It is one of the best cross-browser testing tool that provides both web and mobile application testing. It is a cloud-based testing that offers continuous testing on over 800 operating systems and browser combinations. It automates web application testing by using iOS simulators and android emulators. It offers live web testing that gives instant access to browsers and OS in cloud environment to debug applications and test corner cases. In addition, it also provides secure mobile application testing and supports test automation with automation frameworks such as Espresso and Appium. Moreover, it is an open source software that gives you full access to it’s source code.
| Support | Online | Customer Type | Large Enterprises Medium Business Small Business |
| API | Location / Phone Number | San Francisco, CA / (855) 677-0011 | |
| Deployment | SaaS/Web/Cloud | Category | Automated Testing Software |
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Yes, Sauce Labs provides API.
What do you like best?
Sauce Labs gives me different real devices to test my web applications and that is what I like most. It has a very intuitive user interface, so anyone can carry out a test. Furthermore, parallel tests can be carried out, that is, the same case of purba in different devices. Also, I like that a tool for recording and playback is available.
What do you dislike?Honestly, I haven't had considerable inconveniences with Sauce Labs, in my opinion it has always worked correctly. In addition, its price is accessible and they offer a free trial.
Recommendations to others considering the product:A pleasant user interface, different platforms and good price. A solution for those who need to perform multiple tests at the same time.
What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?Sauce Labs provides me with different devices with different platforms to perform multiple tests in my work environment. The biggest benefit is that it is not necessary to invest a large amount of money in hardware, but instead take advantage of the cloud services offered by this platform. Another benefit is that I can record the tests executed. It also integrates perfectly with Visual Studio Team Services, to automate the configuration.
What do you like best?
It has a variety of platforms and devices that we can choose from. The great thing is that SauceLabs support appium and mobile devices testing. We currently have some web product so testing the responsiveness is a must. And with Saucelabs, we have reduced the number and effort of manual testing by running the test on the cloud.
When it comes to a SAAS provider, saucelabs is one of the best in the business in term of customer support. They have an amazing staff who will answer your question almost immediately. On the other hand, their support forum is great. Sometimes I can just google or search in their forum and I will see the problem that's already there with an actual solution.
What do you dislike?I wish there is a mobile app for easier access. For sometimes we want to check the result immediately, we need to access the website on the phone browser. If there was a Saucelabs app like other out there, it would be a lot more convenient.
Recommendations to others considering the product:You can always ask for a trial, and there support is really fast, just send them an email and get it back within an hour.
What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?- Cross-browser testing
- Multi and cross platform testing (windows vs Mac vs Linux)
- Reduce the time of manual testing
- Can run test of different mobile devices at once
PROS & CONS
What are the best aspects of this product?
There are many things that I like about Sauce Labs, but what I like most is the ability to create clean vm for each test, and I am able to take the maintenance of vm out of my daily work. Also, I am able to create various OS and Browser combinations and those are very hard to do manually, so Sauce labs works great. I like the idea to install only one browser instead of installing multiple for running tests. I get my test results with videos and screenshots and everything I need is in one place. And last but not least, the customer support team is excellent, always helpful and responsive, they have helped me with every issue I have faced.
What aspects are problematic or could work better?
Oh, I don’t like to use the word “dislike” about this product, because as I said before it works perfectly well. There are things I would like to see improved. When you run single test on Sauce they run fast, but the thing is if you have several in the same time, but, it’s not a big deal. I would like to run my automations (for mobile device) on real devices vs in simulators and emulators. If they could improve the performance and make a connection with real devices there won’t be a need to host own test environment anymore.
What specific problems in your company were solved by this product?
It helps me to create test environments quickly, and that’s a big thing from sauce. Also, the other benefit is having videos and screenshots for tests.
Are you a current user of this product?
Yes
PROS & CONS
What are the best aspects of this product?
Sauce Labs is smart app that allows me to tackle all testing challenges I have. It offers many testing platforms. I use this software because of the mindset on device, easy to set up, better communication with my account team, pricing and technology. Even though their device list is not as big as the list from other vendor, I don’t have to wait for each device to run on, I can do it whenever I want on the device I want. The other thing I like is that I don’t have to pay for accessing a device and concurrency.
What aspects are problematic or could work better?
I have seen that some of my tests are not completed, but I believe they will improve this one. Also, the troubleshooting doesn’t work as it should, I cannot check why some of my tests failed. I have found that the Real Device pool is somewhat limited. I would love to see some things expanded and improved.
What specific problems in your company were solved by this product?
We use Sauce so we can be sure that we can play the videos back across other real devices.
Are you a current user of this product?
Yes
What do you like best?
It has a variety of platforms and devices that we can choose from. The great thing is that SauceLabs support appium and mobile devices testing. We currently have some web product so testing the responsiveness is a must. And with Saucelabs, we have reduced the number and effort of manual testing by running the test on the cloud.
What do you dislike?I wish there is a mobile app for that for easier access. For sometimes we want to check the result immediately, we need to access the website on the phone browser. If there was a Saucelabs app like other out there, it would be a lot more convinient.
Recommendations to others considering the productYou can always ask for a trial, and there support is really fast, just send them an email and get it back within an hour.
What business problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?- Cross-browser testing
- Multi and cross platform testing (windows vs Mac vs Linux
- Reduce the time of manual testing
- Can run test of different mobile devices at once
What do you like best?
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.
What do you dislike?When you need to trial the application, the trial accounts are very limited, without all OS and browsers available in the professional plans.
Recommendations to others considering the productI 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.
What business problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?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.
What do you like best?
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.
What do you dislike?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.
Recommendations to others considering the productOf course!
What business problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?Cross Browser validation
Mobile App validation
Using Sauce labs just saves me time in the long run.
What do you like best?
Saucelabs is a powerful tool that allows users to test across different browsers/mobile devices, and always keeping up with the latest updates! If an iPhone get's released, you'll see it less than a week up on Saucelabs. Awesome tool.
What do you dislike?If you try to launch two different tests on different browsers, most likely an error will occur, and you must go back and try to restart the browser
What business problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?Testing across multiple browsers to uncover issues across different versions. IE has been our biggest issue, and by being able to test all the available IE versions, this makes it way easier to troubleshoot.
What do you like best?
Sauce labs provide a variety of browsers, OS, emulators, and simulators which can be used to test your application thoroughly. Reporting features and integration parts are really cool
What do you dislike?Environmental issues and downtimes
Recently sauce connect was down for several hours in a month, this affected our testing needs
What business problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?1. Continuous testing can be achieved using saucelabs
2. Parallel execution and faster execution compare to another cloud of browsers
What do you like best?
I like the fact that I don't have to maintain my own test infrastructure to get tests up and running. My time can be spent developing and executing instead of maintaining virtual machines.
What do you dislike?This is tough because I like pretty much everything about Sauce Labs. If I was forced to pick one thing, I would say I wish it was faster. With that said, it isn't a problem at the current speed. We just always want everything faster. Don't we?
What business problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?The business problems being solved is we don't have to waste automation, dev, IT or any other groups time maintaining a test environment of test servers and agents/nodes. Sauce Labs handles all that and for a fraction of what it would cost to hire someone in house to do.
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