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Sauce Labs is an automated testing solution that helps businesses test multiple virtual machines across various browsers and device combinations. The platform enables managers to pair the solution with continuous integration (CI) system to test native and mobile web applications during development cycles.

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Devops/QA

Cons is the web interface can be clunky at times. Not because of a bad design but is the connection has any issues it can get frustrating.

Automation Engineer

What sealed the deal for me personally, is the dedication to providing free, unlimited access to their services for open sourced projects at a level that's actually worth while.

Engineer

Perfect solution those who are busy with multiple executions and they don't need to stick into one execution. We can simply review our executions later when I'm free.

Intermittent connection the the browser loss issue (once upon 200 tests).

QA Specialist

It has many Platforms (OS, Browsers, devices, etc) , we save a lot of money thanks to that.

Sr. QA Automation Engineer

A great tool for multi browser testing and Mobile testing.

Testing Manager

We use it for manual testing all of our websites, instead of buying hundreds of different devices. You can choose browser/OS combinations that are obsolete but perhaps your company still uses it.

QA Analyst

Sometimes their service goes down, naturally, so tests will fail. But aside from that, not much cons to report.

A great tool to test through different Browsers/OS versions, and mobile testing through multiple mobile make/model/versions

A great tool to test through different Browsers/OS versions

SauceLabs for automated and manual testing

Overall it fits the bill if you don't want to spend the money purchasing devices in the categories you need to check.

A little jittery but worth while for cross platform performance testing

Automated testing following the CI/CD pipeline and integration strategies for web automation

Extremely useful tool for testing purposes. Definitely recommended.

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Good in certain Circumstances

'Sauce Labs' helped to reduce my unnecessary working effort and cost.

Don't worry about buying new devices. Sauce Labs will saves your money and time. 

Great way to have multiple computers for testing os without managing them myself.

It saves my money and time a lot. Great software ! Great Sauce Labs ! 

Hooray ! Sause Labs gave me 100 of real devices with different aspects to complete my testings. 

Excellent product for cross-platform automated testing

An affordable cloud-based application testing service.

Great tool for cross-platform testing

I used it working in many companies running automated test cases with selenium, jbehave, etc

One of best cross browsing testing software

We started to use sauce for manual validation of mobile friendly sites. We have since added automated testing through Selenium and it has saved us time testing new and existing applications.

A great way to run tests on many configurations

Sauce has been extremely valuable to our organization, it has allowed us to test on more devices, quicker.  Documentation is great and support is responsive. Everytime I have had a request the saucelabs team has implemented the change.  

Sause Labs

I went from a local setup running my tests to completely in the cloud with such ease.  Sauce Labs makes it very easy to run your existing tests with their services.

We've been using sauce for months, and can't find another tool that provides as much value. We use it to parallelize our test runs on web, iOS and Android, and have seen a huge reduction in our testing cycles.


Sauce is Great

SLs is a staple for our legal company while testing. We use it for manual testing all of our websites, instead of buying hundreds of different devices. You can choose browser/OS combinations that are obsolete but perhaps your company still uses it. It's great that I know I can rely on them having the latest combinations soon after the release of an environment.
The con to SL is that it doesn't have horizontal viewing of mobile devices. Our company did have to invest in a tablet and mobile device because we needed to view the horizontal screen.

Manual Testing Asset

With only a few months of service under our teams belt, it has been nothing but excellent. We joined during the web interface transition and it is a more enjoyable experience. Once tapped into their API our testing suites contain reliable information we can validate across the platform, switching between Sauce results and our own. This obviously makes troubleshooting much less daunting. Their documentation system is much improved. We rely on their services for mobile iOS and web testing across several projects.

The only caveat to mention, is the availability of the next release of iOS on their systems. Their adoption is a bit slow. I understand Sauce is making an effort to enhance their current infrastructure to make updating to the latest iOS release easier in the future.

What sealed the deal for me personally, is the dedication to providing free, unlimited access to their services for open sourced projects at a level that's actually worth while.

With the rebranding and a focus on providing physical device testing, Sauce seems capable of being a top service provider now and into the future.

Reliable mobile iOS testing provider with a focus on quality

I used to manage a fleet (30+) of VM's to run my automated tests against.  Since moving to Sauce Labs, and letting them manage the VM's, life has been so much better!  It's more reliable and easier to use, compared to managing your own VM's.  I've had literally no issues with running tests in Sauce Labs and I've been using it for years!

They also recently just added Jira integration, which saves time creating a Jira ticket right off the failed Sauce Labs test.  Nice integration to save me a bit of time.

Great product... no self-management of VM's!

This is a good solution to scale your tests to multiple platforms. Cloud services such as SauceLabs allow you to save money and time you could spend for purchasing hardware, configuring it for running tests and maintenance. If you have test for one browser type, scaling it to different browsers types is easy (as all of SauceLabs browsers are driven via single WebDriver API). However, small updates in test code might be necessary due to browser specifics. SauceLabs pricing may look high, however, it is comparable to competitors' pricing. When thinking of cloud service provider you may compare them vs BrowserStack. For some usage plans (especially for small team) you may find cheaper options.

Pros :
    Major browsers on major desktop and mobile platforms supported for both manual and automated tests execution.
    Parallel test execution.
    Manual access to the VM in the cloud (e.g., you can pause your test and drive the app in browser view).
    Managing test run and VMs via REST. Ready java-library available.
    Ability to record screenshots and video of running tests as well as commands log.
    Easy accessibility via WebDriver API.
    Environment spin up time

    Cons :
        Very slow support. They keep asking irrelevant questions or don't reply for a few days until they get more or less useful reply. Support speed depends on your account level.
        Intermittent connection the the browser loss issue (once upon 200 tests).
        "Non-natural" environment. Some of browsers has additional configuration that makes them a bit different from ones that users have. Not critical in most of cases though.
        New features released pretty raw.
        You may get stuck if you'll need to use some of their more rarely used features (e.g. Sauce Connect) as Support is normally slower there and bugfixes come later.
        New mobile platforms support released with sufficient delay (e.g. Android 6 released in summer 2015 was still not available at the moment of this review: April 2016).

Powerful solution with poor support

Great! I loved being able to watch back the tests to see exactly where they failed.

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