10 Best Online Cross-Browser Testing Tools in 2024
In this blog post, before proceeding to discuss the top 10 best available online tools that are used to perform cross browser testing, let’s understand the concept of cross browser testing first in order to proceed our discussion further.
Concept of Cross Browser Testing
As the name suggests, cross browser testing is a non functional type of testing that is used to check the compatibility of a particular web application or site across different web browsers. The primary goal of performing this type of testing is to identify inconsistent failures in the application that is under test.
Top 10 Best Available Online Cross Browser Testing Tools
Now, we’ll go over the top ten online tools used by QA engineers to perform cross-browser testing, one by one, and learn about their unique features in depth: –
1. SmartBear Bitbar
SmartBear Bitbar is a cloud-based mobile and web application testing platform which allows the QA engineers to perform cross browser testing application across the most popular and latest versions of Web Browsers and Mobile Devices used in the IT industry.
Key features of SmartBear Bitbar
a) SmartBear Bitbar supports parallel testing across different web browsers like Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Edge, Safari and mobile devices which works on Android, iPhone & IOS platforms etc.
b) SmartBear Bitbar provides one cloud environment to test all types of application whether it is Web, Mobile, Native & Hybrid etc.
c) SmartBear Bitbar can be easily integrated with CI/CD pipeline tools such as Jenkins, Bamboo, Circle CI, Travis CI etc, to achieve continuous integration & continuous delivery/deployment.
2. Katalon Studio
Katalon Studio is currently one of the most popular automation testing software tool used by QA engineers to perform automated cross browser testing across different web browsers and mobile devices with latest versions.
Key features of Katalon Studio
a) Katalon Studio is currently the best alternative of Selenium-Appium and one of the most popular tool used by QA engineers to perform automated cross browser testing on Web, Mobile, API, Software & Desktop based applications across multiple machines or OS platforms like MS Windows, macOS & Linux/Unix etc.
b) Katalon Studio is easily compatible with latest versions of popular web browsers like Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Edge, Internet Explorer etc.
c) Katalon Studio can be easily integrated with CI/CD pipeline tools or platforms such as Jenkins, CircleCI, Bamboo, TeamCity & Travis CI etc to achieve continuous integration delivery/deployment.
d) Katalon Studio also supports integration with various collaboration tools or platforms such as Git, Micorsoft Teams and Slack.
e) Katalon Studio also supports integration with various execution tools or platforms such as SauceLabs, BrowserStack, Selenium Grid and Kobiton.
f) Katalon Studio also supports integration with other SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) management tools or platforms such as JIRA, TestRail and TestLink.
3. Selenium
Selenium even though less preferred than Katalon Studio now a days is still an important tool used by QA engineers to perform cross browser testing on web, mobile, native and hybrid type applications across different web browsers and OS platforms using multiple scripting languages.
Key features of Selenium
a) Selenium is an open source free of cost automation software tool used by QA engineers to perform automated cross browser testing across different web browsers which are most popularly used with latest versions like Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Edge, Internet Explorer, Safari etc.
b) Selenium supports multiple scripting languages like Java, Python, C sharp or C#, Ruby, Perl, JavaScript etc. to perform automated cross browser testing on different machines or OS platforms like Windows, macOS, Linux/Unix etc.
c) Selenium provides two additional software namely Appium & Selendroid to perform cross browser testing on mobile devices which works on Android, iPhone & IOS technology etc.
d) Selenium has three major components namely Selenium IDE for record and playback of scripts interaction across all different web browsers, Selenium Webdriver for doing automation through different scripting languages across all different web browsers & Selenium Grid to perform parallel testing across all different web browsers.
e) Selenium can be integrated with multiple frameworks building tools like Maven for source code compilation, Junit for managing test cases and generating reports, TestNG for testing application & reporting purposes.
f) Selenium also supports integration with CI/CD pipeline tools like Jenkins, CircleCI and Bamboo etc., to achieve continuous integration and continuous delivery/deployment.
4. Lambda Test
Lambda Test is a cloud-based testing platform used to perform cross browser testing by QA engineers on web-mobile based applications across different web browsers & mobile devices with latest versions and most popularly used today in Computer Software & IT services industry.
Key features of Lambda Test
a) Using Lambda Test cloud-based cross browser testing software tool, QA engineers can easily perform compatibility testing to check the compatibility of the application which is under test.
b) Using Lambda Test cloud-based cross browser testing software tool, QA engineers can run or execute automation test scripts based on Selenium having secured, scalable and reliable cloud automation.
c) Using Lambda Test cloud-based cross browser testing software tool, QA engineers can
perform live interactive cross browser testing on web based applications for real time browser environments across different machines or OS platforms like MS Windows, macOS & Linux/Unix.
d) Using Lambda Test cloud-based cross browser testing software tool, QA engineers can perform live interactive cross browser testing on mobile based applications for real time browser environments across different mobile devices which works on Android & IOS like platforms.
e) Using Lambda Test cloud-based cross browser testing software tool, QA engineers can easily do integration with CI/CD pipeline tools like Jenkins, CircleCI and Bamboo etc., to achieve continuous integration and continuous delivery/deployment.
f) Using Lambda Test cloud-based cross browser testing software tool, QA engineers can easily do integration with bug tracking tools like JIRA, BitBucket, GitHub & Slack etc.
5. SmartBear TestComplete
SmartBear TestComplete is a UI (User Interface) functional automation testing platform through which QA engineers can create and automate various software test types.
Key features of SmartBear TestComplete
a) Using SmartBear TestComplete UI automation testing tool, QA engineers can perform these different testing techniques:-
Keyword driven testing – This type of testing approach can be implemented by automation testers using SmartBear TestComplete automation tool who are not proficient in scripting or coding.
Based on using keywords automation testers using SmartBear TestComplete can perform action on the application which is under test.
Data driven testing – This type of testing approach can be implemented by automation testers using SmartBear TestComplete automation tool through automation of test scripts using multiple programming or scripting languages like Python, JavaScript, VB Script etc from various data sources such as Excel files, CSV files, ODBC sources etc.
Scripted testing – This type of testing approach can be implemented by automation testers using SmartBear TestComplete automation tool through a built-in code editor provided by SmartBear TestComplete automation tool which helps automation testers to write scripts manually without using any third party tool for writing automation test scripts.
Distrbuted testing – This type of testing approach can be implemented by automation testers using SmartBear TestComplete automation tool so that several automation tests can run across various virtual machines or OS platforms.
b) Using SmartBear TestComplete UI automation testing tool, QA engineers who are not proficient in scripting languages can create script free test records to replay these UI automated functional tests.
c) Using SmartBear TestComplete UIautomation testing tool, QA engineers can easily do integration with bug tracking tools like JIRA, BitBucket, GitHub & Slack etc.
6. HeadSpin
HeadSpin is a cloud-based testing platform and it is the best tool used to perform cross browser testing by QA engineers in which the main purpose of using this tool is to remotely run thousands of real devices on the cloud.
Key features of HeadSpin
a) Using HeadSpin cloud-based cross browser testing platform, QA engineers who performs the test on thousands of real devices are 100% accurate.
b) Using HeadSpin cloud-based cross browser testing platform, QA engineers can easily do integration HeadSpin with other testing software tools like Selenium, Appium & Appium Inspector.
Also HeadSpin cloud-based testing tool supports integration with other framework building tools such as Junit, Cucumber, TestNG etc.
c) Using HeadSpin cloud-based cross browser testing software tool, QA engineers can easily do integration of HeadSpin with bug tracking tools like JIRA, BitBucket, GitHub & Slack etc.
d) Using HeadSpin cloud-based cross browser testing software tool, QA engineers can easily do integration with CI/CD pipeline tools like Jenkins etc, to achieve continuous integration and continuous delivery/deployment.
7. Browsershots
Browsershots is a free and open source cross browser testing software tool used to test compatibility of a website across multiple web browsers and machines or OS platforms.
Key features of Browsershots
a) Browsershots is a browser compatibility testing software tool which is used by QA engineers to run cross browser compatibility tests across different browsers near about 200 browser versions.
b) Browsershots allows QA engineers to test website on any browser and operating system.
c) Browsershots allows QA engineers to take screenshot of the test performed on the website application in almost 61 different web browsers and Operating systems.
d) Browsershots can be easily integrated by QA engineers with various bug tracking tools like JIRA, Slack, Github, BitBucket & Bugzilla etc.
e) Browsershots also supports mobile or device based testing as well which have different mobile based OS platforms like Android, IOS and iPhone etc.
8. Browser-Stack
Browser-Stack is a cloud based software tool used by QA engineers to perform “cross-browser testing” on web-based, mobile-based and desktop based software applications across different web-mobile based machines or OS platforms.
Key features of Browser-Stack
a) Browser-Stack is a cloud-based browser compatibility testing software tool which is used by QA engineers to run cross browser compatibility tests across different browsers and operating systems.
b) Browser-Stack due to its cloud-based feature doesn’t require any installation from the scratch because it has already pre-installed Devtools which are used by QA engineers to perform cross-browser testing.
c) Browser-Stack can be easily integrated by QA engineers with various bug tracking tools like JIRA, Slack, Github, BitBucket & Bugzilla etc.
d) Browser-Stack can be easily integrated by QA engineers with various CI/CD pipeline tools such as Jenkins, Bamboo, Circle CI & Travis CI etc. to achieve continuous integration & continuous delivery/deployment.
e) Browser-Stack can be easily integrated by QA engineers with other testing software tools like Selenium, Appium & Appium Inspector as it supports both manual and automation testing.
9. Sauce Labs
Sauce Labs is a cloud-based testing platform used to perform “cross-browser testing” by QA engineers on web-mobile based applications across different web browsers & mobile devices with latest versions and most popularly used today in Computer Software & IT services industry.
Key features of Sauce Labs
a) Sauce Labs is today one of the leading cloud-based “cross-browser testing” software tool used by QA engineers to test web based and mobile based applications.
b) Sauce Labs software tool allows the QA engineers to run tests on the cloud across 260 different browser platforms and devices.
c) Sauce Labs also supports mobile or device based testing as well which have different mobile based OS platforms like Android, IOS and iPhone etc.
d) Sauce Labs can be easily integrated by QA engineers with various bug tracking tools like JIRA, Slack, Github, BitBucket & Bugzilla etc.
e) Sauce Labs can be easily integrated by QA engineers with various CI/CD pipeline tools such as Jenkins, Bamboo, Circle CI & Travis CI etc. to achieve continuous integration & continuous delivery/deployment.
10. Test Grid
Test Grid is a cloud-based testing platform used to perform cross-browser testing by QA engineers on web-mobile based applications across different web browsers & mobile devices with latest versions and most popularly used today in Computer Software & IT services industry.
Key features of Test Grid
a) Test Grid is today one of the leading cloud-based cross-browser testing software tool used by QA engineers to test web based and mobile based applications.
b) Test Grid allows QA engineers to run automation tests on a secured, scalable and reliable cloud-based platform known as Selenium Grid.
c) Test Grid allows QA engineers to create and execute test cases even without any prior knowledge of programming languages.
d) Test Grid supports performance & security testing technique to improve or enhance the performance & security of the website or web application which is under test.
e) Test Grid can be easily integrated by QA engineers with various bug tracking tools like JIRA, Slack, Github, BitBucket & Bugzilla etc. & also with CI/CD pipeline tools like Jenkins, Bamboo, Circle CI & Travis CI etc. to achieve continuous integration & continuous delivery/deployment.
Conclusion
So, in this way, we have discussed about the top 10 best online software tools that are popularly used today to perform “cross-browser testing” by QA professionals working in the computer software and IT services industry. Choosing or selecting any of these tools depends on user requirements because each of these tools has its own strengths and weaknesses.
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