About HeadSpin
HeadSpin is a commercial platform for testing and optimizing digital experiences on real devices, browsers, networks and locations. It covers mobile apps, web and OTT or smart TV applications, and is used by QA and performance engineering teams that need to see how an app behaves under real-world conditions.
Listed capabilities include real-device and browser testing, global device infrastructure, more than 130 performance KPIs, regression detection across builds, logs, session data and root cause analysis, and support for Appium and Selenium automation. Newer offerings include Cloud Test Lite, Go and Pro tiers, accessibility testing, image injection, and ACE, an AI feature that executes, validates and self-heals tests. Solutions pages cover cross-browser, audio-video, DRM, performance and smart TV testing for industries such as telecom, media, gaming, banking and retail.
Key features
- Real-device and browser testing
- Global device and network coverage
- Performance KPI measurement
- Regression detection across builds
- Appium and Selenium automation
- Root cause analysis with logs and session data
- AI that executes and self-heals tests
Good fit for
- →Smart TV and OTT app testing
- →Mobile performance monitoring across regions
- →Telecom and media app quality checks
- Tags
- device-cloud
- mobile-testing
- performance-testing
- appium
- selenium
- ott-testing
- qa
- proprietary
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