Product The Road to a New Local Testing Experience In 2019, the BrowserStack Local team jumped on the opportunity to build a production-ready solution to a persistent onboarding problem—in less than 24-hours. Here's how it played out.
Automate Introducing Support for Cypress Tests on BrowserStack On July 1st, 2020, we introduced support for Cypress on BrowserStack Automate, becoming the first cloud infrastructure for running Cypress test automation out-of-the-box. Here's what the integration offers.
Breakpoint Breakpoint Speaker Spotlight: Mike Fotinakis, Percy Mike Fotinakis, Co-Founder and CEO of Percy explains why he built Percy, how the team's vision has changed since inception, and what it's like be a CEO and developer at the same time.
Breakpoint Breakpoint Speaker Spotlight: Alan Richardson, Evil Tester Alan Richardson, Software Testing Consultant tells us what it means to be an 'evil tester', why testers should do things no one else thinks to do, and how you testers can benefit from learning marketing.
Breakpoint Breakpoint Speaker Spotlight: Pekka Klärck, Robot Framework Pekka Klärck, lead developer of Robot Framework tells us how he came up with the idea for the framework and how it has evolved since its creation in 2008.
Breakpoint Breakpoint Speaker Spotlight: Lawrence Mandel, Shopify Lawrence Mandel, Director of Production Engineering at Shopify tells us what it's like to be in a technical leadership role, what young technical leaders should keep in mind, and why he finds the concept of 'antifragility' interesting.
Breakpoint Breakpoint Speaker Spotlight: Abesh Rajasekharan Abesh Rajasekharan, Technology Senior Manager for Thomson Reuters tells us what he's learning as a .NET developer and why testers should think of their role as more than testing.
Breakpoint Breakpoint Speaker Spotlight: Omose Ogala Omose Ogala, Software Engineer in Test at Twitter tells us about his favorite app builder, how he got introduced to testing and how he approaches test driven development.
Breakpoint Breakpoint Speaker Spotlight: Crystal Preston-Watson, Salesforce Crystal Preston-Watson, Quality and Accessibility Engineer at Salesforce tells us why accessibility is important, how it's often overlooked by engineers, and why she moved into QA from front-end development.
Company Announcement: BrowserStack has acquired Percy Ritesh, the co-founder and CEO of BrowserStack, announces the acquisition of Percy—the leading visual testing and review platform.
Breakpoint Breakpoint Speaker Spotlight: Priyanka Halder, GoodRx Priyanka Halder, Sr. Manager of Quality Engineering at GoodRx gets candid about being a Tech Mom, taking up public speaking as a QA expert, and why you should follow influencers.
Breakpoint Breakpoint Speaker Spotlight: Brian Lucas, Optimizely Brian Lucas, senior staff engineer at Optimizely opens up on initiatives that increase developer productivity, the importance of investing in proper build-and-test software, and his new favorite topic: hexagonal architecture.
Breakpoint Breakpoint Speaker Spotlight: David Burns, Selenium David Burns, core contributor at Selenium, explains how he got here and what he does as the Chair for the W3C Browser Testing and Tools Working Group.
Breakpoint Breakpoint Speaker Spotlight: Todd Eaton, The Weather Company Todd Eaton, Head of DevOps at The Weather Company tells us what makes testers valuable, how you can survive a technology transformation, and what 4 hours each week can do to your testing career.
Continuous testing Testing Twitter.com: Achieving reliable test results at scale Instead of doing full restarts for build failures, Twitter devised a simple mechanism to do device-level retries, preserving time, resources, and developers’ faith in automated tests.
Breakpoint Breakpoint Speaker Spotlight: Alexandra Schladebeck, Bredex GmbH Alexandra Schladebeck, CEO and Head of Quality at Bredex GmbH gets candid about switching careers from communications to testing and the importance of maintaining team quality.
Breakpoint Breakpoint Speaker Spotlight: Benjamin Bischoff, trivago Benjamin Bischoff, Test Automation Engineer at trivago tells us about his role in the core QA team, what he's learning as a Java developer and a surprise outcome of hackathons.
Company Announcing Breakpoint, a virtual summit on everything testing We're excited to announce Breakpoint 2020, a 4-day virtual summit on everything testing. Learn how the best dev and QA teams deliver quality at speed.
Open Source Spotlight Open Source Spotlight: Dexie.js with David Fahlander David Fahlander, creator of Dexie.js gets candid about the importance of storing web app data properly, bringing in contributors, and finding sustainable ways to contribute to open source.
Automated testing From Home to Prod: 6 Remote Testing Best Practices from Agile Teams 6 Agile power users reveal how they troubleshoot common QA challenges and deliver great value—without letting WFH break their stride—with automated testing on the cloud.
Product Introducing SpeedLab, a free tool to test website speed across browsers and devices SpeedLab lets you test website speed across multiple browsers and devices so you can identify browser- or device-specific issues instantly.
Webinar Webinar: Speed up your releases with parallelization in Selenium To ship quality releases multiple times a day, you need reliable feedback in minutes. David Burns, core contributor to Selenium explains how to get started with parallelization for test automation.
Open Source Spotlight Open Source Spotlight: Mathjs & JSONEditor with Jos de Jong Jos de Jong, creator of Mathjs and JSONEditor talks about juggling multiple contrasting projects, the importance of feedback, and an ideal problem-solving process.
Product Product Updates: Introducing Simplified Local Testing, App Automate CLI, and New Mobile Devices As the COVID pandemic brought the material world to a halt, we transitioned to WFH and continued to make software testing more effortless for all. Here’s a quick overview of the latest product releases at BrowserStack.
Summer of Learning Summer of Learning Episode 1 - 'The Basics: Getting started with Selenium' Episode 1, 'The Basics: Getting started with Selenium' takes you through setting up test scripts, writing your first test, and picking the right frameworks.
