Test automation for IE browsers

username2013

Hi

I am a software tester for a company. Currently we have in place an automation system which uses rspec and capybara and can be run against multiple browsers . We all have macs which makes testing IE difficult.

I could spin up some virtual machines but I want to be able to run the automation against multiple versions of IE (8, 9 10, 11) and as far as I know you can only have 1 version installed per machine so this would mean having 4 virtual machines for the different IE versions which is troublesome to maintain.

Anybody got a suggestion of a strategy I could use to enable me to run our tests against IE? I would like to ditch IE completely but unfortunately some of our customers use it. :mad:

Raging_Ninja

username2013 wrote: »

Hi

I am a software tester for a company. Currently we have in place an automation system which uses rspec and capybara and can be run against multiple browsers . We all have macs which makes testing IE difficult.

I could spin up some virtual machines but I want to be able to run the automation against multiple versions of IE (8, 9 10, 11) and as far as I know you can only have 1 version installed per machine so this would mean having 4 virtual machines for the different IE versions which is troublesome to maintain.

Anybody got a suggestion of a strategy I could use to enable me to run our tests against IE? I would like to ditch IE completely but unfortunately some of our customers use it. :mad:

Its a real pain. Microsoft has multiple VMs with the various IE environments available for free:

http://www.modern.ie/en-us/virtualization-tools

tricky D

Try IETester. I've found it quite good but not quite sure if it's bulletproof.

koti421

Try spoon.net/browsers
You don't need any virtual machine. It has different versions you can test on.

koti421

One more site is saucelabs.com to test on different browsers.