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Sauce Labs vs Galen: What are the differences?
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.
What is Galen? Automated testing of responsive design and html layout for web applications. It is a tool for testing layout of responsive web apps. It is based on Selenium and has a special language for testing page layout.
Sauce Labs and Galen 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, Galen provides the following key features:
- Responsive
- Cross-browser layout testing
- Functional testing
Galen is an open source tool with 1.33K GitHub stars and 143 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Galen's open source repository on GitHub.
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
A SaaS offering like Sauce Labs (or BrowserStack or LambdaTest, etc) will provide a remote Selenium/Appium Grid including the ability to run test automation in parallel (up to the amount based your subscription level) an a wide array of browsers and mobile devices.
These tools can be expensive, but if you can afford them, the expertise and effort of maintaining the grid, browser updates, etc. is worth it.
AWS Device Farm can be significantly cheaper, but is much more work to setup and run. It will not give you as many devices, or the reporting and screen/video capture you get with the the services. And there is no support for AWS Device Farm, and very poor documentation. I have used it, but do not recommend it. Running your own grid and physical device lab is better, but I'd stick with a service like Sauce Labs or Perfecto which will save you time and give you better services despite the higher price tag.
Stability - Just works. Availability - More than 15 datacenters. Enterprise features like SSO, local testing and SOC2/GDPR compliant.
BitBar'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 Galen
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 Galen
Cons of Sauce Labs
- Relatively slow2
- Expensive2
