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Monday, March 30, 2009

Tool that may help you in cross browser testing

Everybody of you will agree that one of the most toughest and tiresome task is to perform cross browser testing. In addition to Firefox and IE, we’ve got multi-platform versions of Safari, Opera, Chrome, and a wealth of mobile phone browsers. In addition, there are multiple versions of all these browsers, many of which have different rendering mannerism. So, it's like adding fuel to the fire..... To ease out your tension and difficulties, Microsoft has come out with a tool called Expression Web SuperPreview. As per Microsoft, Expression Web SuperPreview for Internet Explorer is a stand-alone visual debugging tool that makes it faster and easier to migrate your sites from Internet Explorer 6 to Internet Explorer 7 or 8. With Expression Web SuperPreview for Internet Explorer, you can ensure that your Web sites work correctly in Internet Explorer 8 while also maintaining compatibility with earlier versions of Internet Explorer.
The problems it caters to:
  • Most browsers can’t have multiple versions installed side-by-side. The newest version replaces older versions. So, you can’t have IE6 and IE7 on the same machine (unless you’re using virtual machines or unstable registry hacks).
  • Many browsers support both Mac and Windows. Devs want to test in (at least) Mac Safari, which doesn’t render the same as Safari on Windows.
Advantage of using Expression Web Super Preview:
  • It simplifies testing and debugging layout issues across different web browsers and platforms.
  • You can view your pages in multiple browsers simultaneously or view how a page renders in a browser and compare it to a comp or mock-up image of a page.
  • You can even do overlays to see exactly where mismatches may occur. To help you quickly figure out where the problem is, DOM highlighting shows absolute positions of the rendered elements and HTML elements display CSS properties.
Are you excited enough to see this product? If yes, I suggest you to visit this link http://www.microsoft.com/expression/features/Default.aspx?key=webpreview for further reading and downloading. Since it is in Beta version, anticipate issues.

Enjoy Testing..Thanks.

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