The 5 Best Cross Browser Testing Tools for Vastly Improved Web Apps

With everything going digital and world transforming into a virtual space, your website says a lot about your business. Additionally, that means that cross browser testing tools will have a lot to say about your website.

Did you know that all the browsers render websites a little differently? Some of them don’t have the support for the features you want to use. In other cases, browsers do not work with the same extensions or plugins. This means that if a website works fine on Google Chrome, it will also run the same way on Opera, Microsoft Edge, or other browsers.

Although Chrome holds 80.3% of browser popularity (as of April’2019), you should not take your other visitors for granted. It is important that you test your website on all the browsers to ensure the best performance and user experience. This process is known as cross browser testing.

In this article, we will explain what cross browser testing is all about. We will also offer a list of 5 great cross browser testing tools. These will help testers to improve browser testing.

What is Cross Browser Testing?

Cross Browser Testing is a method of assuring quality and performance for web applications across multiple browsers. It checks websites design, code, and overall functionality with a diverse range of operating systems and devices used by the customer base.

The entire testing process makes sure that the website delivers a consistent user experience everywhere, not just on your preferred browser. Here are some of the elements on which you need to test your website:

• CSS Validation
• Page styles and data formats
• Font size validation
• Page zoom in and out functionality
• Header and footer
• Ajax and JQuery functionality
• The layout of the page in different resolutions

But how do you perform cross browser testing?

There are several cross browser testing tools present in the industry to help you check your web app across different browsers. Although all of them minimize the testing efforts, here are the top five cross browser testing tools that you should consider:

1. BrowseEmAll

BrowseEmAll is one of most reliable browser testing tools which focuses on screenshots, code analytics and live testing on the local machine.

It also helps you to optimize your website for mobile devices, find cross browser issues, automate cross browser testing, and test local pages and raw HTML files. This tool offers you a complete testing environment enabling you to check the website’s compatibility from your desktop.

Further, it tests your website across desktop browsers including Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Safari, Opera, Firefox, and other ones including WebKit and Gecko. You can also check the web app on various mobile simulators such as iPhone 4, Android, iPad, and Android tablet.

But this cross browser testing tool will not enable you to test you on all operating systems and browser combinations.

2. Experitest

The SeeTest continuous testing platform by Experitest lets you test the functionality and performance of your web app across 1000+ mobile and desktop browsers. Featuring a GUI based test development interface, it enables you to run automated visual tests with ease.

SeeTest tool runs Selenium & Appium tests and automates your cross browser testing. It supports visual testing and fixes all the design issues before production. Further, it lets you interact with your app in real time and debug it.

The tool supports OCR text visual validation that checks the visibility of entire text across different browser windows. One feature that makes it worth the try is that it shortens test cycles by running hundreds of test in parallel.

With this tool, you can easily deploy high-quality websites by integrating cross browser testing into CI/CD tools. Click here for a free trial.

3.Functionize

Functionize is an AI-powered cross browser testing platform that allows you to test your website on all the major browsers in minutes.

It supports parallel browser testing and tests the app on a large number of browser version OS combinations. But the number of browsers is not specified. The tool works on all Selenium based errors. It also reduces visual based test failures, irrespective of density and complexity of the page.

With this tool, if you set up a test for one browser, you don’t have to do it for other browsers that save you a great deal of time.

The entire platform is autonomous so you can spend more time analyzing the results. Moreover, with test creation, maintenance, and performance solutions, it turns the testing process into a competitive advantage and accelerates your GTM code.

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4. MultiBrowser

MultiBrowser is another great cross browser testing tool that lets you test your web app on the standalone web and mobile browsers emulators. Web browsers include Internet Explorer, Safari, Chrome, and Firefox. And the mobile emulators allow you to debug the site on iPhone, Android, and iPad.

This tool is also equipped with Screenshot Tester enabling you to compare full-page renderings across local and MultiBrowserCloud browsers. Moreover, its responsive site viewer ensures mobile readiness with one click RWD test that spans numerous device and display resolution, as per your preferences.

But before you use it to test, remember that it is a Windows-only product.

5. LambdaTest

LambdaTest is a cross browser testing cloud that enables you to perform compatibility testing of your websites with ease. With the availability of 2000+ real desktop and mobile browsers, you can use this tool to perform live interactive testing of your locally or public hosted websites.

It also lets you debug in real time with the help of integrated debugging tools. Along with the real-time testing, it also provides your Visual UI testing that comes with screenshots, smart, and responsive testing.

Further, it supports Pixel to Pixel accuracy. That lets you test web page responsiveness on the latest mobile devices and sizes.

Although they don’t have any restrictions on their free plans, it does come with a limitation on a number of test minutes per month. Moreover, it does not have APIs for running screenshots testing.

We hope that this post has armed you with a better understanding of cross-browser testing and tools required for it. You can skim through all the tools, weigh their pros and cons, and choose the one that meets your testing needs the best.

Jonny Steiner – Content Manager