March 2018 Summaries

BrowserStack, a web and mobile browser testing platform founded in 2011, has recently secured $50 million in Series A funding from Accel. The company, which has been profitable since its founding, aims to make developers' lives easier by eliminating the pain points of manual and automated browser testing. BrowserStack boasts over 25,000 unique paying global customers, including major companies like Microsoft, Amazon, Twitter, AIG, Lowe's, CVS, and Gap. The platform has more than 2 million users across 135 countries. With the new funding, BrowserStack plans to continue expanding its services as a reliable testing infrastructure for developers worldwide.

BrowserStack has introduced App Automate, a platform enabling automated tests for mobile applications on its Real Device Cloud. The service allows concurrent testing of native and hybrid apps across thousands of iOS and Android devices. Automated testing is crucial for scaling mobile apps quickly as consumers use an increasing number of device types. App Automate offers features such as access to over 1,000 devices, speeding up test runs, effortless integration with popular app automation frameworks, real-time debugging, and uncompromising security. BrowserStack aims to be the most reliable testing infrastructure for developers worldwide.