Item: Sauce Labs
Rating: 8
Author: Taylor Campbell

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use sauce labs across our organization. It is good for testing software for devices that we do not have physical access to.

Pros and Cons

Testing software on devices that you do not have physical access to
Testing software on older browsers

It can be a little quicker to load
Would like the feature of downloading software

Business Outcomes

Improve quality by increasing browser/OS/device coverage

I think it has allowed our organization to improve quality, cost and time. Without sauce labs, we would have to purchase physical devices and this would cost more money and slow our process down. The automation suites we run also increase quality and decrease time and resources that we would have to use for manual testing.

Buy versus Build

I think you have to make careful choices as an organization on when you should build or when you should use third party software. Sauce labs is a pretty good product, so we didn't feel it was necessary to build something ourselves. We are happy with our decision.

Alternatives Considered

BrowserStack

I think BrowserStack is a decent competitor with similar features to Sauce Labs. I have also used VMware, however, VMware takes up a lot of storage on your computer. Sauce Labs has pretty good documentation and webinars which I think are useful for the consumer to understand how to use it.

Other Software Used

BrowserStack

Likelihood to Recommend

I think it is well suited when you do not have access to the particular device. It is also good for hooking up automation suites and is fairly easy to do this with good documentation. I think it is less appropriate when you have the physical device you need for testing.