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    BlazeMeter

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AThe BlazeMeter Continuous Testing Platform is a unified, end-to-end, next-generation software test automation platform built for both Agile and COE teams, from Perforce. BlazeMeter includes complete continuous testing capabilities deeply integrated into a single, intuitive workflow.

    $199

    per month

    Sauce Labs

    Score6.8 out of 10
    N/ASauce 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…

    $19

    per month

    Pricing
    BlazeMeterSauce Labs
    Editions & Modules
    Basic
    $149.00
    per month
    Pro
    $649.00
    per month
    Live Testing
    $19.00
    per month
    Virtual Cloud
    $149.00
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    BlazeMeterSauce Labs
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
    Additional Details—Free service available for Open Source projects.
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    Community Pulse
    BlazeMeterSauce Labs
    Considered Both Products
    Perforce Software
    Chose BlazeMeter
    BlazeMeter integrates better with a continuous delivery pipeline than SOASTA did.
    Incentivized
    Sauce Labs
    Chose Sauce Labs
    The services Sauce Labs provided are really outstanding, and they gave us really competitive prices with some additional features in the package.
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    No answers on this topic
    90%
    Would buy again
    19 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    19 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    No answers on this topic
    95%
    Happy with the feature set
    20 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    11 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    90%
    Implementation went as expected
    18 Answers
    Features
    BlazeMeterSauce Labs
    Automation Testing
    Comparison of Automation Testing features of BlazeMeter and Sauce Labs
    Feature
    BlazeMeter
    9.0
    1 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Sauce Labs
    -
    Ratings
    CI/CD Tool Integration9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integrated Version Control9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data-Driven Testing9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Testing Collaboration9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Testing Reports & Analytics9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Score8.3 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    BlazeMeterSauce Labs
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    5.6
    (158 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.3
    (20 ratings)
    Usability
    -
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    8.4
    (20 ratings)
    Availability
    -
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    10.0
    (4 ratings)
    Performance
    -
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    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
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    8.3
    (15 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
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    7.5
    (6 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
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    8.2
    (3 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
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    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
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    10.0
    (4 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
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    9.0
    (4 ratings)
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    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    BlazeMeterSauce Labs
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Perforce Software
    It is well suited for applications that are mission-critical or applications that can receive high traffic/transactions at unscheduled time periods. Using the load testing feature of BlazeMeter, we can test and ascertain the capacity of the application without the drawbacks of the usual Apache JMeter load testing which depends heavily on the host system from where the load testing is performed.
    Incentivized
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    Sauce Labs
    Having used some of the competitor's tools over the year I would say that SauceLabs provides a lot of value for money if you plan to run long sets of tests with high frequencies. Paying for a single slot means you can run tests whenever you want without creeping costs but it does make running tests in parallel require an extra slot. Currently, our test suite takes over three hours to run and at the moment it is cost prohibitive to purchase an extra slot. However, having access to live testing and integration with Appium is great.
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    Pros
    Perforce Software
    • BlazeMeter takes the .jmx script that teams had written for JMeter. The transition from JMeter to BlazeMeter was seamless.
    • BlazeMeter offers its own cloud and hence we did not have to set it up on-premise.
    • BlazeMeter hits our application from various geographic locations that simulates real life users.
    Incentivized
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    Sauce Labs
    • Provides a comprehensive selection of browser and platform versions for test automation and CI/CD pipeline support
    • Provides a rich selection of browser/platform availability for customer issue reproduction
    • Provides a comprehensive set of virtual mobile device configurations for automation and availability
    • Sauce Labs' SaaS and self service tools work and perform well
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Perforce Software
    • Blazemeter reporting is very basic and shallow. There is no way to drill down or correlate. I can get better reports by using JMeter for free.
    • Blazemeter is very costly. Testing with volumes of more than 1K cu is expensive, and can be done for much cheaper if a company/team is willing to invest a bit of time to figure out how to use cloud instances and jmeter slaves, and to write a basic script to collect resulting xml output.
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    Sauce Labs
    • I've had four changes in account managers over the past couple of years. They ranged from super experienced/advocate to some that seems relatively junior/a bit removed. I understand this happens but clarity on what I can expect with these partnerships would be valuable. What I've gotten in the end has varied dramatically.
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Perforce Software
    No answers on this topic
    Sauce Labs
    As we currently know, there's nothing on the market with a big feature set like saucelabs at their current price point. Along with the business not having to learn a whole new tool to use again and the ability to refresh our private devices and the continuously growing number of public devices available and features.
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    Usability
    Perforce Software
    Easy to setup to do API Performance Testing. Dashboard to showcase results Capability to showcase runtime results
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    Sauce Labs
    It is an incredibly easy service to use for what its primary intention is. The only reason a point is deducted is because more feature enrichment can be done around the Sauce Connect Proxy utility and the Jenkins Sauce OnDemand plugin. User Account administration also needs more work, such as the addition of user groups, rather than a simple hierarchy of users.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Perforce Software
    No answers on this topic
    Sauce Labs
    Yes, Sauce labs is always there, and it is easy to troubleshoot when you are having any connectivity issue, they always keep you informed when they plan to perform any type of maintenance window on their side in advance, so you can plan and will not affect your current work. I do not recall any outage.
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    Performance
    Perforce Software
    No answers on this topic
    Sauce Labs
    The time where they acquired TestObject and were trying to integrate their services would probably be the most annoying time. Annoying as features were in two separate places (websites) for example. But since the introduction of their unified platform, we haven't run into any issues as of yet and we've used them for at least 5-6 years now.
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    Support Rating
    Perforce Software
    No answers on this topic
    Sauce Labs
    The people here are just so friendly and personable. For instance, Tristan Lombard answered every single email with a very cheery tone and not only did he diagnose my issue, he also made sure to ask how my day was going. Keep it up
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    Implementation Rating
    Perforce Software
    No answers on this topic
    Sauce Labs
    I am not sure if it's my company that makes getting Sauce Labs integrated into the team difficult or is it Sauce Labs. The process for getting Sauce Labs for a project is quite a tedious process and the information for using Sauce Labs initially is quite lacking. There is little support for getting started
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    Alternatives Considered
    Perforce Software
    In comparison with Blazemeter the closes competitor is JMeter but it has disadvantages like it is not a tool that can be use as a collaborative tool and works locally in a computer, Blazemeter is in the web so different people can access and run tests or collaborate do add, edit or delete the existent scripts.
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    Sauce Labs
    We have also tested out Browser Stack, which at the time was more geared towards manual testing. Although it appeared to support more mobile devices/browsers, we also wanted something that can plugin in easily with our existing Selenium test scripts. Sauce Labs was definitely more geared towards our goals at the moment which were to automation functional/regression testing and build it into our release pipeline.
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    Scalability
    Perforce Software
    No answers on this topic
    Sauce Labs
    With private devices, you have full reign over usage of them, so no complaints there. Public devices are available if no one else is using it, which is understandable. Browser VMs are based on number of open sessions and Saucelabs give you a certain number depending on what you need. If you need more, then you pay for more. It is as simple as that. You need more devices, then you can pay for more private ones too. A workaround for public devices is to pick the first available one and not be too picky, that's if you are able to of course.
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    Return on Investment
    Perforce Software
    • It helped positively by helping to identify the maximum capacity needed for high traffic periods
    • Saved revenue by eliminating unwanted duplication of systems
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    Sauce Labs
    • Eh... Negligible? Being on AWS West makes it quite a few hops for us, so the process times out every now and again. That is frustrating.
    • I can't really speak to the dollars, as I am not privy to the information.
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    ScreenShots

    Sauce Labs Screenshots

    Screenshot of Sauce Labs UI optimized for continuous integration workflows.