Question about Cross Browser Testing...

[TrixiBuG]

So I am a QA on a new project at my work and I am a bit stuck, I am hoping someone can help?

My BAU/Day to day work is mainly black box and code fixes so I don't normally concern myself with cross browser integration testing however I have been made the QA on a project for re-building our extranet portal and I am having to QA on multiple browsers, devices and mobiles

According to the visitor numbers to the current version of the extranet, users are mainly using:

• Chrome - versions 35-39
• FireFox - versions 33 + 34
• IE - versions 8-10
• Safari - versions 7 + 8
• Opera - versions 12 + 23-25
• As well as Android 4.0

Having spoken to one of the testers on the Web team here, they currently only test the most up to date versions of these browsers with a combination of automated tests and manual exploratory tests - but as this project is for our providers to use and not the general public, it looks like I am manually testing each one of the above browsers on Desktop and on devices/mobiles by myself

Currently, that last batch of 9 tickets took me 3 days to test and I didn't cover all of the browsers

Does anyone have any thoughts or tips which might be able to help me with this? Are there any programs which I can install and use which might help alleviate the work load?

Thanks!

 

[InvaderGIR]

IETester for IE versions but it can be buggy itself. Latest IE does allow knocking back to at least IE8.

I've played with the trial on http://www.browserstack.com/ too which seemed decent enough.

It's all manual testing though, no automation.

I do the actual dev work though and don't like to concern myself with the testing of visuals or browser issues, I leave that to others and implement fixes if required.

 

[MickeyFinns]

We use spoon.net although you need the paid version to get older versions. Really good though.

 

[Maccy]

I did a load of research into this a few years ago, spoon.net turned out to be one of the best and we use it for clients now.