Sauce Labs vs Nightwatchjs Comparison | StackShare

Overview

Sauce Labs

Stacks315

Followers435

Votes438

Nightwatchjs

Stacks178

Followers323

Votes11

GitHub Stars11.9K

Forks1.4K

Nightwatchjs vs Sauce Labs: What are the differences?

What is Nightwatchjs? Automated testing and continous integration framework based on node.js and selenium webdriver. Nightwatch.js is an easy to use Node.js based End-to-End (E2E) testing solution for browser based apps and websites. It uses the powerful Selenium WebDriver API to perform commands and assertions on DOM elements.

What is 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.

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

Some of the features offered by Nightwatchjs are:

e2e
test
javascript

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

Nightwatchjs is an open source tool with 9.43K GitHub stars and 925 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Nightwatchjs's open source repository on GitHub.

Lyft, Coursera, and Yelp are some of the popular companies that use Sauce Labs, whereas Nightwatchjs is used by WebbyLab, UniSharp, and GoEuro. Sauce Labs has a broader approval, being mentioned in 66 company stacks & 11 developers stacks; compared to Nightwatchjs, which is listed in 16 company stacks and 5 developer stacks.

Advice on Sauce Labs, Nightwatchjs

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Jul 20, 2020

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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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Detailed Comparison

Sauce Labs	Nightwatchjs
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.	Nightwatch.js is an easy to use Node.js based End-to-End (E2E) testing solution for browser based apps and websites. It uses the powerful Selenium WebDriver API to perform commands and assertions on DOM elements.
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	e2e; test; javascript; nodejs
Statistics
GitHub Stars -	GitHub Stars 11.9K
GitHub Forks -	GitHub Forks 1.4K
Stacks 315	Stacks 178
Followers 435	Followers 323
Votes 438	Votes 11
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 3 Open source 2 Testing 2 Automates browsers 1 Multiple Browser Support 1 Better cross browser (use selenium) Cons 2 No automatic wait 1 Configuration complexity 1 Less flexibility 1 Limited native mobile app support 1 Limited browser support
Integrations
CircleCI Travis CI Appium Jenkins Selenium Visual Studio AWS Cloud9 TeamCity Applitools Bamboo	Node.js Selenium

What are some alternatives to Sauce Labs, Nightwatchjs?

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.

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.