Answer: Maik Nog – hanseatictester.info / @maiknog
The easiest way to improve browser coverage to 100% is to change the requirements and make IE mandatory and the *only* supported browser. Then you start increasing your coverage ABOVE 100% when you mix an additional Firefox or Opera into it.
Answer: Rob Lowry – roblowry.wordpress.com
Add more browsers! Discover what the average browser use is for your area, or just look at the overall browser usage statistics are and incorporate the top 3-4 browsers. At the moment that would be Internet Explorer 8, Firefox, Chrome and Safari. Get each of them, and split coverage against core testing across them.
Also, for deeper testing, be sure to test various versions of each, such as including IE7 and IE9, Firefox 3 and possibly adding a non-current Safari or Opera or such. Adding additional coverage should really include all of these, but even just adding test support for Firefox and Chrome and Safari will give a better foundation than simply testing against IE only.
Answer: Sakamoto Kazuma – sakamotokazuma.com
Test the most used browsers. Safari, Firefox, chrome and opera.
Answer: Christian Baumann – agile-and-testing.chriss-baumann.de
The testing effort is -at first sight- proportional to the number of browsers you have to test on. Why? Because you have to execute the same tests in every browser to ensure everything is working fine in every browser.
The no-brain-solution would be, to hire more people who then execute the tests. Probably the most expensive solution.
The step which brings IMHO the quickest win would be, to try to identify areas, where you can go sure, that the AUT (application under tests) behaves the same in a subset of browsers, this might be the case for e.g. browsers using the same engine (for example the Webkit is used by Chrome & Safari), or for parts of the application that happens on server-side, e.g. a search.
But what you definitely should go for is test automation. Using a tool like Selenium or Watir (which are for free BTW) brings you the high benefit of having your tests automated, and with those tool´s ability to execute the same scripts on a couple of browsers with nearly no extra efforts, testing the same AUT in multiple browsers, the nightmare of having to do this manually really loses its scare.
