BrowserStack

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BrowserStack
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founding 2011
Seat Mumbai , India
management Ritesh Arora, Nakul Aggarwal
Website www.browserstack.com

BrowserStack is a cloud- based test platform for web and mobile. It allows software developers to test their websites and mobile apps on various available web browsers , operating systems and mobile phones without installing the software themselves or having an internal collection of virtual machines , devices or emulators .

history

The service was founded in 2011 by Ritesh Arora and Nakul Aggarwal in Mumbai , India and has since received widespread acceptance in the web developer community because the service allows them to easily test the layout and speed of various web browser / operating system combinations without having to hold them all up yourself. BrowserStack has over 25,000 paying customers and 2,000,000 registered developers in more than 135 countries. Software companies around the world use BrowserStack to test their browser-based software and apps for smartphones. These include industry leaders such as Microsoft , ING Groep , Mastercard , Dow Jones , Garmin , National Geographic , Volvo , NRK, HubSpot, Walt Disney and AngularJS .

The firm has offices in San Francisco , Mumbai and Dublin and is privately owned. In January 2018, the company received $ 50 million from venture capitalist Accel as part of a Series A financing .

Components

BrowserStack offers the following products and services:

  • Live: Browser live test of websites
  • Automate: Automated testing of websites with the help of Selenium
  • App Live: Interactive testing of native and hybrid apps on physical devices / smartphones
  • App Automate: Automated testing of apps

Users can choose from 1200 on-demand mobile devices (physically available, no emulators), web browsers and operating systems and rely on a secure, stable and scalable infrastructure that is capable of executing thousands of simultaneous manual or automated tests. BrowserStack helps software teams keep their testing time, cost, and maintenance low and focus on building the products.

Theft of email addresses

In November 2014, a Gray Hat was able to obtain the email addresses of 5000 developers who use BrowserStack. This number corresponds to about 1% of their 500,000 customers at the time. He took advantage of the Shellshock vulnerability. The hacker then sent these developers an email that supposedly came from the BrowserStack team, announcing that BrowserStack would be shut down, and apologizing to users that various security measures did not meet requirements. In a later communication, this time verifiably from the BrowserStack team, it is explained that the BrowserStack application is operated on servers of Amazon Web Services . Their configuration consists of thousands of servers. One of these servers was an old machine that contained a prototype of the application and that was the target of the attack. The notice commented on the hacker's allegations, stating that the hacker could be stopped before it could get hold of any more email addresses or gain access to the patched servers.

Individual evidence

  1. BrowserStack simplifies web application testing . Retrieved August 28, 2013.
  2. ET Startup Awards 2015: No venture funding yet, but BrowserStack has cracked the code to profitability . Economic Times. Retrieved August 14, 2015.
  3. BrowserStack hauls in $ 50 million Series A from Accel - TechCrunch ( en-US ). Retrieved May 14, 2018.
  4. ^ A b Eduard Kovacs: BrowserStack Says Hackers Exploited ShellShock Vulnerability . SecurityWeek . November 13, 2014. Archived from the original on March 18, 2015. Retrieved October 29, 2015.
  5. Darlene Storm: BrowserStack hacked: Attacker sends email to customers alleging shoddy security . Computerworld . November 10, 2014. Archived from the original on March 18, 2014. Retrieved October 29, 2015.
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