Screenshots, Flickr, Mashups, Oh My!

Our 'next big enhancement' to the site is officially out... well,officially out in beta - the ability to capture screenshots of your testing session.

We had several goals for this release:
- make it easy for you to document problems you see by taking a snapshot
- ability to annotate the snapshots, recording details about any issues
- make it easy for you to share this information with others on your team
- ability to put together 'proof sheets' showing that web site has been tested in multiple browsers and rendered correctly in all of them.

In looking at this, we wanted to have a really slick UI to manage the photos, add captions to them, etc - so we started looking at how the 'pros' do it at sites such as Flickr. In looking at Flickr - it had everything we needed... so, instead of writing code to duplicate their functionality, we mashed!

We you press the 'snapshot' button at the top of the testing console, a new window or tab will appear. You will have to login or create a Yahoo Flickr account, then authorize CrossBrowserTesting.com to have write permission to this account. The snapshots will be automatically loaded into your Flickr account, where you can label them, share them, and create really cool slideshows which showcase your work, and let everybody (particularly your customers) see that your sites are built to work across multiple browsers and configurations.

Here is an example a test of Digg.com across multiple browsers and operating systems: