HostedQA: Announcing IE7 support

Last week, HostedQA was upgraded to support IE7. With the rush of AJAX-base web applications, IE7 support is a welcome addition by our users, including Joe Walker of DWR fame. This is even more so the case considering how hard it is to get various versions on IE running without a larger investment in physical or virtual computer (both of which require additional software licensing costs).

In fact, for the price it would cost you to purchase just a standalone copy of Windows XP, you could get an entire month of HostedQA paid for. And on top of the collection of browsers that are supported (Firefox, IE6, and IE7), you get all the other great testing tools, such as automatic deployment of your J2EE application, simple record-and-playback tools, easy refactoring support, and informative reports - all through a simple web interface.

Recently, Joe Walker, blogged about how the edit/compile/test phase for AJAX applications can be especially tricky when it comes to various flavors of IE. He had this to say about HostedQA:

DWR has been using HostedQA recently. HostedQA for me is JUnit + Cruise Control + Selenium + an army of browsers. We’ve been testing DWR using HostedQA for a while now and it rocks. It’s helped us find bugs, and the plan is to set it up so we can test with a whole bunch of browsers so I don’t even have to mess about with Firefox profiles. To a certain extent it can make the edit/compile/test cycle an edit/check-in cycle.

(You can see an example DWR report of a test on IE7 here.)

So why not give HostedQA a chance today? You might find it to be the easiest, most affordable, convenient QA tool you’ve ever used.

PS: If you’re developing for an opensource project, we offer HostedQA and Continuous Integration servers free of charge. Go and sign up for a free trial and we’ll be sure to turn it in to a fully paid-for license as soon as we verify your project is opensource.