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.
"LambdaTest offers geolocation testing in automation, which is amazing!"
"We use the solution for automation testing and monitoring."
"Without a doubt, LambdaTest is one of the big reasons behind our faster deployment and better team collaboration."
"The slow nature of a cloud platform was compensated with parallel testing, and now we are able to finish our testing job faster than it was before COVID."
"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."
"In case something goes wrong at LambdaTest end, the Support team is extremely responsive to analyze any platform-related issues."
"The Docker tunnel integration for local testing can be extremely useful to run on multiple instances in parallel."
"Easy to integrate with the other platform for tracking purposes."
"Testing subscription videos for on-demand software, making them better quality and bug free for our customers."
"The abundance of device, platform, and browser combinations/versions that can be used in parallel."
"The solution they provide is very robust. We can quickly connect to their environment with the hub URL. They have a URL that has the entire grid of desktops, web browsers, and mobile devices. They also provide real devices, so you just provide the URL and test your application."
"I like the dashboard and seeing the test results. As a manager, I like to see the insights of the people using it, understanding the total path and run. I can see all of that as a manager. I also know team members love seeing the dashboard and seeing the test results in real-time."
"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."
"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."
"Sauce Labs helps us identify the root causes of bugs. The solution offers a lot of flexibility by providing the latest iOS and Android emulator versions, and even the Appium updates when it comes out in the market."
"Improvements on a platform need to happen on a timely basis...There should be some new features coming up or some performance improvisation over a period of time."
"If possible to simulate the finger pinch, it would make it more realistic."
"The scalability is good with Amazon, but IBM had some issues."
"I've also had some issues with the speed of certain API calls and the rendering of data. For example, when I'm onboarding data, the process can be slow."
"Responsive testing UI is a bit cluttered, whereas the LT browser is much better to use."
"The analytics over the automation dashboard can be more intuitive."
"Their smart testing module needs improvement."
"LambdaTest needs to have native application testing, which would be a great help to my team."
"Latency, due to Sauce Labs being a cloud-based solution, has been a concern. We work in different continents and countries, but last time I checked, Sauce Labs was only offering two data centers, one in the EU and another in the US. If you're not in either of those two places, you would have latency and issues running your test cases."
"Lacks the ability to start multiple tests simultaneously."
"Start execution time as each time a set of tests start, it will launch a new VM so it takes a bit of time."
"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."
"Progress towards reducing application testing time can be made."
"Another feature that could still be improved on is more error clarity. Sometimes when running automated scripts the test will fail on the device side instead of the script and errors only show a 500 try again message instead of a detailed script that could of a been a timeout error from the code."
"Sauce Labs' dashboard could be improved by adding more filters and allowing more customization options. There was one instance where the dashboard on the Sauce Labs UI didn't meet our requirements, so we had to use the Sauce Labs API to create some apps and dashboards on our own. The API endpoints could be a little more robust and customizable."
"With the desktop browser, we can inspect any screen with the web developer option, but they should provide something for mobiles so that we can quickly inspect elements on the device. To write the Selenium scripts, we require web locators. We have to capture them from the local and execute the script on Sauce Labs. If Sauce Labs can provide a solution where we can inspect any of the mobile devices online, it will be very helpful for us."
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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