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Sauce Labs pros and cons

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_user663543 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Performance Test Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
May 11, 2017
The most valuable feature is the ability to easily test multiple browsers and versions, as well as off-loading our local environments using the SauceCloud.
it_user661047 - PeerSpot reviewer
Test Engineer II at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
May 11, 2017
I find that the multitude of browser and OS versions are very helpful for broadening testing scope.
it_user702426 - PeerSpot reviewer
Snr Recruiter at a tech company with 51-200 employees
Jul 13, 2017
Allows us to do JIRA Cloud and BambooHR Integration.
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it_user738285 - PeerSpot reviewer
-- at a tech company with 51-200 employees
Sep 17, 2017
Testing my app on cloud has really helped us with save time and resources to procure various hardware and software, and set those up.
it_user740730 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works at a insurance company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Sep 20, 2017
The abundance of device, platform, and browser combinations/versions that can be used in parallel.
it_user748629 - PeerSpot reviewer
Test Engineer at a media company with 501-1,000 employees
Oct 15, 2017
It runs on the cloud, so you don't have physical setups to run all of this.
it_user762057 - PeerSpot reviewer
Health Systems QA Automation Engineer (SDET) at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
Oct 25, 2017
Running tests in parallel.
it_user770031 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Development Engineer at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
Nov 8, 2017
It provides zero maintenance browser instances.
it_user783597 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer at a marketing services firm with 51-200 employees
Dec 4, 2017
Testing across multiple devices and environments is now possible to do quickly and effectively.
it_user821070 - PeerSpot reviewer
MTS at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Feb 16, 2018
It helped to integrate our performance testing and UAT, which helped to deliver a bug free software for our customers.
 

Sauce Labs Cons review quotes

it_user663543 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Performance Test Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
May 11, 2017
Running tests in the SauceCloud can take longer than running in a local environment.
it_user661047 - PeerSpot reviewer
Test Engineer II at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
May 11, 2017
We encountered minor issues with stability from time to time but Sauce Labs continues to make improvements.
it_user702426 - PeerSpot reviewer
Snr Recruiter at a tech company with 51-200 employees
Jul 13, 2017
I would like to see improved network connectivity and it should allow playback for native apps.
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it_user738285 - PeerSpot reviewer
-- at a tech company with 51-200 employees
Sep 17, 2017
Better and programmatic controls on request/response recordings and sharing with developers.
it_user740730 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works at a insurance company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Sep 20, 2017
Unable to segregate reports for tests that are currently being developed, and might not be returning useful results.
it_user748629 - PeerSpot reviewer
Test Engineer at a media company with 501-1,000 employees
Oct 15, 2017
Start execution time as each time a set of tests start, it will launch a new VM so it takes a bit of time.
it_user762057 - PeerSpot reviewer
Health Systems QA Automation Engineer (SDET) at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
Oct 25, 2017
Speeds up the time it takes to run end-to-end user interface (UI) tests inside their virtual machines (VMs).
it_user770031 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Development Engineer at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
Nov 8, 2017
It should provide more examples of script code.
it_user783597 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer at a marketing services firm with 51-200 employees
Dec 4, 2017
Sometimes pasting text while using "text object" does not seem to work, and it slows down testing times quite a bit.
it_user821070 - PeerSpot reviewer
MTS at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Feb 16, 2018
Sauce Labs needs to be improved in the different platforms for farm testing, like iOS and Android farm testing and farm testing web browsers.​