

Visual Studio Test Professional and BrowserStack compete in the software testing tools category. Visual Studio Test Professional seems to have the upper hand in integration and developer-focused features, while BrowserStack excels in device coverage and cross-browser testing.
Features: Visual Studio Test Professional offers code testing, deep integration with Microsoft tools, and is easy to use for C# and .NET projects with tools like IntelliSense and ReSharper. BrowserStack provides extensive device coverage, essential cross-browser testing, and real-world scenario simulation for web and mobile applications.
Room for Improvement: Visual Studio could enhance its interface, better integrate with databases and web apps, and improve multi-system support. BrowserStack could advance its device connectivity, increase speed, improve integration with testing frameworks, and enhance GPS testing support.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Visual Studio Test Professional is deployed on-premises, offering control over the environment, but users seek more intuitive documentation. BrowserStack, cloud-based, offers easy cross-device access with reliable support, although connectivity issues are reported and integration ease could improve.
Pricing and ROI: Visual Studio Test Professional is considered pricey but offers excellent ROI due to enhanced productivity. The community version helps manage costs. BrowserStack's flexible pricing makes it cost-effective, with ROI depending on project size, offering more gains for larger projects.
Pipeline executions that used to take eight hours have been reduced to one hour, enhancing continuous deployment and providing quicker feedback cycles.
I think its biggest benefit is how it integrates with our CI/CD, not necessarily giving access to developers for test devices.
I have seen a return on investment with BrowserStack, specifically a 50% reduction in human capacity.
BrowserStack customer support is excellent, with knowledgeable staff assisting throughout onboarding, setup, and understanding our needs to provide tailored solutions.
Sometimes, the documentation is not readable, being too long or too detailed and not connected to my problem.
BrowserStack's scalability is enhanced by its auto-scaling capabilities on AWS.
They reproduce the same scenario, and then we create the bug ticket for them to fix.
BrowserStack is quite stable for me because it offers many different devices, is always up to date, and has a nice user interface with good user experience.
Sometimes there is slowness in the network, especially when working with AWS-based hosting.
BrowserStack is very expensive and they keep increasing their cost, which is absolutely ridiculous, especially when someone like LambdaTest is coming through for literal thousands of dollars less, with the same services.
Going forward, one way BrowserStack could improve is by incorporating AI concepts to create tests automatically from provided URLs or user intentions, generating scripts without needing users to write automation scripts.
I think false positives are an area where BrowserStack can improve, as I have often seen things working fine on actual devices, but on BrowserStack devices, issues arise due to network slowness or AWS region connectivity problems that cause lag.
Sometimes, the library version is not compatible with other libraries, causing errors in my application.
The product needs contextual help integrated within its interface.
Additionally, in Visual Studio Code, we have an agent mode for GitHub Copilot, which is very helpful in testing or development phases, while Visual Studio's GitHub Copilot is a bit tricky and sometimes does not provide my desired output.
pricing was that it was a bit on the higher side, around three hundred dollars per user per month.
The price is expensive.
The device farm is one of the positive impacts we have seen from using BrowserStack. We get to run our automation against their full suite of devices, which alleviates the uplift of manual testing.
BrowserStack has positively impacted my organization by helping us reduce the human capacity by 50%, with that reduction mostly being in manual testing efforts.
I use the feature of testing on beta versions in my workflow all the time, checking how the application works on the pre-release build, and our QA people also verify and perform regression testing using the pre-release build on specific devices through BrowserStack.
It supports cross-platform functionality.
Visual Studio Test Professional is highly valuable because it provides extensive extensions and plugins that assist in measuring code quality.
We have a retrospective in our auto projects that we are using frequently to get lessons learned, what went well, and what is going wrong.
| Product | Market Share (%) |
|---|---|
| BrowserStack | 8.8% |
| Visual Studio Test Professional | 1.1% |
| Other | 90.1% |

| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 11 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 8 |
| Large Enterprise | 13 |
| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 15 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 14 |
| Large Enterprise | 24 |
BrowserStack is a cloud-based cross-browser testing tool that enables developers to test their websites across various browserson different operating systems and mobile devices, without requiring users to install virtual machines, devices or emulators.
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