We performed a comparison between LambdaTest and Sauce Labs based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Sauce Labs is the winner in this comparison. It is reliable, scalable, robust, and has excellent management features. In addition, Sauce Labs users report a significant ROI. LambdaTest does come out on top in the pricing category, however.
"Stability-wise, I have not experienced any downtime or other performance issues."
"This product offers out-of-the-box geolocation testing in automation, which is amazing!"
"The real devices feature is the most valuable feature for us."
"Our test execution time was reduced to 16 mins from five hours when executed in parallel on multiple VMs. This has been extremely helpful!"
"LambdaTest offers geolocation testing in automation, which is amazing!"
"The support docs are precise and you can get started with them easily."
"The Docker tunnel integration for local testing can be extremely useful to run on multiple instances in parallel."
"The most valuable feature is the real-time testing, which helps you to test your website on more than two thousand combinations of browsers and operating systems."
"With only a few clicks, it gives us the availability to use any browser and OS combination whenever we want."
"I have found the live test section with Sauce Labs to be extremely valuable. When you can't quite figure out why a test is failing, you can go to the live test results section within their tool and launch your test (specifying a given OS/browser, or device) manually and step through the test to see the issue more clearly, usually opening up the developer's tool console and watching the network calls and console (within Chrome) to usually find the underlying issue."
"The most critical thing is that this software aligns with our Agile and DevOps way of doing things. It integrates with kickoff scripts through DevOps."
"It runs on the cloud, so you don't have physical setups to run all of this."
"From an infrastructure support perspective, the number of VMs, browsers installations and versions that we would be maintaining without Sauce Labs would be a lot. This includes not only the infrastructure costs, but also the maintenance costs and people's time. The labor cost associated with maintaining all of that would be considerably high. In terms of efficiency, having concurrent VMs with various browser combinations available has allowed us to run multiple executions by all our teams."
"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."
"They offer a large number of devices and browser/operating system combinations for real device tests"
"The most valuable feature is the cross-browser feature, it has many android and iOS devices both simulators and real devices. It's easy to integrate. I also like video recording too."
"Performing automation testing from UI is a little slow and could be improved."
"Their smart testing module needs improvement."
"It would be nice to have an API for visual regression testing."
"It would be much easier for us to read the test if they provided dashboard analytics."
"I think Lambdatest is a valuable tool for our team and things that have room for improvement would be mobile app testing, as it can be an important addition to the tool."
"Responsive testing UI is a bit cluttered, whereas the LT browser is much better to use."
"I would like to see all of the features available in the freemium plan so that I can test them."
"The analytics over the automation dashboard can be more intuitive."
"The real concern is the load time of applications or real devices when we start our tests. It takes some time to load the application or web browser. Sometimes, it is frustrating too. Since they are real devices, we understand it takes some time to load. However, if it were to improve, then that would be a great asset to the solution. So, we would like better responsive times when opening applications and running tests."
"As a web product QA team, we sometimes need to spot check some new child site on multiple browsers and OS(es). It was a little time consuming for us since we need to click on each of the browser/OS combinations and start a new session to test. Every sprint, with new features and child pages being added, we mostly need to do the same steps over and over again."
"They should provide a JIRA integration plugin so that we can easily log issues."
"Unable to segregate reports for tests that are currently being developed, and might not be returning useful results."
"I can't remove team members that have left the organization. I can only set them as inactive. It would be really nice to clean up my data and delete them from the team management."
"Lacks the ability to start multiple tests simultaneously."
"It should provide more examples of script code."
"The only drawback is the speed, it will be good if we have a server in Asia too. It will be great if we can improve speed while initialization and execution."
LambdaTest is ranked 14th in Functional Testing Tools with 19 reviews while Sauce Labs is ranked 11th in Functional Testing Tools with 113 reviews. LambdaTest is rated 9.0, while Sauce Labs is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of LambdaTest writes "Cost-effective, good integration, and parallel testing leads to good performance". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sauce Labs writes "Robust documentation, helpful support representative, good licensing model". LambdaTest is most compared with BrowserStack, Katalon Studio, Tricentis Tosca, Perfecto and Bitbar, whereas Sauce Labs is most compared with BrowserStack, Perfecto, OpenText UFT One, Bitbar and Katalon Studio.
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