Sauce Labs vs WebdriverIO

Overview

Sauce Labs

Stacks314

Followers435

Votes438

WebdriverIO

Stacks426

Followers509

Votes40

GitHub Stars9.7K

Forks2.6K

Sauce Labs vs WebdriverIO: What are the differences?

Developers describe Sauce Labs as "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. On the other hand, WebdriverIO is detailed as "Webdriver/Selenium 2.0 JavaScript bindings for Node.js". 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.

Sauce Labs and WebdriverIO can be categorized as "Browser Testing" tools.

Some of the features offered by Sauce Labs are:

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

On the other hand, WebdriverIO provides the following key features:

Extendable
Support for the WebDriver specification as well as to Appium
Easy Test Setup

WebdriverIO is an open source tool with 5.04K GitHub stars and 1.44K GitHub forks. Here's a link to WebdriverIO's open source repository on GitHub.

According to the StackShare community, Sauce Labs has a broader approval, being mentioned in 66 company stacks & 11 developers stacks; compared to WebdriverIO, which is listed in 7 company stacks and 3 developer stacks.

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Advice on Sauce Labs, WebdriverIO

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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Esther

Feb 16, 2020

Needs adviceon

react-testing-library

Hi, I am starting out to test an application that is currently being developed - FE: React. BE: Node JS. I want the framework to be able to test all UI scenarios (from simple to complex) and also have the capability to test APIs. I also need to run tests across all OSs and Browsers (Windows, Mac, Android, iOS). I have also looked into react-testing-library and @TestProject.io. Any advice you can give as to which framework would be best and why would be so much appreciated! Thank you!!

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Shivam

Mar 5, 2020

Needs advice

we are having one web application developed in Reacts.js. in the application, we have only 4 to 5 pages that we need to test. I am having experience in selenium with java. Please suggets which tool I should use. and why ............................ ............................ .............................

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Detailed Comparison

Sauce Labs	WebdriverIO
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.	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.
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	Extendable; Support for the WebDriver specification as well as to Appium; Easy Test Setup; Run tests on desktop and mobile, Command line interface
Statistics
GitHub Stars -	GitHub Stars 9.7K
GitHub Forks -	GitHub Forks 2.6K
Stacks 314	Stacks 426
Followers 435	Followers 509
Votes 438	Votes 40
Pros & Cons
Pros 60 Selenium-compatible 46 Webdriver compatible 35 Video recordings of every test 31 Qa 29 Mobile support Cons 2 Expensive 2 Relatively slow	Pros 11 Various integrations to vendors like Sauce Labs 10 Open Source 8 Great community 7 Easy to setup 4 Best solution for broad browser support Cons 8 High maintenance
Integrations
CircleCI Travis CI Appium Jenkins Selenium Visual Studio AWS Cloud9 TeamCity Applitools Bamboo	Node.js Selenium

What are some alternatives to Sauce Labs, WebdriverIO?

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.

Rainforest QA

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.

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.