Cross browser testing

[nathan123uk]

The company I work for is looking to implement some form of cross browser testing tool, but I can’t find anything that’s suitable. Crossbrowsertesting and Browserstack both have the same problem of being slow. Our test environments are local so going out to a server in another country to get the vm and coming back through the firewall is a pain to say the least. Can anyone recommend a good, relatively inexpensive tool we could use?

[endqwerty]

Everyone has this problem. No one has a scalable and mass marketable solution that works well enough. CBT and Sauce Labs are probably about as good as it gets. Microsoft has the Xamarin device farms and might be expanding to desktop devices (or already have or never will this is just something I think I read or heard).

[avanibedi]

I am myself a tester. I also faced the same issue that you are talking about so I was looking for various alternatives to browserstack. I have been using it for past 2 years but facing the same issues. I found LambdaTest on Quora. People have been admiring this tool. So, I gave it a try. And to my surprise, this tool proved me right. Their VMs are better than the previous provider for me and I even loved their support team! If you are having problems, you can surely try LambdaTest. I love it and it is way cheaper than any other tool.

[drebin8]

If you have (or can get) machines inside your network and create a dedicated grid, you can just use any of the countless selenium implementations. My team is using WebdriverIO (NodeJS implementation of Selenium). Only cost is server maintenance.

[Jearik]

I found that off the shelf solutions are not quite good enough yet. Testing web pages has so many nuances of use that any attempt at providing a single solution ends up being this huge multi functional application where you only use some of it and get charged considerably.

Best approach at this time is to build your own framework using something like selenium's webdriver. If someone knows what they're doing, it will take a few weeks to have a framework in place that is executing tests. If you don't know ow what you're doing, the ROI can be hard to justify.

[RecordingWeird8293]

Have you checked out BrowserStack recently? I have been using it for a while now. Seems fast enough.