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| Company type | Enterprise software, web development |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2011 |
| Founder | Ritesh Arora, Nakul Aggarwal |
| Headquarters | , |
Number of employees | 900 |
| Website | browserstack |
BrowserStack is a cloud web and mobile testing platform that provides developers with the ability to test their websites and mobile applications across on-demand browsers, operating systems and real mobile devices. The company is based in India. [1]
The subscription-based service was founded by Ritesh Arora and Nakul Aggarwal in 2011 [2] in Mumbai, India, and was originally started as a service to let developers test their websites on Internet Explorer. BrowserStack has over 25,000 paid customers and 2 million registered developers in more than 135 countries. [3] In October 2015, BrowserStack was recognised as a Bootstrap Champ in The Economic Times Startup Awards. [4]
BrowserStack have five primary products: Live, App Live, [5] Automate, App Automate and Percy.
Browserstack integrates [6] with other software testing products such as Selenium IDE, Testim, Katalon, Testsigma
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