Item: BrowserStack
Rating: 8
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with BrowserStack

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use BrowserStack to develop and test our internal and external websites. BrowserStack saves us the cost of having to purchase a wide range of devices to mirror what our users and clients use when interacting with our websites. We mostly use it for manual styling and JS testing across different browsers and mobile OSes.

Pros and Cons

Pros

It has the best range of devices and browser combos
Many useful ancillary services
Very responsive emulators/real devices in the browser

Cons

Documentation on some services is iffy - browser automation testing docs were not that useful
Browser versions come and go - BrowserStack will go from having a particular combo of OS and browser version available but then a few months later it will not be available
Would be nice to have proper custom configs of browser and OS where possible

Most Important Features

Manual browser testing
Having a huge range of devices to test on
Browser automation testing

Return on Investment

Lower costs compared to buying devices to test on ($1000s saved)
Lower dev time spent on testing (saves a few hours a week)

Challenges Overcome

We have not had the budget to buy all the popular devices in use each year, and so have had to make do with browser testing on phones available in the office from colleagues. BrowserStack obviously improves on that massively.

Product Usage

Automate

BrowserStack's browser automation has been useful for doing visual regression testing. Previously, we had setups to do this that had been made manually (PhantomJS etc.) but BrowserStack makes it easier for our devs to use.

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?

Yes

Did implementation of BrowserStack go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy BrowserStack again?

Yes

Likelihood to Recommend

BrowserStack excels at allowing devs and QAs to test on the largest range of devices possible, all while being performant and fairly easy to use. There are plenty of additional features and services that many teams can find use for, and since many are included on the various plans it makes for pretty good value especially for smaller teams.

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