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."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 provides zero maintenance browser instances."
"It offers the single best solution for integrating deep automated browser testing in a CI/CD pipeline."
"Testing subscription videos for on-demand software, making them better quality and bug free for our customers."
"Our machines are mostly Windows. Being able to test with Safari, on a Mac, and other types of browser pieces without having to manage all the infrastructure is the biggest feature that our team enjoys."
"They update for the latest browsers and mobile phones and support a lot of combinations. They have 1,000-plus desktop combinations and browser versions, which is really great. We need that at Applause. The all-in-one testing suite aspect of it is really important because most of our clients prefer to go to one place."
"They offer a large number of devices and browser/operating system combinations for real device tests"
"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."
"I like that it is a robust and free open source. There is a lot of community support available, and there are a lot of developers using them. There's good community support."
"Has a good Workday application that enables us to handle some of the custom controls."
"The main characteristic that is useful is that the tool is completely free."
"There are many useful features in Selenium that I like, and of the new features I particularly enjoy the Selenium Grid. With this, we can run many test cases in one go, and in one suite we can extract multiple results."
"The most valuable features of Selenium HQ are it is open source and has multiple languages and browser support. It's very useful."
"The tool is easy to use and log in with respect to other tools. It is open-source. We can customize the product. I also like its security."
"For me, the most valuable feature of Selenium lies in its ability to help us find elements quickly. Apart from that, the driver interface is really useful, too. When we implement the Selenium driver interface, we can easily navigate through all of the pages and sections of an app, including performing things like clicking, putting through SendKeys, scrolling down, tagging, and all the other actions we need to test for in an application."
"The most valuable aspect of Selenium is that it gives you the flexibility to customize or write your own code, your own features, etc. It's not restricted by licensing."
"One of the challenging areas for us is the reporting and the matrix. It should be based on roles, but right now it is only available for the admin role. The admin role can really do a lot of stuff, but our infrastructure team, which holds the admin role, is not ready to hand it over to us on the testing team. If Sauce Labs had permissions associated with roles, where this role could do this activity and that role could do that activity, it would be easier for us."
"If I had to speak of an area that could be improved it would probably have to be the speed of interaction with the devices. There is at times a considerable amount of lag while using some of the virtual and at times even physical device farm"
"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."
"We have faced challenges with the availability of mobile devices. There was once or twice where there were no mobile devices available."
"Sauce Labs can include new technologies like generative AI capabilities."
"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."
"Lacks the ability to start multiple tests simultaneously."
"We have had some issues with the Sauce Connect Proxy on our Jenkins servers failing to start, which makes the optimal CI/CD pipeline come to a halt."
"I would like to see a library of bomb files with an automated process and integration with Jenkins and Slack."
"We'd like to see some more image management in future releases."
"There's no in-built reporting available."
"For now, I guess Selenium could add some other features like object communications for easy expansion."
"It does require a programming skill set. I would like the product not to require a heavy programming skill set and be more user-friendly for someone without a programming background."
"There are some tiny issues with SeleniumHQ. For example, with respect to the scraping tests. Sometimes, a website will have some hidden items or blockages that inhibit us from extracting data directly. It would be beneficial if Selenium could extract that information."
"You need to have experience in order to do the initial setup."
"Selenium has room for improvement as it does not support the tests and result-sharing in anything but a manual way."
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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