Item: Sauce Labs
Rating: 10
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Sauce Labs

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

My company is big enough that there is no "one way" to do things. It is used here and there across the company, but there is a dedicated Slack channel for it, so that is good.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Gets good people to work for it. These guys and gals are freed and just want you to succeed.
Sauce Labs listens to what the customers want. (Though I could still use an AWS East-1, hint-hint.)
They come to us when we ask, so that is pretty cool.

Cons

Some of the documentation is old.
Some of the documentation is missing for pure beginners. There are companies that throw newbies to the wolves with testing and say, "Go do this thing."
"This thing" can't always be done with the enormity of the new toys that are available if those toys don't have "Step 1: Power on computer" kinds of tutorials.

Return on Investment

Eh... Negligible? Being on AWS West makes it quite a few hops for us, so the process times out every now and again. That is frustrating.
I can't really speak to the dollars, as I am not privy to the information.

Other Software Used

Atom, Microsoft Visual Studio Code, Cypress

It works great in that I don't have to deal with evergreen browsers or a VM lab. I spin up what I want, and I go for it.
I am a little excited about the new docker boxes. I don't really know what they do, but I am excited to see if it is what I think it is.
The engagement process with secret sauce is a little kitschy. Not particularly my style, but whatever.
Sauce Labs also simplifies the Visual Validation Testing by not having to have two contracts. It sucks for Applitools, but competition is competition. Don't get me wrong, I love Adam and Moshe to death, but now they have to up their game a little bit.

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Hey, man, Sauce Labs works and has good people. Get with it.

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