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What is Sauce Labs?

Sauce Labs is a cloud-based platform for automated testing of desktop and mobile applications. It is designed to be instantly scalable, since it is optimized for continuous integration workflows. (The vendor says that when tests are automated and run in parallel on multiple virtual machines across many different browser, platform and device combinations, testing time is reduced and developer time is freed up from managing infrastructure.) The Sauce Labs testing cloud is intended to be paired with a CI system. According to the vendor, this combination allows developers to easily test desktop and hybrid, native and mobile web applications early on in their development cycles, continuously and affordably.

Sauce Labs provides enterprise-grade security via Sauce Connect™, its secure tunneling protocol for testing behind a firewall while maintaining control of proxy and access policies. Tests are run in the company’s secure data center and VMs are destroyed (not “wiped”) after each run, ensuring customer data is never exposed to future sessions. After tests are completed the Sauce Labs’ dashboard provides a unique build-oriented report with metadata, access to Selenium logs, screenshots, video recordings, and a complete list of commands and responses. Support for SSO lets customers provision new user accounts on the fly with centralized user account management, access control, and usage reporting.

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Sauce Labs UI optimized for continuous integration workflows.

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Sauce Labs is an excellent mobile testing platfor , but it may be too expensive for smaller organizations.

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Felipe LisboaView profile
QA in Quality Assurance at EmCash (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Sauce labs was good until the service became too unreliable to continue using, when we tried to use an device it does not worked, and it made us very sad, but it did a great job when it worked. We used it to verify if our app was functioning correctly.

Pros

  • real devices
  • app testing
  • veracity in test

Cons

  • unreliable

Return on Investment

  • time saving
  • money saving

Alternatives Considered

BrowserStack and Kobiton

Other Software Used

BrowserStack

Picante, Alfredo, Soy? No matter your favorite sauce, Sauce Labs has you covered for software testing!

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John Wanke
Senior Software Engineer in Research & Development at USAA (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Sauce Labs is used by the entire Information Technology organization for testing applications through web browsers. Use of the multiple browser configurations provides environmental coverage for all our supported operating system / browser platform combinations. Sauce Labs allows USAA to test the configurations in parallel and decreases the overall run-time of test suites.

Pros

  • Platform configuration for multiple operating system / browser version combinations.
  • Supports both manual and automated test case execution.
  • Can provision virtual or physical devices.

Cons

  • Provide virtual devices for tablets and phones direct for use without Appium.
  • Decrease the lag time between automated test execution and console display.
  • Better integration publishing test execution results to external test case management systems such as Tricentis qTest.

Return on Investment

  • Staff now more focused on testing and tool development than test environment maintenance.
  • Developers must be aware of differences, especially timing and synchronization, when coding automated tests to use both locally and on Sauce Labs platforms.

Other Software Used

Jira Software, GitLab, Selenium

Usability

The special sauce for our web and mobile testing needs

Naresh Padmanabhan(Paddy)View profile
Practice Manager - Digital Assurance in Quality Assurance at Hexaware Technologies (10,001+ employees employees)

Pros

  • Providing devices and browsers over cloud
  • Intuitive UI

Return on Investment

  • Saved a lot in terms of investment for our client to procure devices for each location
  • Supports distributed teams for testing needs

Alternatives Considered

BrowserStack, Perfecto, by Perforce and pCloudy

Other Software Used

BrowserStack, pCloudy, Perfecto, by Perforce

Usability

Sauce Labs is a great product with a lot of features for debugging

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Mohit GoenkaView profile
Senior Engineering Manager in Engineering at Yahoo! Inc. (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Sauce Labs is used across Yahoo and also in my department (Yahoo Mail). We use Sauce Labs for running UI tests as well as integration tests. It helps us automate the build process by running the tests in a production like environment. There are multiple VMs running the tests in parallel.

Pros

  • Supporting different OS and browser combinations
  • Adding support for new browsers as they get released
  • Detailed analytics view of how the tests are running

Cons

  • Sauce Labs could improve on provide test level analytics

Return on Investment

  • Sauce Labs helps with better reachability when fixing issues, leading to better ROI

Alternatives Considered

Internal solutions

Other Software Used

GitHub, Jira Software

Usability

Sauce Labs automation tool for reducing testing cycle

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Oscar Narváez Del RioView profile
Tools and Analytic Monitoring Leader in Information Technology at Entel (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Sauce Labs is being used for automated and manual testing in the development and testing teams aimed to guarantee the quality of the use cases for app and web applications that will be released to production as critical channels for final users. Sauce Labs automation platform allows reducing testing cycles and time to market in the digital products.

Pros

  • Devices virtualization.
  • API Integration.
  • Product Support.

Cons

  • Virtual devices performance.

Return on Investment

  • Time to market.
  • Decrease time in testing cycle.

Usability

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