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BrowserStack vs Sauce Labs: What are the differences?
BrowserStack: Instant access to a lab of 1000+ real mobile and desktop browsers for testing. Live, Web-Based Browser Testing Instant access to all real mobile and desktop browsers. Say goodbye to your lab of devices and virtual machines; 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.
BrowserStack and Sauce Labs can be primarily classified as "Browser Testing" tools.
Some of the features offered by BrowserStack are:
- Real Device Cloud. Test on a range of physical Android and iOS mobile devices and tablets for the most accurate results
- 1100+ desktop browsers. Latest versions of IE, Edge, Safari, Chrome, Firefox and more on a range of Windows and OS X platforms on a robust cloud infrastructure
- Test dev environments. Our Local Testing feature allows you to test development and internal websites seamlessly, without setup or configuration
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
"Multiple browsers" is the primary reason why developers consider BrowserStack over the competitors, whereas "Selenium-compatible" was stated as the key factor in picking Sauce Labs.
According to the StackShare community, BrowserStack has a broader approval, being mentioned in 577 company stacks & 238 developers stacks; compared to Sauce Labs, which is listed in 66 company stacks and 11 developer stacks.
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
BrowserStackStability - Just works. Availability - More than 15 datacenters. Enterprise features like SSO, local testing and SOC2/GDPR compliant.
BitBarBitBar's Dedicated Devices would be a great option for you. It allows you to dedicate (reserve) devices for your use only which also having access to all of the devices in the shared cloud. BitBar has the features and integrations that you are looking for as well.
Pros of BrowserStack
- Multiple browsers131
- Ease of use71
- Real browsers59
- Ability to use it locally40
- Good price23
- Great web interface17
- IE support15
- Official mobile emulators13
- Cloud-based access12
- Instant access11
- Real mobile devices8
- Selenium compatible5
- Multiple Desktop OS5
- Can be used for Testing and E2E4
- Screenshots4
- Video of test runs3
- Pre-installed developer tools3
- Many browsers2
- Webdriver compatible2
- Favourites2
- Supports Manual, Functional and Visual Diff Testing2
- Cypress Compatible1
- Free for Open Source1
Pros of Sauce Labs
- Selenium-compatible60
- Webdriver compatible46
- Video recordings of every test35
- Qa31
- Mobile support29
- Any programming language26
- Developer tools23
- Test local and firewalled servers21
- Jenkins integration20
- Pristine VMs18
- CI Compatible17
- Appium support11
- Parallel testing9
- Rapid environment preparation8
- Mobile device support8
- Easy testing on almost any device7
- Allows me to Focus more test automation rather than IT7
- Secure testing and easy setup6
- Easy setup with CI and fast automated tests5
- Quick support response5
- Fast and reliable to host the automated tests4
- Easy to setup and understand,4
- Easy setup and integration with Travis Ci3
- Maintained browser matrix3
- Easy onboarding, do not need to manager VMs/OS/Browsers3
- Efficient tool to verify product quality2
- Teamcity Integration and mobile testing win2
- Hany for platform testing2
- Great documentation2
- Generous free trial2
- Easy. Straightforward. Scalable2
- Great way to integrate test suite on cloud2
- Simplicity of Sauce-connect2
- Very Good, Quick, flexible Infrastructure Support1
- It's great for my QA work1
- Awesome tech support1
- Having this available for CI servers is fantastic1
- Amazing service to do cloud cross browser testing1
- Depth of integrations1
- Because of its cloud based support for appium1
- Easy setup, Works great with selenium.1
- QE support1
- Manuals are not very well versed for beginners1
- Secure testing1
- Cheaper than browserstack1
- Stable1
- Simple to set up and integrate so many browser configs0
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Cons of BrowserStack
- Very limited choice of minor versions2
Cons of Sauce Labs
- Relatively slow2
- Expensive2
