Is there a single software for multiple browser testing?

Question

Hi,

I was interested to know if there in single software which have multiple browser testing facility?

If there is something like that please suggest. I have already heard about browser cam websites which provides screen shots of different browsers. But we need to wait for the screen shot and also it cannot be tested frequently while compiling the HTML & CSS..

So if its a software we can test while compiling. Have anybody aware of that?...

Thanks in advance, Pal

Answer 1

Microsoft has its Expression Web SuperView feature, I know it supports IE 6,7,8 at least, and I heard support for other browsers is either coming or has implementend.

Adobe also has a competing web-based (Flash) product, called BrowserLab. Not sure if it meets your performance requirements, but it looks very interesting.

Answer 2

Yes, its called automated QA. I am only familiar with Selenium Remote Control, but there are applications sold at a fee that could be more efficient.

Answer 3

Microsoft is developing a tool called Expression Web Superpreview, that is supposed to be able to show the page rendered by different browsers, and let you easily compare them.

I've seen a demo of an internal version that rendered using IE and Firefox. There is a trial of an early version available for download, but it only handles IE8 and IE8 in IE7 mode so far.

Answer 4

Like Jongsma, I don't think there is one (can be surprised...). Particularly to cover alternate systems (Linux, MacOS, etc.).

Usual solutions I saw is to have either a farm of computers with various OSes, holding various usual versions of browsers, or a visualization software allowing to sandbox the various versions (I believe Microsoft offers such solution for testing IE versions). Or both, of course!

Answer 5

Try xenocode

Another option which will take time to setup is to use continous integration such as TeamCity to build then deploy your project to a number of vm's and run automated tests using selenium. You can deploy to different platforms and selenium will run tests across different browsers. Takes time to setup but is well worth it.

Answer 6

Browsershots is such a website, but there software is opensource. Maybe you can run there server / client software local. So you don't have the queue and you can automate it.

Answer 7

Hello everyone,

FYI

I have found another one software(IE Tester). It allow testing IE 5.5, 6, 7, 8. You can run the html file while compiling.

Check this link

Similar to this i am expecting some multiple browser testing software.

Answer 8

Have a look at the free, open source tool Selenium, which supports many browsers and can be run as a simple record / playback tool or from code (note the browser compatibility varies a bit depending on which method you choose).

Google uses Selenium in a big way these days; there are plenty of good articles such as this one on their testing blog.

Answer 9

Many projects use Selenium for this.

Selenium uses Google's webdriver as an abstraction for various types of browsers. Browsers currently supported include Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Safari.

Answer 10

If you need fast multi browser screenshot tool - BrowserSeal may be the right tool for you. Check it at http://www.browserseal.com