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  • BrowserStack Acquires Percy to Deliver Visual Testing for Developers

    Acquisition helps Agile teams quickly and efficiently launch bug-free software

    SAN FRANCISCO – July 9, 2020 – BrowserStack, the most reliable web and mobile app testing platform on the market, today announced the acquisition of Percy, the world’s leading visual testing and review platform. With this alliance, developers and quality assurance (QA) teams who face the time-consuming challenge of catching visual bugs manually, can now run automated visual tests on BrowserStack’s high-performance platform so they can quickly ship high-quality software and applications.

    Today, developer teams deploy production code up to 100 times a day. However, these teams often have to manually hunt for visual bugs, which can be both time-consuming and error-prone. Percy has addressed this issue with visual testing that provides a complete visual overview, capturing screenshots, providing comparisons against the baseline and highlighting any visual changes.

    “Users are often one glitch away from leaving a website. BrowserStack’s mission is to empower developers so they can create amazing web experiences,” said Ritesh Arora, co-founder and CEO of BrowserStack. “By joining forces with Percy, we can instill confidence in developers so they can become more efficient and catch visual bugs before customers have a chance to use the software. We’re thrilled with this acquisition which represents the next step in our journey to becoming the single platform that developers rely on for all of their testing needs.”

    BrowserStack’s acquisition of Percy will deliver several benefits that developers can immediately take advantage of, including:

    • Catching Visual Bugs: Developers can deliver pixel-perfect software with each and every code change, ensuring that bugs are caught and addressed prior to any software release.

    • Turning error-prone manual reviews into fool-proof deployment: Manual testing can be replaced with reliable visual testing, so changes can be reviewed quickly, while stabilizing other elements of the application development.

    • Improving Developer Efficiency – Time can be saved by avoiding manually hunting for visual changes.

    Developers can access Percy visual testing by using their BrowserStack credentials.

    “We’re thrilled to be part of BrowserStack and deliver an unparalleled visual testing experience to customers,” said Mike Fotinakis, co-founder and CEO of Percy. “We have a rich history working with Agile teams at Basecamp, Canva and Shopify, among others, helping them quickly deliver visually stunning applications.  Integrating with BrowserStack will help ensure that testing workflows are run with confidence and efficiency.”

    About BrowserStack

    BrowserStack is the most reliable web and mobile app testing platform on the market today. Founded by developers, for developers, BrowserStack allows users to quickly and easily test their mobile and web applications across thousands of devices and desktop browsers in order to ensure their software meets and exceeds organizational and customer expectations. More than 25,000 customers around the globe rely on BrowserStack. Founded in 2011, BrowserStack’s North American headquarters are located in San Francisco. The privately held company is backed by Accel.

    For more information visit https://www.browserstack.com.

    About Percy

    Percy is the world’s first truly continuous visual testing platform, helping enable product teams to ship software faster and with confidence in every visual change to their application.

  • BrowserStack Announces its Open Source Program to Drive Community Innovation

    Free Testing on Real Device Cloud Now Available for Open Source Projects, including jQuery and AngularJS

    SAN FRANCISCO – June 13, 2018 — BrowserStack, the most reliable web and mobile app testing platform on the market, today announced its enhanced open source program, offering free testing of open source software on the BrowserStack Real Device Cloud. BrowserStack is doubling down on its support for open source projects with full and unlimited access to the BrowserStack platform and its capabilities. The goal is to empower open source developers with the tools and infrastructure necessary to test with speed, accuracy and scale.

    “BrowserStack is committed to strengthening our ties with the open source community and is dedicated to giving back to the developers that rely on open source projects,” said Ritesh Arora, co-founder and CEO of BrowserStack. “The open source community remains an important wellspring of some of the most innovative ideas impacting software development. We believe that, through access to powerful tools like BrowserStack, more open source projects come to fruition and succeed.”

    BrowserStack has supported thousands of open source projects, sponsors groundbreaking projects like Selenium (through Software Freedom Conservatory) and jQuery (through the JS Foundation), and is relied upon by top technology companies such as Mozilla and Google for in-house open source projects. All types of open source projects—including web frameworks, web libraries, web applications, mobile apps and more— leverage BrowserStack for their testing needs every day.

    BrowserStack envisions a world in which all software is thoroughly tested and every developer can deliver amazing user experiences. The launch of an enhanced program for open source developers is a strategic step towards fulfilling that vision and advancing BrowserStack’s position as the world’s most trusted testing infrastructure.

    Through BrowserStack’s enhanced open source program, developers can test and debug code earlier in the development cycle and ship releases faster with the confidence that their websites and apps will work seamlessly across every user interface. Results include bug-free releases and higher quality software, leading to higher rates of adoption and ultimately a better customer experience. Using BrowserStack, developers can focus on innovation and building better software, rather than maintaining cumbersome and costly in-house device labs.

    New features of BrowserStack’s open source program include:

    • Access to All Products.Get free, unlimited access to all BrowserStack products by default: Live, Automate, App Live, Screenshots and App Automate, a newly launched solution for automated testing of mobile apps.
    • More Users and Parallels.Speed up testing by inviting more project contributors and running more concurrent manual and automated tests. User and parallel limits are increased to five.
    • Real Device Testing.Leverage the full scale of BrowserStack’s cloud of more than 1,200 real iOS and Android devices, and achieve more accurate testing results by testing on real devices instead of emulators.
    • Lifetime Access.Test continuously for the duration of your project.

    BrowserStack Open Source Program in Action:

    Zurb Foundation (27,036 GitHub Stars)

    Zurb Foundation is the most advanced responsive front-end framework in the world, providing complete, customizable components to developers. The Zurb Foundation uses BrowserStack across 18 browser versions to support both manual and automated testing to ensure quality before every release. BrowserStack helps Zurb Foundation run continuous testing across all of its supported browsers.

    Discourse (25,030 GitHub Stars)

    Discourse is an open source forum and community discussion platform that has been used to create more than 3.3 million posts and serve 245 million page views over the last 30 days. Discourse is a fully remote team, with hundreds of contributors, and uses BrowserStack to track down hard-to-find issues that apply only to certain OS and browser combinations. With BrowserStack, it is able to quickly test without the need for VMs or outside devices, without ever leaving the browser.

    Video.js (21,177 GitHub Stars)

    Video.js is an extensible JavaScript and CSS library that makes it easier to work with and build on HTML5 video. The Video.js project uses BrowserStack for manual testing with Travis Continuous Integration for running tests via the Karma test runner. Tests run over a wide variety of browsers (particularly older browsers) and BrowserStack has helped with bug prevention prior to release.

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    About BrowserStack

    BrowserStack is the most reliable web and mobile app testing platform on the market today. Founded by developers, for developers, BrowserStack allows users to quickly and easily test their mobile and web applications across thousands of devices and desktop browsers in order to ensure their software meets and exceeds organizational and customer expectations. More than 25,000 customers around the globe rely on BrowserStack. Founded in 2011, BrowserStack’s North American headquarters are located in San Francisco. The privately held company is backed by Accel.

    For more information visit https://www.browserstack.com.

  • BrowserStack Offers Free Microsoft Edge Browser Testing

    BrowserStack Offers Free Microsoft Edge Browser Testing

    Testing is a major element of development. Without effective testing, you’re essentially releasing beta software and forcing your customers to be the guinea pigs in discovering any flaws or issues. But Microsoft is making it easier for developers to test how things behave and execute within the Edge browser, thanks to a new partnership with BrowserStack.

    BrowserStack provides live, web-based browser testing with access to all variations of mobile and desktop browsers across all operating systems and platforms. The company claims to offer more than 1,100 desktop browser variants, including the latest versions of Internet Explorer, Edge, Chrome and Firefox on its cloud-based infrastructure.

    BrowserStack is free to open source projects, but commercial use of BrowserStack generally requires a subscription. It offers plans as low as $12.50 per month for freelancers and $2,499 per month or more for larger enterprise teams. However, for the Edge browser, BrowserStack testing is now available for free, thanks to Microsoft.

    “Until now, developers who need to test against a specific version of Microsoft Edge have been limited to local virtual machines, or PCs with Windows 10 installed. However, there are many developers that don’t have easy access to Microsoft Edge for testing purposes,” Microsoft wrote in a blog post announcing the partnership.

    As a result, developers now can sign in to BrowserStack and test Microsoft Edge for free. Developers can test sites and apps in the cloud-based Edge browser as if it were a locally installed instance, even if they’re working from macOS, Linux or another operating system that doesn’t natively support Edge.

    To enable faster, automated testing, Microsoft is also offering BrowserStack’s Automate testing service for free. Microsoft describes it in the blog post, “This method of testing allows you to run up to 10 Microsoft Edge test sessions via script, which can integrate with your local test runners via the standardized WebDriver API. You can even configure your machine so that the cloud-based browser can see your local development environment.”

    Developers will have access to three versions of Microsoft Edge within BrowserStack—the two most recent stable releases, and the most recent “Preview” release (the version available in the most current Windows Insider Preview Fast ring build). Testing for Microsoft Edge on the Windows 10 Anniversary Update is available now. EdgeHTML 15 will be available in the Windows 10 Creators Update—which will start rolling out to users on April 11. That version will be available on BrowserStack shortly after release.

    I hope the developers of Tweetdeck will take advantage of this service. I use Edge as my primary browser. It worked fine up until the Anniversary Update, but since then it has suffered from memory leaks, lags and crashes—but it seems to be related almost exclusively to Tweetdeck. I’ve never been sure whether the blame should be placed on Microsoft or Tweetdeck, but now that this service is being offered for free, hopefully the Tweetdeck developers can use it to identify and resolve whatever issues are causing the problem.

    — Tony Bradley