A Sauce Review
Updated May 10, 2019
A Sauce Review
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Sauce Labs
Helps us with our user acceptance tests for multiple browser analysis.
- spin up environments
- Sauce connect! For running on my local machine
- review archives of runs across environments
- concurrent sessions
- logs can be more descriptive
- tests run significantly slower when pointed at SL
Evaluating Sauce Labs and Competitors
Not Sure
- Product Usability
Ease to write up automation and train new engineers
Perform interviews with other teams about their processes. I would also seek to demo competitive solutions.
Using Sauce Labs
10 - Customer facing software to validate user workflows and acceptance.
5 - Developers, QA, and architect engineers.
- Nightly regression runs.
- Validating defects do not return.
- Confirming new feature user flows.
- to assist with manual testing by spinning up a selected browser and starting point.
- Increasing boundary test limits such as capturing 1000 scenarios versus 10.
- Finding inconsistencies in JS between browsers.
- Video capture to show new hires the overhead view of functionality.
- Showing stakeholders the run count for confidence.
- Jr engineers can write automation before diving into feature development.
Sauce Labs Implementation
- Implemented in-house
Change management was minimal - NA
- Transfer of Knowledge.
- Increasing learning curve.
- Implementing with CI.
Sauce Labs Support
Using Sauce Labs
| Pros | Cons |
|---|---|
Like to use Well integrated Feel confident using | Unnecessarily complex Difficult to use Inconsistent Slow to learn Lots to learn |
- Integrating with Jenkins
- Integrating with Testrail
- Running automation.
- Adding a new framework.
- Sauce Connect
- Determining if failures are a system issue or flaky test.