Sauce Labs Reviews

Been using Sauce Labs for a couple years now, and to say the least it's a lot better than managing my own farm of VM's.  Having the capability to run in parallel against various types of OS's/browsers/mobile-devices is great as well.  Looking forward to glancing at RDC (Real Device Cloud) and seeing if that provides a better solution as we run our mobile tests on slow emulators.

Sauce Labs, for the most part, has very little to no down time, so our tests are running in parallel all through out the day and night.  It's great to go back and view the videos of our browser tests to first see what is going on, and then search the log and output files provided to narrow down the issue even further.

I think their logging could be improved a bit, possibly to include the output that I see on my command line (print statements, etc.) which help pin-point the error (if one happens) more easily. 

Being able to test how my websites render on a very wide range of mobile devices. 

I am a novice web-designer really just producing for my own hypnotherapy business. However, Sauce Labs is incredibly easy to use and has enabled me to make some changes so that the sites are (almost) universal across the range of devices and versions.

A couple of hours

None

None

None

Recommendation from the web developer at British Airways.

Easy

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Loving it already

Cross-platform mobile testing. Before using Sauce Labs, I would have to setup a Selenium Grid cluster and install all versions of mobile simulators/emulators in order to test apps on different platforms. With the help of Sauce Labs, all I need to do is to configure the settings in my codes and let the tests run on the cloud. It saves me a lot of time and efforts.

For mobile testing, Sauce Labs platform is great for functional tests. But the option to run tests on real physical devices is missing right now, so it’s impossible to run performance stress tests which is also very important to test mobile apps. This feature is actually supported by some other mobile testing vendors like Appurify. Hopefully, Sauce Labs will add this feature soon.

Good. According to my experiences, the technical support engineers typically reply to emails within a day.

Straightforward. Just integrate the client libraries and setup processes into your existing automation framework. Detailed documents are available on Sauce Labs’ website and its Github report.

The client libraries are quite compatible with other popular testing frameworks. Chances are you can directly integrate it with your existing automation infrastructures, so the original setup cost is very low.

I find the API to integrate with my script runner invaluable. I can annotate jobs and get results to display in my CI server. For more complicated scripts, the secure tunnel is extremely useful when automating a 'private' application.

Running WebDriver scripts in house for a single, or few browser combinations is easy but once we started to scale up both in terms of browsers and parallel execution maintaining the grid became a pain so we offloaded it to Sauce. Now we have more combinations that we had before and don't have to worry about scaling our script execution ourselves.

Before starting to use Sauce, we used an internal Se Grid running on a mix of local machines and both local and cloud VMs. The upkeep needs to keep the machines patched and healthy became increasingly a burden -- especially with a run of bad luck with AWS saying that instances were being shut down due to 'performance degradation'. 

* Video Recording of Test Runs

* Snapshots

* Mobile Web, and Native Mobile Support

* Running Tests in Parallel 

* API to return test results and metadata 

Sauce labs is an easy to use hosted infrastructure for managing/launch all browser versions, mobile web browsers, and native mobile applications for seamless integration testing. I have used them at Bleacher Report while I was working as a QA Engineer for 2 years now and their has not been a tool that provided the same feature set and ease of use.

The fact that they contribute back to the open source community is also another great reason to use them. The tools they help deliver (like Appium) have helped our team scale while keeping our QA department very lean.

3 Years

What I like the most is the cloud running the automation test with the help of a number of devices. I like that we can use both Android and iOS devices for testing.

Manual testing is also so much easier with Sauce Labs. Running cross browser testing is the most useful functionality for me.

With Sauce Labs testing, manual plus automation is very easy. It reduces running test times.

Connectivity needs to increase.

Two years.

No issues.

No issues.

No issues.

Good.

Good.

No.

It was straightforward.

In-house.

Good.

It is a good purchase. The cost is also good.

No.

Use it, and enjoy testing with Sauce Labs.

Cross-browser testing.

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Video playback.

1 year

No, not at all.

No.

No.

10/10

Good.

No.

Straightforward.

In-house.

Very good.

Of course, yes.

not really

Nothing, all good.

Vastly improved speed and reliability. Support is also excellent

Has freed up huge amounts of time managing integrations. We have been able to move to a two-week sprint schedule, which had been bottlenecked by manual QA.

The way the owner/user/sub-user hierarchy is set up can be confusing. It would also be nice to have more control over who can see what tests.

One and a half years.

No.

No.

Early on we had some difficulity with parallelizing large runs, but they were resolved.

Excellent!

Exceptional!

No

It was quite straightforward. All we did was integrate Sauce's sample scripts into our base test and then modify, once we got the hang of it.

In-house.

High.

Start with what you need and scale up.

Yes, Testbot and BrowserStack.

The effort you'll save not maintaining a grid makes Sauce worth it, even without any of its other features