Rainforest QA vs Sauce Labs

Overview

Sauce Labs

Stacks314

Followers435

Votes438

Rainforest QA

Stacks37

Followers68

Votes53

Rainforest QA vs Sauce Labs: What are the differences?

Rainforest QA: Front-end QA as a service. Rainforest gives you the reliability of a QA team and the speed of automation, without the hassle of managing a team or the pain of writing automated tests; Sauce Labs: Test mobile or web apps instantly across 700+ browser/OS/device platform combinations - without infrastructure setup. Cloud-based automated testing platform enables developers and QEs to perform functional, JavaScript unit, and manual tests with Selenium or Appium on web and mobile apps. Videos and screenshots for easy debugging. Secure and CI-ready.

Rainforest QA and Sauce Labs can be primarily classified as "Browser Testing" tools.

Some of the features offered by Rainforest QA are:

Infinitely Scalable, On-Demand QA Team
Cross Browser Testing
Regression, Functional, and Exploratory Testing

On the other hand, Sauce Labs provides the following key features:

700+ browser/OS/device combinations for cross-browser and platform testing to improve web and mobile app quality and eliminate the overhead of internal infrastructure
Highly reliable, on-demand cloud for enterprise-grade scalability and industry standard security
Optimized for popular testing frameworks, CI systems, and surrounding tools and services

"Cross-browser testing" is the top reason why over 12 developers like Rainforest QA, while over 54 developers mention "Selenium-compatible" as the leading cause for choosing Sauce Labs.

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Advice on Sauce Labs, Rainforest QA

Rinchin

Jul 20, 2020

Needs adviceon

Selenium

Sauce Labs

I am looking to purchase one of these tools for Mobile testing for my team. It should support Native, hybrid, and responsive app testing. It should also feature debugging, parallel execution, automation testing/easy integration with automation testing tools like Selenium, and the capability to provide availability of devices specifically for us to use at any time with good speed of performing all these activities.

I have already used Perfecto mobile, and Sauce Labs in my other projects before. I want to know how different or better is AWS Device farm in usage and how advantageous it would be for us to use it over other mentioned tools

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Sharada

Aug 5, 2021

Needs advice

Looking for some advice on which tool to use for mobile testing. We need the following requirements fulfilled: 1. Instant provisioning of real devices for testing with automated or manual scripts. 2. iOS and Android devices to be available to a large team (around 60). 3. Good performance of the devices.

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Detailed Comparison

Sauce Labs	Rainforest QA
Cloud-based automated testing platform enables developers and QEs to perform functional, JavaScript unit, and manual tests with Selenium or Appium on web and mobile apps. Videos and screenshots for easy debugging. Secure and CI-ready.	Rainforest gives you the reliability of a QA team and the speed of automation, without the hassle of managing a team or the pain of writing automated tests.
700+ browser/OS/device combinations for cross-browser and platform testing to improve web and mobile app quality and eliminate the overhead of internal infrastructure; Highly reliable, on-demand cloud for enterprise-grade scalability and industry standard security; Optimized for popular testing frameworks, CI systems, and surrounding tools and services; Works with Selenium and Appium based on industry standard Selenium WebDriver protocol. Compatible with existing tests in any popular language and testing framework; Identify test failures quickly with debugging tools like screenshots, video recordings, and detailed logs	Infinitely Scalable, On-Demand QA Team; Cross Browser Testing; Regression, Functional, and Exploratory Testing; Super Fast Results; Test results direct to your Inbox; Support Powered by Engineers; Integrates with your Chat and Bug trackers; Works with Continuous Deployment
Statistics
Stacks 314	Stacks 37
Followers 435	Followers 68
Votes 438	Votes 53
Pros & Cons
Pros 60 Selenium-compatible 46 Webdriver compatible 35 Video recordings of every test 31 Qa 29 Mobile support Cons 2 Relatively slow 2 Expensive	Pros 13 Cross-browser testing 7 Powerful API 7 Super-simple test creation 7 QA 6 Easy way to get real front-end smoke tests
Integrations
CircleCI Travis CI Appium Jenkins Selenium Visual Studio AWS Cloud9 TeamCity Applitools Bamboo	Slack Codeship Pivotal Tracker HipChat CircleCI Jira

What are some alternatives to Sauce Labs, Rainforest QA?

BrowserStack

BrowserStack is the leading test platform built for developers & QAs to expand test coverage, scale & optimize testing with cross-browser, real device cloud, accessibility, visual testing, test management, and test observability.

Selenium

Selenium automates browsers. That's it! What you do with that power is entirely up to you. Primarily, it is for automating web applications for testing purposes, but is certainly not limited to just that. Boring web-based administration tasks can (and should!) also be automated as well.

LambdaTest

LambdaTest platform provides secure, scalable and insightful test orchestration for website, and mobile app testing. Customers at different points in their DevOps lifecycle can leverage Automation and/or Manual testing on LambdaTest.

Karma

Karma is not a testing framework, nor an assertion library. Karma just launches a HTTP server, and generates the test runner HTML file you probably already know from your favourite testing framework. So for testing purposes you can use pretty much anything you like.

Playwright

It is a Node library to automate the Chromium, WebKit and Firefox browsers with a single API. It enables cross-browser web automation that is ever-green, capable, reliable and fast.

WebdriverIO

WebdriverIO lets you control a browser or a mobile application with just a few lines of code. Your test code will look simple, concise and easy to read.

TestingBot

TestingBot provides automated and Manual cross browser testing in the cloud. Make sure your website looks ok in all browsers.

Ghost Inspector

It lets you create and manage UI tests that check specific functionality in your website or application. We execute these automated browser tests continuously from the cloud and alert you if anything breaks.

Selenide

It is a library for writing concise, readable, boilerplate-free tests in Java using Selenium WebDriver.

Autify

It is a software testing automation platform powered by AI. Autify helps in creating the Quality Assurance team to deliver the best version of their product in record time.

Related Comparisons

Some of the features offered by Rainforest QA are:

Infinitely Scalable, On-Demand QA Team
Cross Browser Testing
Regression, Functional, and Exploratory Testing

On the other hand, Sauce Labs provides the following key features:

700+ browser/OS/device combinations for cross-browser and platform testing to improve web and mobile app quality and eliminate the overhead of internal infrastructure
Highly reliable, on-demand cloud for enterprise-grade scalability and industry standard security
Optimized for popular testing frameworks, CI systems, and surrounding tools and services

"Cross-browser testing" is the top reason why over 12 developers like Rainforest QA, while over 54 developers mention "Selenium-compatible" as the leading cause for choosing Sauce Labs.

Rainforest QA vs Sauce Labs