Azure Container Service vs BrowserStack

Overview

BrowserStack

Stacks2.7K

Followers2.0K

Votes533

Azure Container Service

Stacks97

Followers214

Votes11

Azure Container Service vs BrowserStack: What are the differences?

Azure Container Service: Deploy and manage containers using the tools you choose. Azure Container Service optimizes the configuration of popular open source tools and technologies specifically for Azure. You get an open solution that offers portability for both your containers and your application configuration. You select the size, the number of hosts, and choice of orchestrator tools, and Container Service handles everything else; BrowserStack: Instant access to a lab of 1000+ real mobile and desktop browsers for testing. Live, Web-Based Browser Testing Instant access to all real mobile and desktop browsers. Say goodbye to your lab of devices and virtual machines.

Azure Container Service and BrowserStack are primarily classified as "Containers as a Service" and "Browser Testing" tools respectively.

Some of the features offered by Azure Container Service are:

Create a container hosting solution optimized for Azure
Scale and orchestrate applications using Apache Mesos or Docker Swarm
Use popular open source, client-side tooling

On the other hand, BrowserStack provides the following key features:

Real Device Cloud. Test on a range of physical Android and iOS mobile devices and tablets for the most accurate results
1100+ desktop browsers. Latest versions of IE, Edge, Safari, Chrome, Firefox and more on a range of Windows and OS X platforms on a robust cloud infrastructure
Test dev environments. Our Local Testing feature allows you to test development and internal websites seamlessly, without setup or configuration

"Easy to setup, very agnostic" is the top reason why over 3 developers like Azure Container Service, while over 121 developers mention "Multiple browsers" as the leading cause for choosing BrowserStack.

According to the StackShare community, BrowserStack has a broader approval, being mentioned in 572 company stacks & 230 developers stacks; compared to Azure Container Service, which is listed in 8 company stacks and 7 developer stacks.

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Advice on BrowserStack, Azure Container Service

Rinchin

Jul 20, 2020

Needs adviceon

Selenium

Sauce Labs

I am looking to purchase one of these tools for Mobile testing for my team. It should support Native, hybrid, and responsive app testing. It should also feature debugging, parallel execution, automation testing/easy integration with automation testing tools like Selenium, and the capability to provide availability of devices specifically for us to use at any time with good speed of performing all these activities.

I have already used Perfecto mobile, and Sauce Labs in my other projects before. I want to know how different or better is AWS Device farm in usage and how advantageous it would be for us to use it over other mentioned tools

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Detailed Comparison

BrowserStack	Azure Container Service
BrowserStack is the leading test platform built for developers & QAs to expand test coverage, scale & optimize testing with cross-browser, real device cloud, accessibility, visual testing, test management, and test observability.	Azure Container Service optimizes the configuration of popular open source tools and technologies specifically for Azure. You get an open solution that offers portability for both your containers and your application configuration. You select the size, the number of hosts, and choice of orchestrator tools, and Container Service handles everything else.
Get instant access to 20,000+ real mobile devices and browsers, which include real iOS and Android devices, Chrome, IE, Firefox, Safari; Test websites hosted on internal dev and staging environments with zero setup or configuration; Run hundreds of tests concurrently to speed up the execution time of your test suite by more than 10x	Create a container hosting solution optimized for Azure;Scale and orchestrate applications using Apache Mesos or Docker Swarm;Use popular open source, client-side tooling;Migrate container workloads to and from Azure without code changes
Statistics
Stacks 2.7K	Stacks 97
Followers 2.0K	Followers 214
Votes 533	Votes 11
Pros & Cons
Pros 135 Multiple browsers 76 Ease of use 65 Real browsers 44 Ability to use it locally 27 Good price Cons 2 Very limited choice of minor versions	Pros 6 Easy to setup, very agnostic 3 It supports Kubernetes, Mesos DC/OS and Docker Swarm 2 It has a nice command line interface (CLI) tool
Integrations
Cypress QMetry Jira WordPress Shopify Zapier Drone.io Jenkins Slack GitLab	Docker Swarm Docker Apache Mesos

What are some alternatives to BrowserStack, Azure Container Service?

Selenium

Selenium automates browsers. That's it! What you do with that power is entirely up to you. Primarily, it is for automating web applications for testing purposes, but is certainly not limited to just that. Boring web-based administration tasks can (and should!) also be automated as well.

Sauce Labs

Cloud-based automated testing platform enables developers and QEs to perform functional, JavaScript unit, and manual tests with Selenium or Appium on web and mobile apps. Videos and screenshots for easy debugging. Secure and CI-ready.

Amazon EC2 Container Service

Amazon EC2 Container Service lets you launch and stop container-enabled applications with simple API calls, allows you to query the state of your cluster from a centralized service, and gives you access to many familiar Amazon EC2 features like security groups, EBS volumes and IAM roles.

LambdaTest

LambdaTest platform provides secure, scalable and insightful test orchestration for website, and mobile app testing. Customers at different points in their DevOps lifecycle can leverage Automation and/or Manual testing on LambdaTest.

Karma

Karma is not a testing framework, nor an assertion library. Karma just launches a HTTP server, and generates the test runner HTML file you probably already know from your favourite testing framework. So for testing purposes you can use pretty much anything you like.

Playwright

It is a Node library to automate the Chromium, WebKit and Firefox browsers with a single API. It enables cross-browser web automation that is ever-green, capable, reliable and fast.

Google Kubernetes Engine

Container Engine takes care of provisioning and maintaining the underlying virtual machine cluster, scaling your application, and operational logistics like logging, monitoring, and health management.

Rainforest QA

Rainforest gives you the reliability of a QA team and the speed of automation, without the hassle of managing a team or the pain of writing automated tests.

WebdriverIO

WebdriverIO lets you control a browser or a mobile application with just a few lines of code. Your test code will look simple, concise and easy to read.

Containerum

Containerum is built to aid cluster management, teamwork and resource allocation. Containerum runs on top of any Kubernetes cluster and provides a friendly Web UI for cluster management.

Related Comparisons

Some of the features offered by Azure Container Service are:

Create a container hosting solution optimized for Azure
Scale and orchestrate applications using Apache Mesos or Docker Swarm
Use popular open source, client-side tooling

On the other hand, BrowserStack provides the following key features:

Real Device Cloud. Test on a range of physical Android and iOS mobile devices and tablets for the most accurate results
1100+ desktop browsers. Latest versions of IE, Edge, Safari, Chrome, Firefox and more on a range of Windows and OS X platforms on a robust cloud infrastructure
Test dev environments. Our Local Testing feature allows you to test development and internal websites seamlessly, without setup or configuration

Azure Container Service vs BrowserStack