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Test automation for IE browsers

  • 07-05-2014 07:23PM
    #1
    username2013
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 186 ✭✭


    Hi

    I am a software tester for a company. Currently we have in place an automation system which uses rspec and capybara and can be run against multiple browsers . We all have macs which makes testing IE difficult.

    I could spin up some virtual machines but I want to be able to run the automation against multiple versions of IE (8, 9 10, 11) and as far as I know you can only have 1 version installed per machine so this would mean having 4 virtual machines for the different IE versions which is troublesome to maintain.

    Anybody got a suggestion of a strategy I could use to enable me to run our tests against IE? I would like to ditch IE completely but unfortunately some of our customers use it. :mad:


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  • #2
    Raging_Ninja
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,717 ✭✭✭Raging_Ninja


    username2013 wrote: »
    Hi

    I am a software tester for a company. Currently we have in place an automation system which uses rspec and capybara and can be run against multiple browsers . We all have macs which makes testing IE difficult.

    I could spin up some virtual machines but I want to be able to run the automation against multiple versions of IE (8, 9 10, 11) and as far as I know you can only have 1 version installed per machine so this would mean having 4 virtual machines for the different IE versions which is troublesome to maintain.

    Anybody got a suggestion of a strategy I could use to enable me to run our tests against IE? I would like to ditch IE completely but unfortunately some of our customers use it. :mad:

    Its a real pain. Microsoft has multiple VMs with the various IE environments available for free:

    http://www.modern.ie/en-us/virtualization-tools


  • #3
    tricky D
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,698 ✭✭✭tricky D


    Try IETester. I've found it quite good but not quite sure if it's bulletproof.


  • #4
    koti421
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14 ✭koti421


    Try spoon.net/browsers
    You don't need any virtual machine. It has different versions you can test on.


  • #5
    koti421
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14 ✭koti421


    One more site is saucelabs.com to test on different browsers.


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