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Why choose HeadSpin over BrowserStack?
Addressing user experience issues is a vital aspect of testing. Through AI-powered data insights, HeadSpin offers a plethora of solutions to rest user experience issues compared to BrowserStack, like insights into poor video quality, low frame rate, and audio volume issues. Here's a comparison of BrowserStack testing solutions and HeadSpin.
Testing & DevOps Workflow
Device Infrastructure
AI Powered Data Insights
Regression Analytics & dashboarding
Audio
Video
Use Cases
Testing
Post-release Testing
Yes
Performance Analysis
Yes
Audio Testing
Yes
Video testing
Yes
Competitor Benchmarking
Yes
Manual Testing
Yes
Yes
Automated Testing
Yes
Yes
Pre-release Testing
Yes
Yes
Functional Testing
Yes
Yes
Root Cause Analysis
Yes
Yes
Regression testing and analysis
Yes
Yes
Firestick
Yes
Yes
Integrations
HeadSpin's integrations enable you to test and ship faster in the most hassle-free manner.
Appium
Yes
Yes
Selenium
Yes
Yes
Appium Inspector
Yes
Yes
Compatible technologies with HeadSpin
Charles Proxy
Yes
Experitest
Yes
WebPage Test
Yes
FitNesse
Yes
KIF
Yes
Xcode
Yes
Yes
Android Studio
Yes
Yes
Flutter
Yes
Yes
Cucumber
Yes
Yes
UI Automator
Yes
Yes
Junit
Yes
Yes
XCTest
Yes
Yes
Calabash
Yes
Yes
Unified Functional Testing
Yes
Yes
TestNG
Yes
Yes
Earlgrey
Yes
Yes
Puppeteer
Yes
Yes
Playwright
Yes
Yes
Jira
Yes
Yes
Slack
Yes
Yes
Jenkins
Yes
Yes
Use Cases
Device Options
Voice Assistants: Cortana, Google Assistant
Yes
Zebra devices
Yes
Chromecast
Yes
AirTV
Yes
Apple TV
Yes
Coming soon
Android TV
Yes
Coming soon
Android phones
Yes
Yes
iPhones
Yes
Yes
Browser testing on laptops
Browsers supported: Chrome , Firefox, Edge, Safari, Opera.
Yes
Yes
Firestick
Yes
Yes
Wearables (Android based devices)
Yes
Yes
Deployment Options
Devices are SIM and/or WiFi enabled.
On-prem (customer premise)
Yes
Dedicated/Single Tenant (cloud hosted)
Yes
Shared/Multi-tenant (cloud hosted)
Yes
HeadSpin Create Your Own Lab
CYOL enables companies to use individual devices to be on-boarded on the HeadSpin Platform and run automated testing. It also empowers businesses to run edge testing where the business is at a particular location and want to test their apps in that location.
Yes
On-the-go
Yes
Hybrid (One or all of the above)
Yes
Locations
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Run thousands of tests parallelly at scale without worrying about device availability with our reliable global device infrastructure.
Use Cases
User Experience Issues
Loading Animation
Yes
Poor Video Quality
Yes
Slow App Launch
Yes
Slow Webpage Load
Yes
Low Frame Rate
Yes
Audio Too Loud
Based on ITU standard LUFS metric.
Yes
Audio Too Quiet
Based on ITU standard LUFS metric.
Yes
Root Cause Issues: Network optimisation issues
Connection Reuse: Externally Powered Device
Yes
Connection Reuse: Battery Powered Device
Yes
Domain Sharding
Yes
Duplicate Messages
Yes
Unoptimized Resource: image/png
Yes
Unoptimized Resource: image/gif
Yes
Unoptimized Resource: text
Yes
Unoptimized DNS: Poor Host Priortization
Yes
Unoptimized DNS: High Latency Host
Yes
Duplicate DNS Query
Yes
Slow DNS Query
Yes
Root Cause Issues: Network Performance Issues
Slow Downloads
Yes
Slow Hosts
Yes
Slow TLS
Yes
Root Cause Issues: Network Errors
HTTP Errors
Yes
DNS Error: Format Error
Yes
DNS Error: Server Failure
Yes
DNS Error: Non-Existent Domain
Yes
DNS Error: Not Implemented
Yes
DNS Error: Query Refused
Yes
Root Cause Issues: Performance Optimization
HTTP Redirects
Yes
Root Cause Issues: Client Side Metrics Evaluation
Hung CPU Method
Yes
Hung Real Method
Yes
Root Cause Issues: Video
Page Content
Yes
Blurriness
Yes
Blockiness
Yes
Downsampling Index
Yes
Colorfulness
Yes
HeadSpin Subjective Video Quality
MOS - Mean Opinion Score.
Yes
Root Cause Issues: Data Analysis
OCR Request & Result
Yes
Image Match Label Copy
Yes
Audio Match Request & Result
Yes
Audio Activity Request & Result
Yes
Loading Animation Request
Yes
Video Content
Yes
Root Cause Issues: Warnings
Unencrypted Traffic
Yes
High Battery Drain
Yes
Java Reflection
Android call stack profiling.
Yes
Audio Not Detected
Yes
Use Cases
Compare KPIs & get AI-powered insights for addressing functional or performance degradation
Yes
Build a rich ontology with custom session tags for fine-grained cohort analysis
Yes
Automate build-over-build comparisons to check regression results
Yes
Create custom alerts based on criteria
Geo-location or device SKU for alerts when regressions are observed in different markets/devices.
Yes
Set up a proactive regression Alert Watcher
Yes
Business intelligence database
This enables the dashboard, arbitrary queries and pulls that data to external databases. It provides custom views of data, monitoring those dashboards and mapping those trends.
Yes
Use Cases
Reference free quality evaluation of audio content
Yes
No
Audio Match Analysis
Yes
No
Support for multiple audio device configurations
Google Assistant, Amazon Alexa, Chromecast.
Yes
No
Real-time audio playback and microphone quality testing
Yes
No
Drive tests to understand audio quality on the move
Yes
No
Use Cases
Live streaming Quality analysis
Yes
Video Conferencing & Video Calling evaluation
Yes
Support for multiple video device configurations
TV, OTT devices like Roku, Amazon fire stick etc.
Yes
Reference free video quality evaluation
Yes
Full reference video quality evaluation (VMAF)
Yes
We are present in the following locations
Test and monitor websites & apps with our vast and real local devices around the world.
Australia
Austria
Bangladesh
Brazil
Canada
Chile
China
Colombia
Costa Rica
Ecuador
Finland
France
Germany
Ghana
Hong Kong
India
Indonesia
Ireland
Japan
Kenya
Korea
Mexico
Nigeria
Norway
Philippines
Russia
Saudi Arabia
Singapore
South Africa
Spain
Sweden
Taiwan
Thailand
Turkey
Vietnam
United Kingdom
US
HeadSpin focuses on data-driven testing and iteration to perfect the end user experience combining a global device infrastructure, test automation, and ML-driven performance and quality of experience analytics.
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