BrowserStack

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BrowserStack
Company type Enterprise software, web development
Founded2011
FounderRitesh Arora, Nakul Aggarwal
Headquarters,
Number of employees
900
Website browserstack.com

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]

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History

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]

Components

BrowserStack have five primary products: Live, App Live, [5] Automate, App Automate and Percy.

Integrations

Browserstack integrates [6] with other software testing products such as Selenium IDE, Testim, Katalon, Testsigma

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