If you are just setting up as a developer or need to know what testing suite to set up in your office before you send your client their completed web site.

Here’s the definite list for bulletproof browser testing suite:

Cloud services

• Online: Browsershots – Cost – free – all browsers current and past versions.

Local installs on a Mac

• Mac OS X: Opera, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Camino
• Mac OS X using Parallels with installs of Linux, Win XP and Win Vista operating systems:
  • Windows XP: Opera, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, IE6, IE7 and IE8 – using IE tester.
  • Windows 7: Opera, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, IE6, IE7 and IE8 – using IE tester.
  • Windows Vista: (if required)
  • Linux: Seamonkey, Opera, Firefox, Chrome, Safari

As part of your quality assurance you should include which browsers and operating systems you are testing on in your client contract. Any backward compatible coding for IE6 or below should be added at extra cost if required.

With existing sites, if you look at Google analytics data, you will be able to see the share of users using each browser and make the best judgement from there, in terms of which old browsers to support.

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