Introduction to Sauce Labs for Automated Testers

Overview

• Sauce Labs is a testing platform for web and mobile applications.
• Provides access to the latest devices for frequent and early testing.
• Offers automated and live testing on real and virtual devices, as well as desktop browsers.

Key Features

Concurrency

• Ability to run hundreds of tests in parallel.
• Speeds up production time and reduces risk of revenue loss.

Setup and Usage

• Use test scripts written in Selenium, Appium, or other frameworks.
• Set capabilities in tests to communicate with Sauce Labs.
• Connect internal testing servers via Sauce Connect proxy or another secure connection.

Platforms and Environments

• Access to hundreds of virtual machines and real devices.
• Ability to test on thousands of different environments.
• Parallel testing speeds up process.

Dashboards and Analytics

• Dashboards for sharing test results and insights across teams.
• Access to analytics for locating and fixing bugs quickly.

User Interface

• Automated Test Results Dashboard: Displays tests run on different operating systems and browsers.
• Real Devices Interface: View tests on mobile devices and browsers.
• Live Testing Interface: Offers a variety of devices for live and automated testing, useful for debugging.
• Virtual Browser Tests: Options for desktop and mobile testing.

Advantages of Sauce Labs

• Supports diverse testing frameworks, drivers, and programming languages.
• Facilitates data sharing and analytics insights.
• Offers video, screenshots, logs, and metadata on test results.

Test Details Page

• View detailed test information, including video, screenshots, and logs.
• Network and performance tabs for front-end performance metrics.
• Insights tool for gathering data and trends over time.

Sauce Connect

• Secure proxy tunnel for connecting through a firewall.
• Protects customer data and enables secure internal development server testing.

Additional Features

• Visual Testing with Screener: Tests visual components across browsers.
• Headless Testing: Speeds up automated testing without visual interface.
• Sauce Test Runner Toolkit: Supports non-Selenium frameworks like Cypress and TestCafe.

Further Learning

• Visit training.saucelabs.com for more information on Sauce Labs automation and features.