They also have a good online ticket support and chat support system that could be utilized anytime.
  • Mobile Test Case Automation
  • Reducing Regression Testing Cycle
  • Critical functionality Testing on Stage
  • Reduce time and effort of Manual QA
  • Finding bugs before Live
  • Parallel execution of test scenarios reduced the execution cycle impressively
  • Fusion of Browerstack queue feature usage with our in house framework re run capability
  • Better reporting with screenshots
  • App live for debugging
  • Highly reusable components that runs independently in browserstack
  • More parallels in lesser cost
  • Device Geolocation feature
  • Website testing in mobile devices
We like browserstack and loved the fact that our framework is ease in
setup, well established and is utilized appropriately within the organization which is resulting us in good test coverage and helping us find defects before live. It also reduced around 35 hours of manual testing effort which is reduced to around 8 hours and that executes daily as an overnight execution.

Evaluating BrowserStack and Competitors

  • Scalability
  • Integration with Other Systems
  • Ease of Use
  • Other
Browserstack provides a huge list of devices with their different android versions, so we get options to choose for our application under test with no additional setup needs, easy to use and highly interoperability among multiple languages and tools. In today's world scenario, Browserstack is one of your best friend to help you test with multiple devices and operating systems.
When we were looking for our requirements we had few names, with Browserstack. Though we had a plan to identify the best tool by choosing among multiple options with their pricing. We found browserstack is a bit costlier but seems promising with its feature. We are definitely happy to see how it is being fully utilized and looking forward to renew with better offerings.

BrowserStack Implementation

BrowserStack Support

Overall, the support team is great and actively respond to your queries.
ProsCons
Quick Resolution
Good followup
Knowledgeable team
Problems get solved
Kept well informed
No escalation required
Immediate help available
Support understands my problem
Support cares about my success
Quick Initial Response
None
No, we have a inhouse team with high expertise in tools and tech required for developing the framework. We go to support only for browserstack issues.
Browserstack team, actively helped us with the issue when we were unable to automate a use case with check deposit. It is the time when support team pitched in and helped us with the support document for image injection and helped us throughout with the process. We found many other failures too, browserstack team did tweaks and helped us find the best solution for our problem. Finally we were able to automate our use case and we are thankful for it.

Using BrowserStack

We are utilizing browserstack with 110%. Our team acquires all the knowledge to automate mobile automation use case for which we have purchased this tool for. This tool gives us a full glimpse of our test automation execution in dashboard section where we execute our parallel execution for regression and can find the test results in terms of passed failed script issues.
ProsCons
Like to use
Relatively simple
Easy to use
Technical support not required
Well integrated
Consistent
Quick to learn
Convenient
Feel confident using
Familiar
None
  • App Live - debugging and its usage
  • App Automate - for Mobile automation development and execution from your own scripts
  • Device testing
  • Regression executions
  • Glitches sometimes while debugging in app live
Yes - It is extremely useful when you have an option called as App Live. This helps us automate our use cases.