Sauce Labs

I like the ease to run a lot of combinations of OS/browser/version when i'm testing web apps with selenium just calling selenium hub. Testing and automate tests in different browsers and operative systems is a hard and expensive task, because you have to install and the do all maintenance and updating work.

When you need to trial the application, the trial accounts are very limited, without all OS and browsers available in the professional plans.

I strongly recommend considering this tool if your need is to test web applications in different browsers, devices and operating systems. The characteristics of this platform solves very complex tasks in the field of testing.

The biggest benefit of using saucelabs is the ease of running tests on any operating system, browser and browser version without worrying about the installation and maintenance work involved. It saves many problems and allows you to focus just on designing tests and executing them.

In addition, there is a wide variety of operating systems, devices, browsers, browser versions available.

The service is outstanding. They provide me with the combinations of browsers/platforms that make it easy for me to do my job. And I don't have to spend any of my time maintaining a lab! Lab maintenance is where I found I was spending a lot of time in previous jobs. One less thing to worry about now! I love being able to watch the videos, and to share the screenshots that the system takes for me.

Sometimes it takes a little longer than a few days to get my support cases to closed. They used to be able to turn around support cases in a few hours, but now it's a little longer. It seems to me (anecdotally) that the time needed to get the tests running is a smidge longer. But I have not done anything besides mention this to support.

Of course!

Cross Browser validation

Mobile App validation

Using Sauce labs just saves me time in the long run.

Sauce Labs is great for providing varied mobile and web platform & versions to test against - this includes live and automated. This has been useful to our manual testers as well as some of our CI processes. Their support is also pretty good, I may not get the answer I want right away, but they do respond and are willing to work with me.

I do dislike the slow speeds of testing due to the setup time, especially on mobile devices. Also without some forethought, tests can be very disorganized and unmanageable

We need to be able to ensure that our products work across a varied set of mobile and web platforms to support our business. We are able to to leverage internal and sauce labs servers with different versions of mobile and web to assist in this endeavor. So far, we're finding issues faster than waiting on manual testers checking browsers and validating against real devices in shop.

We have a lots of different device configurations we need to support and Saucelabs provides a great service for mobile and web automated testing requirements. There is, an intuitive and functional user interface and the service allows integration with our chosen continuous integration products.

Occasionally there can be latency issues in which the saucelabs page takes too long to load. This can cause test automation issues and can be annoying.

Great cloud based testing tooling for mobile and web with full integration with continuous integration tooling.

Mobile and web automated testing across many device configurations and full integration with our continuous integration tooling.

The best thing about Sauce Labs is the ability to test our products across a variety of configurations of Operating Systems and browsers. This frees us from all the unneeded maintenance work.

No major issues here. The only thing I have noticed is the fact that tests are not as fast as on a local machine.

I'm running a full-test suite before every software release to make sure it is always working properly. Sauce Labs tests frees our development team from having it to perform them manually.

The variety of browsers available and for each browser, several versions are available. The selection of devices available is really good.

"Live testing" can be a bit slow. Automation can take some time to get setup

Go ahead and try it if you have a web application and need to test it on different browsers and devices.

We have significantly cut down the time it takes to perform cross-browser testing. It allows us to test our web application on different browsers as part of a CI/CD pipeline

Saucelabs integrates with our continuous delivery sytem. Allowing us to test on a ton of different OS and browser configurations. Without the SauceLabs solution, we would have to have 20+ machines in order to create the same solution. And what we get with this solution that we don't get with a local solution is error handling, reporting, screen recording, etc.

I am not sure that there is anything I can say that I don't like. We have been with saucelabs for a number of years, back in the day there were issues, but as time goes on, and saucelabs releases new features and fixes, they are at a point now that they work very well, and meet all my needs.

We needed to run our automation tests on multiple os's, languages, and browser combinations. We also didn't want to have to buy and manager a bunch of hardware. Saucelabs has allowed us to save money and yet have much larger test coverage.

The availability of many operating systems and browsers allows us to test over a wide spectrum.

We had issues testing with Edge. In some cases, we had to start manual tests in Sauce labs to verify a break because automation did not show where breaks occurred.

SL has a nice integration with Jenkins, which has allowed us to schedule cross-browser test suite runs. SL is easy to set up, use and has a great support community.

Cross-browser and end-to-end testing. It highlighted issues with various browsers, mostly Edge and Safari, and allowed us to make necessary fixes.

I looked into saucelabs for a real device cloud solution for automation on native apps, overall I would rate Saucelabs a 6 out of 10 for real devices. They offer a lot of emulators which is fantastic for mobile web testing, not exactly bullet proof solution for Native apps as emulators tend to lie. They offer private and public clouds with their real devices through testobject, parallel execution for automation is also possible on their real devices- ex running iOS and Android automation scripts at the same time on multiple devices and OS. Newest devices are available for immediate use when released, as well as beta OS being an option. Access to secure environments is possible through a tunnel and they integrate with Hockey and Appium.

For real devices we had several dislikes for Saucelabs (TestObject)

-They only have devices in the US and EU, can be a con for an app available in several different countries

- Appium logs are not viewable on the same screen as the cycle running

-No access to short key of the real devices (volume button, etc)

-Android devices had outdated google play services our apps didn't even support.

- When you face issues on the real devices their support team always guides you to use their emulators. You get these for free through Android studio and Xcode, why would you pay for them? Offering emulators is not some groundbreaking solution, there are free options, you do not need to pay for them.

If seeking a real device solution for a native app available in several countries, look elsewhere.

We are using them for browser and mobile testing, they did not satisfy all of the business needs for native app testing.