Overall Satisfaction with Sauce Labs
QA team and development team are using Sauce Labs according to their needs. The development team is using sauce lab to trigger some expresso lab tests. QA team is using Sauce Labs for daily automation test cases execution on different platforms like mobile (android and ios) and web. Every day, CI pipeline triggers the execution on a Sauce Labs server with 15 parallel connections. QA team is using sauce connect to check how the application is behaving when it gets launched in the different country. Sauce Labs has a great range of emulators which is many times used to do some manual testing also.
- The biggest strength of Sauce Labs is very easy to configure.
- Supports parallel execution on different devices and os combination.
- Very good reporting which includes video, technical logs, charts, graphs which helps automation engineers to debug the failures in execution.
- Increase the range of real devices for testing with less cost.
- Support for high definition video playing on emulators.
- Many time performance of the execution is really slow, especially when connected with Sauce Connect.
- Reduce the test time by 40% with access to multiple browser, devices and OS
- History based reports to compare results
- Secure platform with encryption support, as we are in finance domain
Sauce Labs is easier to configure, also it has a great documentation which helps a non-technical user in a great way. Sauce Labs is pretty good in performance compared to BrowserStack. And with a variety of support for different automation tools, makes a Sauce Labs 100% a first choice for the organisation to go for their daily automation execution tool.
Sauce Labs Features & Support
Evaluating Sauce Labs and Competitors
Yes - Browserstack. Performance and good support from Saucelab.
- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Product Reputation
- Prior Experience with the Product
Produce Features
- Range of OS, Devices, Browsers
- Support for actual physical devices
- Dashboard reports
- Range of OS, Devices, Browsers
- Support for actual physical devices
- Dashboard reports
Cost is always a decisive factor in making a final call. If some other tools provide the same range of features with less cost, then company could decide to switch to other platforms. And change is always a constant. If product does not evolve with time, then it always lost it's interest. So keep on entertaining your customers.
Using Sauce Labs
25 - I am from Quality assurance team.
2 - - You should know saucelab tools in and out
- Scripting language
- Shell scripting
- Scripting language
- Shell scripting
- Mobile automation
- Web browser automation
- Native application automation
- Parallel execution
- Great HTML reports
- Keep supporting different new OS
- Keep supporting latest devices
Sauce Labs Support
Pros | Cons |
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Good followup Problems get solved Support cares about my success | None |
Not yet. As we have some inhouse engineer, who have a strong knowledge.
Yes - Yes.
Yes, I remember when we stuck during creating a proper tunnels for Parallel testing and Saucelab team helped us to guide with best practices to achieve that.
Using Sauce Labs
Pros | Cons |
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Like to use Well integrated Consistent Feel confident using | Requires technical support |
- Mobile automation
- Web browser automation
- Reports
- Debugging
- Setup a tunnel
- Debugging of reports
- Parallel execution