Strategies for Testing IE on Different Platforms

Run multiple versions of Internet Explorer on the same PC via Virtual Machines

You might believe that web developers who use Windows as their primary OS have it easy, when testing Internet Explorer; simply click on the blue “E” and go to town. That might be true if they only had to worry about the version of IE on their PC, but Rey Bango knows that’s not the case. Depending on your project’s needs, you may need to ensure compatibility from IE6 through IE10, which certainly poses some challenges.

 

To have the most reliable testing experience, you’ll need to either have multiple PCs (physical or virtual) running different versions of Windows/IE. Unless you’ve got money burning a hole in your pocket, Rey Bango is thinking the VM route is probably the best choice.
Virtual Machines
Rey Bango really likes using virtual machines because it gives him the opportunity to test not only browsers, but different OSes from within his own PC. As much as he would like to have a ton of devices to test and play with. He has had VMs at some point for every major version of Windows and Ubuntu. It’d be great to be able to run OSX, but his understanding is that there are technical and licensing issues with doing that.

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