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Azure DevOps vs BrowserStack: What are the differences?
What is Azure DevOps? Services for teams to share code, track work, and ship software. Azure DevOps provides unlimited private Git hosting, cloud build for continuous integration, agile planning, and release management for continuous delivery to the cloud and on-premises. Includes broad IDE support.
What is 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 DevOps and BrowserStack are primarily classified as "Project Management" and "Browser Testing" tools respectively.
Some of the features offered by Azure DevOps are:
- Agile Tools: kanban boards, backlogs, scrum boards
- Reporting: dashboards, widgets, Power BI
- Git: free private repositories, pull requests
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
"Complete and powerful" is the top reason why over 11 developers like Azure DevOps, while over 121 developers mention "Multiple browsers" as the leading cause for choosing BrowserStack.
ebay, Typeform, and Wikipedia are some of the popular companies that use BrowserStack, whereas Azure DevOps is used by Schlumberger, Poq, and simplement-e. BrowserStack has a broader approval, being mentioned in 579 company stacks & 239 developers stacks; compared to Azure DevOps, which is listed in 79 company stacks and 68 developer stacks.
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
BrowserStackStability - Just works. Availability - More than 15 datacenters. Enterprise features like SSO, local testing and SOC2/GDPR compliant.
BitBarBitBar's Dedicated Devices would be a great option for you. It allows you to dedicate (reserve) devices for your use only which also having access to all of the devices in the shared cloud. BitBar has the features and integrations that you are looking for as well.
Pros of Azure DevOps
- Complete and powerful51
- Huge extension ecosystem30
- Azure integration26
- One Stop Shop For Build server, Project Mgt, CDCI26
- Flexible and powerful25
- Everything I need. Simple and intuitive UI15
- Support Open Source13
- Integrations8
- GitHub Integration7
- Project Mgmt Features6
- Cost free for Stakeholders6
- One 4 all6
- Runs in the cloud5
- Crap5
- Agent On-Premise(Linux - Windows)3
- Aws integration2
- Link Test Cases to Stories2
- Jenkins Integration2
- GCP Integration1
Pros of BrowserStack
- Multiple browsers130
- Ease of use71
- Real browsers59
- Ability to use it locally40
- Good price23
- Great web interface17
- IE support15
- Official mobile emulators13
- Cloud-based access12
- Instant access11
- Real mobile devices7
- Multiple Desktop OS5
- Screenshots4
- Can be used for Testing and E2E4
- Selenium compatible4
- Pre-installed developer tools3
- Video of test runs3
- Favourites2
- Webdriver compatible2
- Supports Manual, Functional and Visual Diff Testing2
- Many browsers2
- Free for Open Source1
- Cypress Compatible1
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Cons of Azure DevOps
- Still dependant on C# for agents7
- Half Baked4
- Not a requirements management tool4
- Capacity across cross functional teams not visibile4
- Jack of all trades, master of none3
- Poor Jenkins integration3
- Many in devops disregard MS altogether3
- Tedious for test plan/case creation2
Cons of BrowserStack
- Very limited choice of minor versions1
