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"The ability to replay sessions is valuable for tracking down issues.""The support team is top-notch. I have a great relationship with them. They are extremely honest and responsive.""It has increased the speed of our regression testing.""This solution helps lower the overhead cost associated with buying multiple devices.""When I started to work on testing automation, I was very excited about how easy it is to run tests on different browsers. It was just a matter of configuration.""I have found CrossBrowserTesting to be scalable.""Record and Replay is the most used functionality for us, as we can record the test cases and play them on multiple combinations of platforms.""Selenium Grid allows testing multiple platforms to insure functionality for most users."

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"It is a very common and strong product. A lot of support is available for this product.""It is very easy to use. You can handle a lot of things together at once in one package, which is a good point for us.""Visual Studio is an exemplary integrated development environment that stands out due to its exceptional features. It allows for the seamless selection of the appropriate programming language for the specific development tasks at hand. This facilitates a swift and effortless transition between languages, providing a highly efficient development experience.""Visual Studio is highly powerful. It's probably the best software development tool on the market.""The tool is flexible and easy to manage. We use it since it is scalable and easy to use. It integrates with solutions.""The solution is very useful for compiling existing projects and developing new projects.""The initial setup is easy. It's easy to configure.""Its initial setup process is easy."

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"Sometimes, some of their instances fail, particularly in older versions of browsers.""I have experienced some lagging issues, and it does not seem like all of the testing environments are configured the same.""Being able to test on real devices via the virtual connection is wonderful, but it can cause some lag and load time issues while testing.""The speed connection in mobile devices could be improved, because sometimes the load time is uncertain.""The five minute timeouts can cause irritation if you have just popped away to consult some supporting documentation.""A problem that we are facing quite often is related to the network connection. Tests can fail if the remote CrossBrowserTesting's VM has connection problems. This happens mostly with browsers of Internet Explorer family which work on Windows OS.""A wider range of physical devices with more browser versions in the Selenium Grid would be great to insure users with out-of-date devices are able to interact with our sites.""I have had quite a few issues trying to use a virtual machine to test our application on."

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"The database administration could be better; you should be able to choose new tools with the development environment in Visual Studio. It could be easier to use.""It is hard to learn, and you need to invest time to understand it.""There are too many features with the product and I would like there to be less.""Sometimes, the product is too complex to use.""The solution can improve the startup time.""In Visual Studio we still don't have anything which can pinpoint memory leaks on a certain code line.""The tool crashes and has high memory consumption.""The solution's documentation could be improved because it keeps disappearing from the solution."

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  • "The lowest price point is very reasonable. It is also useful if only one person in the company needs to check on the browser display."
  • "A few intermediary pricing options for small QA teams would be nice, e.g., unlimited screenshots, "as you need it" parallel tests, etc."
  • "CrossBrowserTesting offered the best value for its price."
  • "It is worth the pricing as the product is supported on multiple platforms and browsers."
  • "SmartBear offers bundles of products that work together."
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  • "For the cloud services option, you buy a subscription per account or per user. This costs around $52 a month per person."
  • "I think that the pricing is quite good."
  • "The pricing is expensive."
  • "We pay for the solution annually and the price could be reduced."
  • "There is a paid version of the solution as well as a community version that is free."
  • "Visual Studio Test Professional is a very expensive solution."
  • "The tool is expensive in my region."
  • "We pay a yearly licensing fee for Visual Studio Test Professional, which is expensive."
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    Overview

    CrossBrowserTesting is a cloud testing platform that gives instant access to 1500+ different real desktop and mobile browsers for testers, developers, and designers.

    • Native debugging tools make manual testing easy to inspect and correct HTML, CSS, and JavaScript errors on any browser.
    • Take automated screenshots across multiple browsers at once, then compare side-by-side against historical test runs.
    Visual Studio Professional Edition provides an IDE for all supported development languages. As of Visual Studio 2010, the Standard edition was dropped. MSDN support is available as MSDN Essentials or the full MSDN library depending on licensing. It supports XML and XSLT editing, and can create deployment packages that only use ClickOnce and MSI. It includes tools like Server Explorer and integration with Microsoft SQL Server also. Windows Mobile development support was included in Visual Studio 2005 Standard, however, with Visual Studio 2008, it is only available in Professional and higher editions. Windows Phone 7 development support was added to all editions in Visual Studio 2010. Development for Windows Mobile is no longer supported in Visual Studio 2010; it is superseded by Windows Phone 7.
    Sample Customers
    St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Accenture, Sony, Los Angeles Times, ADP, Verizon, T-Mobile, Wistia
    Transport for Greater Manchester, Ordina, Bluegarden A/S, CLEAResult, Jet.com, OSIsoft, Australian Taxation Office, BookedOut, Tracasa
    Top Industries
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    Financial Services Firm21%
    Healthcare Company14%
    Computer Software Company14%
    University7%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company18%
    Financial Services Firm14%
    Government10%
    Healthcare Company7%
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    Computer Software Company35%
    Financial Services Firm10%
    Healthcare Company6%
    Manufacturing Company6%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company17%
    Financial Services Firm16%
    Manufacturing Company7%
    Insurance Company7%
    Company Size
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    Small Business35%
    Midsize Enterprise22%
    Large Enterprise43%
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    Small Business23%
    Midsize Enterprise16%
    Large Enterprise61%
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    Small Business23%
    Midsize Enterprise27%
    Large Enterprise50%
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    Small Business18%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise67%
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    CrossBrowserTesting is ranked 27th in Functional Testing Tools while Visual Studio Test Professional is ranked 7th in Functional Testing Tools with 46 reviews. CrossBrowserTesting is rated 9.0, while Visual Studio Test Professional is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of CrossBrowserTesting writes "Static screenshots are the feature most often used, because they are a simple method of detecting problems". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Visual Studio Test Professional writes "Customization is a key feature as is the ability to integrate with third-party services ". CrossBrowserTesting is most compared with BrowserStack, Bitbar, Tricentis Tosca, LambdaTest and Sauce Labs, whereas Visual Studio Test Professional is most compared with TFS, Apache JMeter, Tricentis NeoLoad, SmartBear TestComplete and OpenText UFT One.

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