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Vendor: Sauce Labs
4.4 out of 5

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PROS

Sauce Labs provides extensive cross-browser and cross-platform testing capabilities without the need for physical setups, enabling users to test across a wide range of devices and environments efficiently.
Integration with various CI/CD platforms and developer tools allows seamless automated testing processes, helping teams enhance their testing strategies.
The availability of a multitude of browser and OS combinations in parallel helps broaden the testing scope and identify performance issues early.
Sauce Labs assists in managing testing resources remotely, which is beneficial for teams operating in distributed or remote work environments.
Its Failure Analysis feature is vital for diagnosing root causes of test failures, leading to improved testing accuracy.

CONS

Running tests in SauceCloud can take longer than in a local environment and sometimes experience stability issues.
Initializing and executing tests can be slower due to VM start-up times, potentially hindering productivity.
Limited network connectivity and inconsistencies in automated testing results can affect user experience.
Latency and licensing issues, particularly in regions outside EU and US, can slow down the testing process.
The pricing model is inflexible, making it challenging for smaller organizations to access a variety of testing devices.
 

Sauce Labs Pros review quotes

it_user180798 - PeerSpot reviewer
QA Manager at a tech company with 501-1,000 employees
Jan 12, 2015
Customer Service: Sauce support has been very helpful -- always friendly, pretty prompt, and thorough, too -- even when it's not always a direct problem with their service or our usage of it.
it_user207462 - PeerSpot reviewer
Quality Engineering Intern at a tech company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Mar 12, 2015
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.
it_user208599 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Development Engineer at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
Mar 19, 2015
The combination of OS platforms, platform versions, browsers and browser versions support on VMs.
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it_user275085 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Test Lead at a tech company with 10,001+ employees
Jul 18, 2015
Sauce Labs has pretty amazing capabilities of providing huge combinations of OS-platforms and emulators and my objective was achieved.
it_user279015 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior QA Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Jul 27, 2015
Availability - Always ON Scalability - Run all tests in parallel Full Report - With logs, videos, and screenshots Easy connect and start up.
it_user282672 - PeerSpot reviewer
QA Engineer at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees
Aug 4, 2015
Now I get results 100 times faster with a wider range of platforms and different browser versions used.
it_user285555 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Developer Trainee at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Aug 4, 2015
The temporary storage they are giving is just awesome.
it_user330165 - PeerSpot reviewer
Online Websites Advertising at a marketing services firm with 51-200 employees
Oct 18, 2015
Free and unlimited access to a variety of browsers to test your website in a real environment, not just simulating behavior.
it_user333345 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Software Testing Analyst II at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Oct 27, 2015
This service allowed me to get tests running within an hour of signing up!
it_user347682 - PeerSpot reviewer
Quality Assurance at a educational organization with 51-200 employees
Nov 29, 2015
The configuration and options within Sauce Labs are endless, which makes it an excellent product.
 

Sauce Labs Cons review quotes

it_user180798 - PeerSpot reviewer
QA Manager at a tech company with 501-1,000 employees
Jan 12, 2015
At various times, there are high-latency launches, or outright timeouts, but the Sauce Ops team has been pretty good about both 1) acknowledging the issue/investigation 2) working steadily to resolve it.
it_user207462 - PeerSpot reviewer
Quality Engineering Intern at a tech company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Mar 12, 2015
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.
it_user208599 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Development Engineer at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
Mar 19, 2015
Yes, the parallelization is not possible now when cucumber and junit are used together.
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it_user275085 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Test Lead at a tech company with 10,001+ employees
Jul 18, 2015
Links are not present very easily. One has to search for them.
it_user279015 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior QA Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Jul 27, 2015
Agility Faster results
it_user282672 - PeerSpot reviewer
QA Engineer at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees
Aug 4, 2015
I think it should be a longer trial period with more parallel tests available.
it_user285555 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Developer Trainee at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Aug 4, 2015
The 7-days scheme should be removed.
it_user330165 - PeerSpot reviewer
Online Websites Advertising at a marketing services firm with 51-200 employees
Oct 18, 2015
I only tried the free trial so far, so not a lot to say about the cons.
it_user333345 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Software Testing Analyst II at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Oct 27, 2015
Getting accurate pass/fail results when running TestNG scripts in parallel by class is a challenge but after some work we figured out a solution.
it_user347682 - PeerSpot reviewer
Quality Assurance at a educational organization with 51-200 employees
Nov 29, 2015
The main interface, although clean, is sometimes very slow to load on slower connections and selecting a machine and waiting for it to boot up the environment takes a lot longer than other products I have used.