Sauce Labs Rules - Others wish they were as cool!
Updated November 17, 2017
Sauce Labs Rules - Others wish they were as cool!
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Sauce Labs
We use Sauce Labs for two main purposes. First in our automation testing. We run tests during our continuous delivery process. Sauce labs gives us the ability to run lots of tests concurrently and various browsers and OSs in a much shorter and cost effective way, compared to trying to set up our own distributed solution.
Second, we use Sauce Labs to run manual tests. Having the ability to bring up any OS and browser configuration possible, in just a few clicks of the mouse, is amazing. I have in the past had 10-12 machines in a lab that had different OS versions and browsers installed, so that I could have those configs available for testing. Managing that was a pain. And the cost was huge, hardware, floor space, power, and maintenance. Sauce labs gives me 10 times the number of configurations, with non of the other problems, at a very reasonable monthly cost.
All in all, Sauce Labs has simplified my life greatly. Improved my coverage. Sped up my automation test runs. And made my life better. Thank you Sauce Labs!
Second, we use Sauce Labs to run manual tests. Having the ability to bring up any OS and browser configuration possible, in just a few clicks of the mouse, is amazing. I have in the past had 10-12 machines in a lab that had different OS versions and browsers installed, so that I could have those configs available for testing. Managing that was a pain. And the cost was huge, hardware, floor space, power, and maintenance. Sauce labs gives me 10 times the number of configurations, with non of the other problems, at a very reasonable monthly cost.
All in all, Sauce Labs has simplified my life greatly. Improved my coverage. Sped up my automation test runs. And made my life better. Thank you Sauce Labs!
- Ability to have lots and lots of OS/browser configurations at my fingertips. I don't have to have physical machines or VMs that I have to maintain myself. Hit the website, and I have the resources I need right there.
- The ability to launch a machine from my automation tests, run the test, report, shutdown the test and move on to the next one. I have used Sauce Labs with Selenium in Java in the past, and now with Selenium, protractor in Java-Script. Works like a champ.
In the past, I have had my own labs. Trying to keep machines updated, running, and everything else is a pain. And it's very costly. Using Sauce Labs I pay a small monthly fee, and I have all the pain taken away. How amazing is that? From a manager's perspective, my people don't have to spend their time managing machines, now they can do what they were hired to do, test software.
Using Sauce Labs
50 - QA and Web Development.
1 - The support side of Sauce Labs is pretty none existent. It's just always there and always working. We use it for automated testing, and also manual testing.
- Automated testing of our website. Our site gets 1.5million hits a day. We do continuous development. Without saucelabs there is no way that we could release 50+ times a day to our production site.
- We also use if for manual testing. When we need to test a unique OS and browser configuration, we simply select what we want in SL, and like magic, there it is. We don't need a ton of physical machines to have all the various OS and browser config's that we support. Saves us a ton of time and money.
- We hope to get our automated tests to run on mobile config's in the future.