BrowserCam is a pretty cool tool
Monday April 17, 2006
I set up a 24-hour trial of BrowserCam and it is a pretty cool tool. It allows you to see screen shots of your Web site in a bunch of different browsers and operating systems. This is especially handy for testing, as then you don't need to buy and maintain lots of different computers and operating systems.
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I used BrowserCam quite a bit last year and there is something you need to watch out for when using it’s remote session feature. There were times when the connection dropped while we were testing a development/soft launch version of a client’s web app. The first few times it happened it didn’t seem like a big deal. At times though, when we would log back in, we would happen to catch the same machine and sometimes we would get another machine.
Just as we were wondering what happens to our sessions when we loose a connection, we logged in and there was some other web application open. We had just started a new remote session and when the screen came up there was a browser, open and logged into a web development company’s testing server. This happened more than once. Sometimes it was just some random site in the browser but more often it was something more sensitive, like their webmail. Keep this in mind when you think of using the remote access. It is possible that some other Browsercam user could get access to whatever you have been working on.