BrowserSync vs Sauce Labs: What are the differences?
BrowserSync: Reload all your browsers, every time you hit save. BrowserSync makes your tweaking and testing faster by synchronising file changes and interactions across multiple devices. It’s wicked-fast and totally free; 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.
BrowserSync can be classified as a tool in the "Live Reloading" category, while Sauce Labs is grouped under "Browser Testing".
Some of the features offered by BrowserSync are:
- Interaction sync
- File sync
- URL history
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
BrowserSync is an open source tool with 10.7K GitHub stars and 689 GitHub forks. Here's a link to BrowserSync's open source repository on GitHub.
Lyft, Coursera, and Yelp are some of the popular companies that use Sauce Labs, whereas BrowserSync is used by Kriasoft, Reactor Digital, and Zenfulfillment. Sauce Labs has a broader approval, being mentioned in 66 company stacks & 11 developers stacks; compared to BrowserSync, which is listed in 10 company stacks and 12 developer stacks.
