#1 most frequent
United States of America
55.7%802 installations of 1,439
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.
Categories & Use Cases
Media
Screenshot of Sauce Labs UI optimized for continuous integration workflows.
Who Buys & Uses Sauce Labs
#2 most frequent
India
12.0%172 installations of 1,439
#3 most frequent
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
5.8%83 installations of 1,439
Sauce Labs is an excellent mobile testing platfor , but it may be too expensive for smaller organizations.
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!
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
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
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
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.
