Continuous testing on popular browsers

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Hey Yasser, if you have the time to learn & setup a new tool, code a few tests, and setup a CI server that runs them regularly, I'd recommend Cypress.

If you prefer to have more control and not have to pay money for over 500 test runs per month, Puppeteer + Jest + jest-image-snapshots on a CI server is a good bet. The downside is that it's quite difficult to record videos, and tests usually end up pretty hard to debug and maintain.

Alternatively, you can use Browse AI. I'm probably biased! Because I made it! but I believe it's the perfect product for people and teams that:

1. Want a quick turnkey solution that can be setup by ANYONE with no coding knowledge,
2. Don't want to spend much time on maintaining tests and prefer to have some AI maintain tests for them*, and
3. Don't want to spend too much money.

*We have some pretty complex stuff going on behind the scenes to maintain your tests. For example, for each element you interact with during a test, we generate dozens and sometimes hundreds of selectors, and automatically adjust them as you make changes to your web application. This way you rarely have to re-record a test.

That being said, Browse AI doesn't do a couple of things you asked for:

• It currently doesn't run the test on different mobile OS'es and browsers. It runs them on a recent version of Chrome.
• It runs them on the same viewport you had when you recorded the test. So if you want to test in different viewports, you have to record a new test for each viewport.

I was going to add a demo video of using Browse AI for automated testing to the site in the next few days. It's not all ready yet, but I just uploaded it on Vimeo for you so you can take a look and see if it solves the problem for you: https://vimeo.com/435622035

Hope this helps.

I worked at a company that used https://saucelabs.com/. From what I know it worked pretty well but there was always hesitation because it was so expensive.

You could also try https://www.lambdatest.com/. I don't have any experience with that one.

cypress.io is an awesome alternative to selenium. They rebuilt browser testing from the ground up using new browser APIs and I think it's way easier to use and set up tests. I haven't used their hosted testing solution, though.

It seems like for any of these, the services are very expensive because it's pretty intensive to run the tests in real environments. You've got to weigh the pros and cons of paying the price of these hosted platforms and rolling your own with some automation tools and on site computers.

Personally, when I get to the point of setting up testing like this, I'm going to try setting up a local CI/CD setup on an old mac mini and windows desktop I have laying around.

Shameless plug, I have a productized service https://uppington.io that you basically sign up and someone will handle the creating tests for you