Why choose Headspin over Browserstack?

HeadSpin's Happy Customers

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

Competitor Benchmarking

Yes

Video testing

Yes

Manual Testing

Yes

Automated Testing

Yes

Pre-release Testing

Yes

Functional Testing

Yes

Root Cause Analysis

Yes

Regression testing and analysis

Yes

Firestick

Yes

Integrations

Appium

Yes

Selenium

Yes

Appium Inspector

Yes

Compatible technologies with HeadSpin

Experitest

Yes

WebPage Test

Yes

FitNesse

Yes

KIF

Yes

Charles Proxy

Yes

Espresso Android

Yes

Xcode

Yes

Android Studio

Yes

Flutter

Yes

Cucumber

Yes

UI Automator

Yes

Junit

Yes

XCTest

Yes

Calabash

Yes

Unified Functional Testing

Yes

TestNG

Yes

Earlgrey

Yes

Puppeteer

Yes

Playwright

Yes

Jira

Yes

Slack

Yes

Jenkins

Yes

Use Cases

Device Options

Voice Assistants: Cortana, Google Assistant

Yes

Zebra devices

Yes

Chromecast

Yes

AirTV

Yes

Apple TV

Yes

Android TV

Yes

Android phones

Yes

iPhones

Yes

Browser testing on laptops

Yes

Firestick

Yes

Wearables (Android based devices)

Yes

Deployment Options

On-prem (customer premise)

Yes

Dedicated/Single Tenant (cloud hosted)

Yes

Shared/Multi-tenant (cloud hosted)

Yes

HeadSpin Create Your Own Lab

Yes

On-the-go

Yes

Hybrid (One or all of the above)

Yes

Locations

100+

15+

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

Yes

Audio Too Quiet

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

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

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

Yes

Set up a proactive regression Alert Watcher

Yes

Business intelligence database

Yes

Use Cases

Reference free quality evaluation of audio content

Yes

Audio Match Analysis

Yes

Support for multiple audio device configurations

Yes

Real-time audio playback and microphone quality testing

Yes

Drive tests to understand audio quality on the move

Yes

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Use Cases

Live streaming Quality analysis

Yes

Video Conferencing & Video Calling evaluation

Yes

Support for multiple video device configurations

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

The HeadSpin platform is deployed in the United States.

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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Self Serve

Self Serve

Enterprise

Core Enterprise Products

Self Serve

Enterprise

Core Enterprise Products

HeadSpin v/s BrowserStack

HeadSpin customers have seen the following outcomes

60%

68%

30%

90%

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HeadSpin's Happy Customers

Why choose HeadSpin over BrowserStack?

We are present in the following locations

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.

Self Serve

Self Serve

Enterprise

Core Enterprise Products

Self Serve

Enterprise

Core Enterprise Products

HeadSpin v/s BrowserStack

HeadSpin customers have seen the following outcomes

60%

68%

30%

90%

Book free trial

HeadSpin's Happy Customers

Why choose HeadSpin over BrowserStack?

We are present in the following locations

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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