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Get a full browser and emulate user actions.

Pros: Accurate, mature

Cons: Slow, can't run on your computer,

Pros: Easy to use, can run on your computer, getting more traction

Cons: Not a real browser, harder to debug

Libraries wrapping selenium

Node.js based with jQuery style syntax.

Enables test automation in JAVA

Test automation for native and hybrid mobile apps (is used also by Sauce Labs). This is open source automation framework. Code can be reused between iOS and Android testsuites.

###Synthetics

Powered by NewRelic. Actually this is Selenium-driven platform. Mostly to performance monitoring (load time, load size etc.). Cool: they can run your tests how often you would like (>= 1 min) and from any location (North America, Europe). API testing. 4 people are working on this product. Costs: NewRelic costs: 149$ / month / host (while billed yearly).

Libraries wrapping phantom.js

Similar to Nightwatch.js, also support plugins.

Related companies

Major players

Size: 70+, mature, 21 mln $ raised in 4 rounds (last in Feb 2014 - 5 mln $)

Location: San Francisco, funder: Jason Huggins (Selenium cretor)

Use any browser, run any Selenium, JS or Appium test on their clusters. Continuous integration. Use secure tunneling technology. GOOD FOR: cross-browser / cross-platform testing SUCKS? Expensive, you have to write tests anyway, possibly slow, gets CSRF errors..

Similar to Sauce Labs. Testing on everything:) (also on your local machine). Reasonable prices: starting with 39$ / month.

Size: 49, mature

Location: Mombai

Size: ~40-50

The largest mobile development infrastructure for developers to dev, test and debug. Target: enterprise segment. Prices: >= 499$

A lot of testing tools. eggPlant does Sikuli style tests.

Size: 63

Location: London, UK

Startup, contenders, niche players

Size: 1, niche player

Test consistency across the browsers.

Remote access to android/feature phones. Mostly for manual tests.

Size: Division of Japan megacorp (NTT Resonant)

Location: San Francisco, Japan

SDK for to do visual tests automatically: https://applitools.com/

Size: 8, startup

Location: Israel

Tracking for testers

SaaS to track test scenarios and manual results of executing them.

Size: 1 ???

Location: Berlin, Germany

Crowdsource manual testers

Startup which lets you to write tests in English that will get (fully) manually executed. YCombinator. Tests only on major browsers (Chrome, Firefox, IE8-11). Standard setup-> browser within the browser. You can easily schedule tests to run every certain time (designed for frequent testing). Test run time: >= 15 minutes (each test is run by >1 tester). Offer free pairing test session with Customer Support of theirs:) Integrated with: Hipchat, Slack, Pivotal Tracker. API is available. GOOD: painless, good for "non-techies" (Product Managers etc). SUCKS? Writing in plain English is painful. Very expensive (>= 500$ / month). If you make big changes n your website it is painful to modify the tests.

Size: 9

Location: San Francisco, CA

Also owns Applause

Marketplace, network of testers plus some SDK to make that easier.

Size: 243

Location: San Francisco and many remote in USA

Network of testers. Outsourced/crowdsourced QA.

Size: 82

Location: Gloucester, United Kingdom

Chrome plugin which lets you record and later run your tests (automatically or manually). Similar to what we are thinking about but: no option of running on localhost. API testing: only with higher plans (>=99$ / month). Allows exporting tests and run on Selenium. Size: 1 (no sales people:)) Price: starts with 49$ / month