--- title: OS X Testing with Selenium WebDriver | TestingBot Blog description: |- Currently we are the only company providing OS X support to our customers. When you run a test on one of our Mac nodes, we reserve a dedicated VM r... source_url: html: https://testingbot.com/blog/2012/08/03/os-x-testing-with-selenium-webdriver md: https://testingbot.com/blog/2012/08/03/os-x-testing-with-selenium-webdriver.md --- # macOS WebDriver Testing By [Jochen D.](https://testingbot.com/about/jochen-d)2012-08-03 Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Post on Reddit Share link Currently we are the only company providing OS X support to our customers. When you run a test on one of our Mac nodes, we reserve a dedicated VM running OS X Lion on a beefy Mac Pro running VMWare. These last few weeks, we've made quite a few optimisations on OS X to improve overall testing, here's what we've done: ## Added OS X Safari 6 with WebDriver This week we've added Safari 6 Mac OS X to our [list of supported browsers](https://testingbot.com/support/web-automate/browsers). With 58 browser/OS combinations, we've got most of the combinations covered. Next to Safari 6, we also provide Safari 5 on Mac OS X Lion and Windows. Yesterday we have added support for our [Tunnel](https://testingbot.com/support/tunnel) to Safari WebDriver, which means you can now run tests against Safari 5 and Safari 6 from your local network. Our Tunnel is now supported with all browser combinations, even with iPhone/iPad and Android emulators. ## Improved iOS Testing We've learned from extensive testing with the iOS simulator that the simulator sometimes acts strangely. 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