Ankit

• Week 3 - 7 October

Cross-browser Web testing tools

At this thime, there is a huge collection of competing browsers. In this situation, there are no common standards for displaying sites: each one of them may display a site in its own way, for example, by distorting the page content. Due to this fact, the “cross-browser” term emerged, that is the feature of a site to be displayed identically in all browsers.Although the cross-browser issue emerged rather recently, there already exist a great number of tools for testing it.All cross-browser testing tools are different  in the number of supported browsers, ease to use, price, and also testing speed. These factors greatly complicate the choice of the suitable tool.This article is devoted to the problem of choosing the right cross-browser testing tool. It lists the popular tools, their advantages and disadvantages.This article would be useful for testers, who haven’t performed this kind of testing yet, or for people, who face the problem of choosing the suitable tool.BrowserShots gives the possibility to test a site not only in five most popular browsers, but also in less known browsers, such as Netscape, Avant, SeaMonkey.