LambdaTest

My company was utilizing LambdaTest platform to perform manual web UI testing of their website. The process was smooth as they offered 2000+ browsers & OS combinations to test on. The only problem was that all this process was manual and required me to personally allocate time for testing every time a new website update was made live.

Having basic knowledge of selenium I was always interested in exploring their automated version as well. After a brief discussion with my CTO we decided to explore the feature.

I was amazed by the fact that LambdaTest has provided a very detailed documentation on each and every selenium framework to begin with.

Being a JAVA user, I spent a couple of days in understanding the process. When I was ready I asked LambdaTest team to open an access for me to test their automation feature.

After a couple of days I gained the required confidence and gave a green chit to move on LambdaTest Automation plan.

We have now integrated our test with Circle CI as well that allows us continues testing without putting much efforts.

Cons

Some of the cons that I can point out will be no proper demo video to understand the features, only written documents are available.

While subscribing LambdaTest we had to make sure that we can run our Appium scrips on Lambda platform. At that time this particular feature was not available but we were assured by their team that this will come in a couple of months.

This particular feature was not a deal breaker for us hence we moved ahead. After some days one of their sales executive gave us a call to apprise they have launched mobile web automation as well.

The best part was not that they launched mobile automation, but the best part was that they remember to inform us personally that they have launched the feature.

After about 4 months of using the product, we are content with their platform and intent to use it as long as we have a requirement for such tool.

Pros:

1.       Very good customer support system

2.       Stable and continuously improving platform

3.       Cheaper when compared to other alternatives

Cons:

1.       Testing can be slow sometimes

2.       Only 100 minutes of free testing to try the platform

Being a functional tester my job revolves around taking few hundred screenshots of our website whenever a new update has gone. This particular task was taking majority of my days’ time.

After a quick discussion with my manager we decided to look for tools that could automate this particular task and can even integrate with our CI/CD pipeline.

One of our colleague suggested us to take a look at LambdaTest platform and I must say it was a great piece of advice.

They offer a feature called ‘Visual UI Testing’ in which users can schedule their screenshot testing on any day of the week at any specific time of your choice.

The same feature is also available in their automation testing feature as well through which they schedule screenshot testing of our website on any browser & OS of their choice at any time of our choice.

We wanted to make sure that our website is giving a seamless experience to all users no matter which device, browser or OS our user access it on.

This need made us head to google and type our query, we were amazed to see a number of tools that were catering this specific need. After visiting a few websites we landed on LambdaTest.

Interestingly they were offering a free plan to test their services and then choose to go ahead or not.

We were able to test our website on 20+ combinations from their free plan which actually was enough for us however, we decided to expand the test coverage by buying their paid plan.

It took us couple of hours to make sure that our website was running smoothly, this whole experience gave us a sense of confidence that we will not lose any customer because of bad UX.

Graphic User Interface of our web application software is something we really really take good care of as this is the most liked feature of our product.

Being a tester, I have to ensure that users using different mobile phones, desktops, laptops and even tablets. Maintaining a farm of such huge devices, keeping them running, ensuring their regular update is a next to impossible task.

To help us tackle the above problem we thought to try out LambdaTest after a suggestion from fellow colleague. To our surprise, LambdaTest has 2000+ combination of real browsers & OS running on real desktop machines and mobile simulators on the cloud.

That was the best thing that we could have thought of, it took me roughly two days to test on all in demand combinations to ensure the web applications looks pixel perfect.

At $19 a month, this is one investment we really have high regard for.

We are using LambdaTest for more than one year now and there is certainly one thing that really impressed us during our run and that is their fast speed in bringing latest updates on their platform.

Be it the latest Selenium 4 (Beta or new browsers, OS and even new mobile simulators and emulators. They tend to act very fast and bring the on cloud for users to test so that the lives of web testers like us is easy.

Every person wants to make sure their website or web-app is compatible on latest developments and LambdaTest is helping us to make sure we are ready for the future.

We are now using Selenium 4 scripts and are performing testing on LambdaTest in a hassle free manner.

Cons

We are really hoping they bring the native app testing as well on their platform and then we would not be required to keep subscription of multiple tools.

We were in a process of preparing a website of which the code was ready, but before finally making the website live we wanted to make sure it looks perfect on all browsers & OS.

We searched for various tools that could helped us with this specific requirement, after a detailed read and basic use we shortlisted LambdaTest.

The reason for choosing LambdaTest was that it had a one-time process for connecting local computer with their servers after which even a novice can perform cross browser testing with ease.

They also answered all the possible queries that we had via their chat support. Cherry on the cake is the pricing, we bought a yearly subscription of LambdaTest in $180 which is pretty less when compared with other tools with similar functionalities.

We have just started using LambdaTest for our functional testing, earlier we were on Sauce Labs. As our contract was about to expire we thought to look for an alternative for two main reasons. First, there was no instant support, second, we wanted a tool that costed us less.

After weeks of research and POC we finally decided to go ahead with LambdaTest as it answered the two main concerns that we basically had with Sauce.

LambdaTest has dedicated 24/7 technical support and are able to answer any query that we had and the second and the best part was that they were a lot cheaper than Sauce, mainly because they don’t offer real mobile devices but that was not a deal breaker for us.

We went ahead with their web+mobile automation plan and we are pretty happy with them in a brief one month of time.

I things remain same then we will be happy to become their permanent customer.

Cons

LambdaTest currently does not have native app testing feature however we were told that it will be made available soon.

We have been using LambdaTest for almost a year now and we have come to the below conclusion.

The product has improved a lot overtime, the speed and performance has increased, number of integrations has also gone up and their support has become better.

We initially purchased their manual testing plan but later moved on to their automation plan as that was the one we were looking for from the start.

LambdaTest has offered a selenium based grid which has really helped us in performing automation testing and has fast forwarded our test execution time.

LambdaTest is the tool that we use for performing cross browser testing of our website. The UI is simple yet advanced to handle various multiple tests at the same time.

We use the services of LambdaTest whenever we are updating our website with a new feature. This really helps us in saving time taken to manually perform all these tests.

The best part about LambdaTest is they offer integration with almost all leading project management & CI tools which really makes our job easy.

We are using Circle CI for our continuous testing and development and were thrilled to find the integration there which we think is pretty amazing.

Not only Circle CI you can integrate with Jenkins, Bamboo, TeamCity and many many more tools.

This sort of extensive integration and CI/CD options really makes LambdaTest stand out when compared with other tools like Sauce Labs & BS.