We recently went through consolidation to get rid of BrowserStack, Kobiton, and SeeTest. We chose Sauce Labs over the other vendors and consolidated to one.

With Sauce Labs, we did a full pilot before selecting it. The selling point and the reason that we ultimately chose this product is because we had our own service account representative that helped us to be successful.

The features met our needs, which was the other evaluation point against the other software providers. They had both browser and mobile solutions, and it's easier to work with one vendor versus four. 

I am a solution architect working on multiple lines of business. When our teams present a problem to me, I have to look at it from an architectural, and a technical standpoint then figure out which tool to use. We looked at a wide variety of solutions, and I presented Sauce Labs as an option and a few others. In the end, we decided to go with Sauce Labs for two out of three of our lines of business simply because of ease of use and some of the feature sets they had.

We considered Selenium, but it was too difficult to work with. Using Selenium for compatibility testing would require a great deal of effort to streamline Selenium for the other testers that we planned to bring on board. We are still using Selenium but in a different capacity.

We opted for Sauce Labs for two of our lines of business, but I can't recall the solution we chose for the third one. I'm not on that team. They strictly work on mobile app testing. They decided not to go with Sauce Labs because they're dealing with iOS and Android support, and they didn't feel it was strong enough for them. 

The fact that Sauce Labs was co-founded by the creator of Selenium and was an early mover in cross-browser testing was a big part of their marketing and sales pitch. However, it wasn't a critical factor in our decision. When we had some meetings and demos, they talked a lot about TestNG and some of the others, but we're not making use of that. 

That really didn't come into it. We were more concerned with aspects like ease of use and stability. It was also crucial that Sauce Labs is a market leader currently deployed at other companies with a much higher volume than us. All that came into play.

When we switched over to Sauce Labs, we didn't really look too deeply at other cloud service providers. There were two or three others, but we never engaged with them or talked to them because we saw pretty early on that they weren't exactly right for us. We saw that Sauce Labs fit the bill.

The main differences between Sauce Labs and the others were the number of devices available to us and the user interface. Sauce Labs has a really nice interface. And the overall impression we got from Sauce Labs was that they're very up to date and that they keep up to date all the time. They don't fall behind. They always have new features coming out.

There were a couple of recommendations from different clients, which included LambdaTest and AWS Device Farm. We did PoC of those, and they were pretty much aligned with what Sauce Labs provides. The budgeting part was probably the main factor in decision-making, which is taken care of by our onsite manager.

Overall, Sauce Labs has a wide range of browsers and real devices. They also have a good knowledge center. It's a robust and scalable solution with ease of connecting. We have a Center of Excellence team in our company that did the research and found Sauce Labs to be the right solution to pick. It has been in the market for a long time, and we found it to be mature enough for our needs.

It was important for us to go with a cloud-based solution because the infrastructure that we have is limited. The range of devices, the versions, and the machines that we use wouldn't have been sufficient to run the scripts that we authored, so we moved to Sauce Labs.

We use other products for front-end testing but there's no significant reason we couldn't do it with Sauce Labs. It's not lacking in that solution. We use other tools mostly due to dev team mindset. They prefer something more local to their use and something they're familiar with. If we were to push the QA side to do performance testing through Sauce Labs, they'd be open to it. 

It's not only Sauce Labs, as a vendor, that offers automation, but there's BrowserStack and others that also offer it. But using Sauce Labs has been great.

I don't remember the names of the other solutions we evaluated, but we were going through resellers, and those resellers were using other companies. 

I have not compared it with other solutions.

There are a lot of other options on the market and I have tried some of them in the past. But Sauce Labs has a lot of advantages. For example, one feature that I really love is that when we are doing troubleshooting or have a problem with test cases, they answer every single question so quickly and are very helpful. The customer experience using Sauce Labs is great in terms of support. That is an aspect other companies don't really have.

I started with our company as an automation engineer and their support was able to help me with every single configuration, every single problem, and every single question. I cannot remember a single time that they were unable to help me. They are the best.

I didn't make the decision on Sauce Labs. It was recommended by some other team members that did the research. People were looking at, "Can it help us from a visual point of view? Can it add tests, see all the tests through portals in the cloud, and make testing go quickly?" It offered the possibility of being able to run on multiple browsers and operating systems as well as had integration with Selenium.

We looked at other options but found that Sauce Labs was the best option to support both Web and Mobile.

Prior to choosing Sauce Labs, the company evaluated BrowserStack. I was not part of the decision process but the differentiating factor may have been the support.

There are only two big companies in this field and since we were moving away from the other one, we obviously did not consider any other options.

Yes, I won't name them, but we looked at two other products of a similar nature.

No

I evaluated Perfecto Mobile and BrowserStack before testing out Sauce Labs and they did not compete well enough with Sauce Labs. Perfecto did have more devices available around the world than Sauce Labs but the connections were slow.

I'm unaware if my company has done so but I imagine they did and still chose Sauce Labs as the best option.

BrowserStack was also explored, but did not integrate with out intended CI/CD model as extensively or seamlessly as Sauce Labs was able to.

SmartBear, Perfecto, and Ranorex.

We did look (back in 2001) at other vendors, but found the business side and open-source/project relationships fit well with us.

I did. I looked at BrowserStack. Did not have video-playback, which is tremendous for finding bugs and code.

We didn't find anything that directly compared to Sauce Labs.

Sauce Labs was implemented as a solution before I joined the company so I'm unaware of what other tools, if any, were evaluated.

No, we used local machines by installing different versions of browsers and platforms. I am now trying to promote this idea of using Sauce Lab across my company moving forward.

No.

Keynote, but did not use because of pricing.

No

Traffic Travis

No.

Nope.

Yes, Testbot and BrowserStack.

No.

We also looked at Browser Stack.

We also evaluated AWS Device Farm.

No.

We did not evaluate other options. This solution was a straightforward choice for us.

not really

TestingBot

No.

No.

I made online research for a better emulators, and Sauce Labs was one of them. So many devices and OSs to choose from, with live remote sessions, we could see real results and real looks of websites across all platforms we needed to check.

No.

No.

No, we did not.

No.

No.

No.

No.

No.

None that I am aware of.

We evaluated different services, e.g., LambdaTest.

We evaluated LunaScape 6.

Nope. Cause it was a straightforward choice for us.

Yes, Stackdriver.

Yes, many. TestDroid, TestObject, Xamarin Test Cloud, AWS Device Farm, Perfecto Mobile, Keynote/Device Anywhere

Not really.