BrowserStack Blog

2020: Year in review

As 2020 draws to an end, we reflect on all the major achievements—product launches, updates, summits, and more, that made 2020 remarkable for us.

Product

Introducing Visual Reviews 2.0

Introducing a ground-up redesign of Percy’s visual review experience! It is designed to support testing on more browsers so you can perform faster, more efficient visual reviews across tens of thousands of screenshots.

Manual testing

Webinar: Manual Testing – Fill the gaps in your QA strategy

David Burns, core contributor to Selenium and co-editor of the W3C WebDriver, talks about creating a holistic QA strategy to establish a fine balance between manual and automation testing. He also shares the best practices for remote testing teams working cross-functionally.

Webinar

Webinar: Finding the balance – Trivago’s End-to-End test strategy

Watch Benjamin Bischoff, Test Automation Engineer at Trivago, talk about how Trivago created and implemented an End-to-End test strategy for their main web application, how it has evolved ever since, and how it helped them speed up their build and feedback times.

Product

Cross browser testing for every team

Bring your entire team on board with Live for Teams. Test every feature across 2,000+ browsers and real devices and deliver quality customer experiences.

Webinar

Webinar: Automating visual testing with Percy

If you are curious about what visual testing is, or you’ve heard of it but aren’t sure how it’s different from your existing tests, this webinar is for you.

Case study

fullPage.js makes every user happy by testing across browsers and devices

Alvaro Trigo, the creator of fullPage.js recalls how difficult it was to reproduce and test issues across browsers and operating systems—and how BrowserStack solved this pain point to help him deliver happy customer experiences.

Automate

Cypress cross browser testing on the cloud

Cross-browser Cypress tests are easier to run at scale on a cloud testing platform like BrowserStack. Here's how you can get started.

Product

Software testing in the age of remote work

It’s difficult to access on-premise device labs during a global pandemic with remote work in place. How do you stay efficient & meet quality expectations?

App Automate

Carousell: WFH Success with BrowserStack

These are the practices and tools that allowed Asia's largest consumer marketplace to deliver quality software at speed in the era of remote work.

Engineering

From Developer to Manager: Dhimil's Journey at BrowserStack

A conversation with Dhimil Gosalia, Director of Engineering at BrowserStack, about his journey from development to engineering management and beyond.

Automated testing

13 Ways to Optimize Your Test Automation from Home

For product teams working from home, functional testing on the cloud saves the day (and the QA). Here are 13 simple ways to optimize your testing practices so you make the most out of the cloud.

Breakpoint

Breakpoint Highlights: Testing at scale

Breakpoint 2020 brought speakers from Twitter, Trivago, Selenium, Mozilla, Robot Framework, and more to talk about agile testing, quality at speed, decentralized testing, release reconstruction, and more. Here are some highlights on testing at scale.

Breakpoint

Breakpoint Highlights: Frameworks

Breakpoint 2020 brought speakers from Twitter, Trivago, Selenium, Mozilla, Robot Framework, and more to talk about agile testing, quality at speed, decentralized testing, release reconstruction, and more. Here are some highlights from talks on frameworks.

Breakpoint

Breakpoint Highlights: Test Automation

Breakpoint 2020 brought speakers from Twitter, Trivago, Selenium, Mozilla, Robot Framework, and more to talk about agile testing, quality at speed, decentralized testing, release reconstruction, and more. Here are some highlights on test automation.

Engineering

Diving into the World of APIs

A bird's eye view of the API landscape, and a deep dive into the design considerations and quality assessment requirements for building and testing great APIs.

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.

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