BrowserStack hauls in $50 million Series A from Accel

Companies moving to rapid development cycles often don’t have the time frames they once did to perform adequate testing.BrowserStack gives them quick access to a broad set of online testing suites across browser and mobile operating system versions and types.The advantage of a system like BrowserStack is that they are updating the platform for their customers and providing a way to automate a wide variety of testing across different environments.Accel’s Ryan Sweeney admits he’s been tracking BrowserStack for a long time, saying they remind him very much of Atlassian , another company that took aim at the developer tools market and has seen tremendous success .That makes this round, even though it has the A label, more like a later stage investment where the company has established the product-market fit and is trying to find a way to scale that idea.