As I tweeted yesterday, today is the day I officially launch my company. BrowserMob opens the doors today by offering the first on-demand, low-cost load testing service that uses real web browsers.
Please read the official announcement for all the details.
When I left Gomez, I didn’t intend to create another testing tools business. My last one, HostedQA (functional Selenium testing in the cloud) was acquired by Gomez a couple years ago.
But as I looked around and got some fresh perspective of the market, I realized that there was still a lot of pain when it came to QA and web applications, especially in the area of proper performance testing.
And thus, BrowserMob was born.
Please check it out and let me know what you think. We’ve got a lot more that we want to do, but we think this initial version is going to radically change the way load testing is done. But what we think is irrelevant. The question is: what do you think?
on Nov 25th, 2008 at 9:38 pm
Thanks a lot Patrick. Since you had Twitt, I was googling around to see what is the Next Offer of this (ever intelligent ) brilliant guy.
Thanks for the post now I know what are you upto another selenium base solution but for Load Testing this time.
I had used KeyNote in the past, God that was expensive. After spending few minutes at http://browsermob.com , I only see firefox as the real browser (http://browsermob.com/pricing).
As it is selenium based what is stopping you to add other browsers?.
on Nov 26th, 2008 at 6:50 am
Mubbashir,
I’m pretty sure we’re a LOT more affordable than Keynote
As for your question. No major reason we didn’t use other browsers. We went with Firefox because our infrastructure is all Linux-based right now (keeps our costs lower) and because Firefox is the most stable platform for Selenium automation. But I definitely have IE7 support on our roadmap