Today any website, a web service or any web application you design is
expected to be compatible with the browsers like Opera, Chrome, Safari,
and Mozilla Firefox apart from the Internet Explorer or even Netscape
navigator. When it comes to testing your website rendering on multiple
browsers – the terms to keep in mind is “Cross Browser Testing”.
Cross-browser testing ensures that a web object (for example – a
website, web service, scripts, HTML code snippets) renders or loads with
all versions of all browsers properly, thereby delivering consistent
user experience. When you try to check the ability of the web program to
run on any browser, you subject it to ‘Cross-browser testing’. Many
tools, plug-ins and even online apps are used for Cross-browser testing.
There are both Free and Paid available for the same. In this article, i
am going to introduce you to two interesting applications that let you
do cross-browser testing of websites easily without you having to
install anything on your computer.
1. Browserling
Quite an appealing interface with simple workings that lets you Test
the ‘cross-browser’ compatibility of any website right from your browser
- Start testing your website for Cross-browser compatibility in three
easy steps. That too with all the versions of IE, Netscape navigator,
Mozilla Firefox, Safari and Chrome browsers
- Surf to www.browserling.com, type a website in the ‘text box’ at the top, pick the browser and its version and hit Go.
- Once done, what you see is a fully interactive website where you can practically do anything like click on any link in the website, do a search etc.,
- Amidst testing, you can also switch to any version of the same or a different browser.
How Browserling works?
The browserling team hosts all the browsers from the super fast
Windows VMs (Virtual Machines). You just interact with these browsers
via a Graphical Web console provided by browserling.
As you type in, the keyboard and the mouse data goes to their servers
and the graphical frame buffer is output to you. No installation of
plug- ins needed.
Pricing
To use this wonderful service, all you need is to create an account.
When you do that, you get 10 minutes session on the browsers. If you do
not want to sign in, you get a 5-minute session.
Wish to have unlimited browsing sessions? Take up the only plan available called ‘Developer plan @ 20$/month.
2. Spoon
Spoon, one of the pioneers in application
virtualization and cloud computing technologies, is the repository of
thousands of lightweight plug-ins that you can install from the web (no
installs needed) that facilitate testing of applications instantly and
easily.
Among its several apps, cross-browser testing tool is one that
helps you to check your website’s compatibility on several popular
browser versions like Safari, Chrome, Opera and Mozilla Firefox for
free.
- Run your website from within Spoon.net to pin down compatibility issues and make better comparisons of browser hassle free.
- Click on any version of a browser that will take you the dedicated page of the browser version that lays out the specifics of that browser.
- Click on ‘Launch Now Spoon’ plug-in to carry out the testing
There are a plenty of cross-browser testing tools but some are just
not affordable. Some lack great features and are just used to test the
IE browser alone. Browserling and Spoon are cost effective for their
good services. A glitch is that it looks like Spoon.net has no support
for Internet Explorer browsers as of now. One can expect this to roll
out soon, as no doubt, IE is one of the widely used browsers. For
Browserling, it is still in the Beta version and one can imagine a lot
more of features coming in the final version. Mac OS support is missing
right now in Browserling.In addition, we hope that these tools bring in
some features like testing on: various OS/Browser combos, email clients,
better speed and longer free sessions.
Hi.. william . thanks for sharing a information ontestingtools
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