We performed a comparison between Sauce Labs and Selenium HQ based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Functional Testing Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."As stated earlier we use Sauce Labs for a combination of automated testing and manual testing. Therefore the most useful features are the ability to run the functional automated tests via a Sauce Labs tunnels which allows access to applications in our internal network. The second most useful feature is the manual side."
"Sauce Labs' dashboards contain multiple useful metrics in one place. Everything is represented to us visually on the dashboard, which helps us understand where to focus our attention, what the issues are, and what we need to resolve."
"It offers the single best solution for integrating deep automated browser testing in a CI/CD pipeline."
"It helped to integrate our performance testing and UAT, which helped to deliver a bug free software for our customers."
"Testing subscription videos for on-demand software, making them better quality and bug free for our customers."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to run concurrent automated tests up to a specified value, depending on what we are currently paying for."
"Maintaining many environments for test is a bear. These guys make it so easy with their CI integration that you can have tests going in after a few hours."
"I never faced any issues with the stability."
"It's easy for new people to get trained on this solution. If we are hiring new people, the resource pool in the market in test automation is largely around Selenium."
"Data parametrization and parallelization are the most important features in any automation tool."
"The most valuable features are ExpectedConditions, actions, assertions, verifications, flexible rates, and third-party integrations."
"The solution is free to use."
"The most valuable feature of Selenium is how easy it is to automate."
"The ability to present your tests on a wiki page and hooking them up to the scripts/fixtures."
"It supports most of the actions that a user would do on a website."
"The most valuable feature of Selenium HQ is the ability to configure a lot of automated processes."
"User account management needs an overhauls, allowing for user groups rather than just a hierarchy structure."
"An image comparison would be a nice feature to include in the Sauce Labs product."
"Lacks the ability to start multiple tests simultaneously."
"I would like for there to be more detail in regards to the quality of our code i.e. how many failures occurred, how many passed based on industry standard metrics, etc."
"We had some specific features that we opened tickets on, although they were not earth-shattering. For example, the way the menus scroll could be improved because it does not have a bar, the way that people are used to, where you can move up and down."
"When we were in development, it was a bit of a pain because we have onshore and offshore development. One of our development shops is in India, and we were running tests over there. When some of the users tried to log in, it was slow for them or we didn't have enough licenses. That was during the core development before we even launched."
"Running tests in the SauceCloud can take longer than running in a local environment."
"The ability to configure the memory and CPU for the test machines should be included."
"I would like to see some reporting or test management tools."
"For now, I guess Selenium could add some other features like object communications for easy expansion."
"I have found that at times the tool does not catch the class features of website content correctly. The product's AWS configuration is also hard."
"I continuously see failures in threads when it is running in parallel."
"The drawback is the solution is not easy to learn."
"The initial setup was difficult."
"Selenium HQ doesn't support Windows-based applications, so we need to integrate with the third-party vendor. It would be great if Selenium could include Windows-based automation. You need to integrate it with a third-party tool if you want to upload any files. When we interact with a Windows application, we usually use Tosca."
"The latest versions are often unstable."
Sauce Labs is ranked 11th in Functional Testing Tools with 113 reviews while Selenium HQ is ranked 5th in Functional Testing Tools with 103 reviews. Sauce Labs is rated 8.8, while Selenium HQ is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Sauce Labs writes "Robust documentation, helpful support representative, good licensing model". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Selenium HQ writes "Easy to use with great pricing and lots of documentation". Sauce Labs is most compared with BrowserStack, Perfecto, LambdaTest, Bitbar and Eggplant Test, whereas Selenium HQ is most compared with Eggplant Test, Tricentis Tosca, Worksoft Certify, Telerik Test Studio and Automation Anywhere (AA). See our Sauce Labs vs. Selenium HQ report.
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