Software Engineering Daily · Thursday, October 1, 2026
David Burns explains BrowserStack's origins as a cloud-based Selenium service addressing scaling challenges for QA teams. He highlights BrowserStack's commitment to giving back to the open-source community, including continued work on Selenium and other projects, fostering a 'rising tide lifts all ships' philosophy.
“So BrowserStack is a testing platform, software as a service. It has various products from a test management tool to AI tooling around testing nowadays. It started out as being Selenium in the cloud because scaling is one of the hardest problems that people tend to have to deal with.”
“And when I was hired, one of the things that I was hired for was giving back to a lot of the communities that had made BrowserStack.”
“And the idea is hopefully a rising tide lifts all ships, right? And makes everyone's life easier along the way.”