There is an offline software to test a website in different browsers?

Question

I'm looking for an offline software that can speed up the testing of a website in different browsers.

Yes, I can install Opera, Firefox, Chrome, IE and Safari and test in each one, but this slow down the process because there are a lot of changes to be done in the website I am working and each change must be tested in all browsers.

More specifically, I am looking for something similar to IETester, but for different browsers. I'm not interested in online services (there are a lot), but offline.

So, someone knows something like this?

Answer 1

I find the Selenium tool [ http://seleniumhq.org/ ] very useful for such needs:

• there are drivers for almost all modern and not-so-modern browsers: firefox, IE, Opera, Chrome, Safari..
• scales quite well through the webdriver thing (remote control execution of tests on many different hosts), and
• is well established: there are many resources available around to develop and deploy it.

Main drawback, as for my own experience: the learning curve is somewhat tough.

There is also a nice test management tool especially targeted at Selenium: Bromine (disclaimer: I did not yet use Bromine, but saw great comments on it).

Regards,

-- boris