How Sauce does it right
January 08, 2018

How Sauce does it right

Brian Smith | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Sauce Labs

I have recommended Sauce to several clients I supported as a consultant of test automation services. It solves the problem of streamlining mobile automation results in a timely fashion. The Sauce labs platform affords users the ability to execute a variety of test suites on multiple devices, even in parallel. Clients I have talked to want results more quickly during each development sprint.
  • The RESTful services API is fully featured.
  • Sauce usually supports latest Appium version, rather quickly.
  • Real device cloud is a much needed feature, and Sauce delivers.
  • Some extra latency sometimes exists between ending a test and when the Sauce UI visually communicates it to you.
  • Sometimes a green checkmark besides a test displays even though it never finishes due to an unexpected problem. It fails, but doesn't register as a failure.
  • No real device cloud access for open source projects.
I used BrowserStack for a time for several web development and testing projects. It was the first platform I inherited while on a project many years ago. The Sauce platform supports more devices and the interface is easier to use on a daily basis. Moreover, the API for Sauce is immensely more accessible and useful.
I have utilized the Sauce platform exclusively with iOS, so I cannot speak for Android. I have had little to no issues executing tests from Appium with Java or directly through Xcode. The interface is simple with very little of what you don't need, if any. There commitment to providing open source projects with jenerous access to their platform is amazing.