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Mogotest: Web Testing Made Easier

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62 pointsnirvdrum28 comments

We're a TechStars Boston 2010 company that is launching our front-end Web testing service. Mogotest significantly reduces the pain Web developers and designers face when making sites work in all the various browsers.

We've been running in alpha & beta for about 6 months now, while we've bootstrapped the company (save for the small TechStars investment). We believe -- and more importantly, so do our users -- that we have something useful to the larger Web development community.

Any feedback is appreciated and my co-founder and I will answer any questions the best we can. And thanks to being such a great resource for startups!

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We've been users of Mogotest since they first launched their beta. Amazing time saver (especially if you dev on a Mac). I run automated tests across three sites as well as on demand after major pushes. It's especially helpful for our IE 6/7/8 testing. I used to keep VMWare open to test IE stuff and it killed my poor MB and was still a pita to have multiple IE versions happy in my test XP image. Haven't opened it in months ... don't miss it at all.

Big props to them on their launch.

Cool site but I was expecting to see a screenshot of my page in each browser. Besides validation errors I also care about layout.

http://www.webpagetest.org/ provides that feature (for IE 7/8), I have been using it frequently.

EDIT: Found the right link, sorry for the confusion.

If you click on the URL in the test results, you'll see a grid of your screenshots in each browser. If you hover each thumbnail, you can see a full resolution version or a full canvas version (shows all scrollable content). There's a set of image comparison tools there, too.

The thumbnails are great, but it probably would be better to make getting there more clear. Also, I would put all of the IE screenshots on one row. Great service though, glad to see another option for testing across browsers.

Duly noted. It's a little easier to get there when you you're testing a full site, but we should improve the single URL experience. And thanks for the feedback on the grid.

No problem. I really like how you handled errors and the ability to browse them. That is a cool feature.

A long delayed reply, but this UI has been significantly cleaned up into a simple browser compatibility report.