Which Amazon EC2 AMI to use for cross browser testing?
Which Amazon EC2 AMI should I use for cross browser testing? I'd like to test on IE6, IE7 and IE8 (using a Mac), and would like an AMI with sensible settings, and perhaps something like Superpreview or IETester preinstalled.
Solution 1:
Here are a set of AMIs that cover all versions of IE. There are available in the us-east region.
http://www.hens-teeth.net/cross-browser-testing
Solution 2:
If you only do this a few times a year, it might be more cost effective to try one of the cross-browser testing services that are already out there. Here are a couple:
- CrossBrowserTesting
- BrowserShots
- Browsera
- BrowserStack
- Review of cross-browser test tools and services
Good luck !
Solution 3:
My advice is not to use any. Instead, install http://www.virtualbox.org/ which will allow you to virtualise Windows; this means that Windows will literally run in a window on your Mac OSX desktop; and you can install whatever browser you want on it. We do this routinely.
Solution 4:
Have you tried the official MS Virtual pc images ? MS provide them for testing browser compatibility. Using virtualbox as underlined in a previous post you should be able to load them.