Why we use Sauce Labs
Updated November 17, 2017
Why we use Sauce Labs
Score 10 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Sauce Labs
We use Sauce Labs in different departments within our organization, we have an entrepreneur license. Most quality departments rely intensively on Sauce Labs' results, we have a build setup via Jenkins which starts the test automatically in Sauce Labs as soon as there is a code change in master repo. It sends results (failure) via email which we can later be troubleshot by watching a playback video of the actual test, these test video clips are stored in the Sauce Labs dashboard.
- Ability to run tests across different platforms and various browser combinations without having to manage devices.
- Images and video capture of tests which can be playback later.
- Secure connection provided via Sauce Connect.
- Ability to configure it with various third party tools, such as Applitools.
- Parallel testing is a bliss.
- Free webinars provided by Sauce Labs are a great source to gain more insights.
- Mobile app for Sauce Labs.
- Sometimes we have test that gets stuck and stays in paused mode for 32 minutes which is a default timeout - this prolongs the entire test job.
We selected Sauce Labs because it is very resilient with extremely minimum downtime, and is easy to use with a user-friendly UI to manage and maintain test suites. It is also easily integrable with Jenkins.
Evaluating Sauce Labs and Competitors
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It offers a wide variety and combination of platforms to run our regression test on and the great thing is that we don't have to maintain any of the devices, its all virtual, fast and reliable and you can record all the session for viewing later. It also supports mobile testing and offers webinars to get people started from ground up
I will choose Saucelabs over and over again, hence the reason we have recently signed up for an enterprise account and we are on-boarding more teams with in the company to start utilizing Sauce Labs