We performed a comparison between Sauce Labs and Selenium HQ based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Tricentis, OpenText, Perforce and others in Functional Testing Tools."Testing across multiple devices and environments is now possible to do quickly and effectively."
"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."
"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."
"With only a few clicks, it gives us the availability to use any browser and OS combination whenever we want."
"It offers the single best solution for integrating deep automated browser testing in a CI/CD pipeline."
"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."
"Running tests in parallel."
"So far, the stability has proven to be quite good."
"The solution is free to use."
"The solution is very flexible; there are different ways of using it. It's open-source and has a lot of support on offer."
"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."
"Selenuim helps us during testing. We are able to reduce the number and frequency of manual efforts by using scripts."
"All the features in Selenium to automate the UI."
"The most valuable feature of Selenium HQ is the ability to create automatic tests that can replicate human behavior."
"The stability of the solution has been good, it is reliable we have not had any bugs."
"The most valuable features of Selenium HQ are it is open source and has multiple languages and browser support. It's very useful."
"The testing process is difficult. I need to prove the complete competency of the tool, and I am finding that challenging."
"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."
"Multi-domain SSO is a big concern for us right now, especially as we've been merged into a larger company. I suddenly have teams coming from 20 different domains, and because the main master Sauce Labs account is locked down to one SSO domain, there are teams that can't run a test right now. I've heard they're working on a solution and they've been very communicative with us about it. A solution to that would help us a lot."
"Every time that we run scenarios where we need to discover the geolocation of our customers, by default it shows as Palo Alto, California. That's a problem for us and we need a workaround for those cases... It would be helpful if we could enter a latitude and longitude into Sauce Labs configuration and say, "When you run a virtual Chrome device or an iPhone, make this your default location. Then, provide me that device so I can run my scenarios," because we have stores in different regions across the United States."
"The ability to configure the memory and CPU for the test machines should be included."
"The one issue I have is the 14-day trial that a new user gets for free. I understand the concept of the trial period; however, I think this could be revamped to a free 30-minute run time every few months or after a significant update once the trial period has ended."
"The ability to install profiles on iOS real mobile devices should be included."
"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."
"It would be better to have a simplified way to locate and identify web elements."
"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 should be standardized frameworks to build automation."
"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."
"We use X path for our selectors, and sometimes, it is difficult to create locators for elements. It is very time-consuming because they're embedded deeply. A lot of that comes from the way that you architect your page. If devs are putting the IDs on their elements, it is great, and it allows you to get those elements super fast, but that's not necessarily the case. So, Selenium should be able to get your elements a lot quicker. Currently, it is time-consuming to get your selectors, locate your locators, and get to the elements."
"It would be better if we could use it without having the technical skills to run the scripting test."
"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."
"It would be awesome if there was a standalone implementation of Selenium for non-developer users."
Sauce Labs is ranked 11th in Functional Testing Tools with 112 reviews while Selenium HQ is ranked 4th in Functional Testing Tools with 102 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 "Continuously being developed and large community makes it easy to find solutions". Sauce Labs is most compared with BrowserStack, Perfecto, LambdaTest, OpenText UFT One and Applitools, whereas Selenium HQ is most compared with Eggplant Test, Tricentis Tosca, Worksoft Certify, Telerik Test Studio and OpenText Silk Test.
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