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Appium 1.5 The Appium team is extremely proud to announce the release of Appium 1.5! Appium 1.5 has been in the works for over half a year, and we would like to share why it's such an important release for us. Appium 1.5 is primarily a technical rearchitecture. As the project grew from infancy through to 1.0 and beyond, the core team did their best to keep the code organized, to keep it easy for [...]

Sauce Labs is introducing a new rate limiting on our REST endpoints in order to ensure a great experience for all of our customers. In addition to the recent limits placed on the number of requests per second we will be implementing further restrictions with dedicated hourly request limits for each endpoint. The new restrictions will limit the access to all endpoints to 10 reqs/s or 3500 [...]

Starting with Sauce Connect v4.3.13, new features have been added which aim to increase stability when testing websites behind the firewall. 1) Prevent Sauce Connect from shutting down when actively being used by job(s) Argument:  --wait-tunnel-shutdown Adding the above argument prevents users from shutting down their tunnels while jobs are still running.  Should the user attempt to [...]

With a number of reported problems on iOS 9.01 and 9.02, Apple is in beta with a 9.1 version that is supposed to fix issues and become the stable release.  We have iOS 9.1 beta ready now, so you can start testing and be ready for the general release predicted for late October or November.  Check out all our browser / OS combinations at our platform configurator. At Sauce we are [...]

Mobile testing has long been a manual process - limited by the devices you have close at hand or at best, a painfully slow process in the cloud.  Sauce has long had emulators and simulators to let you speed your tests by automating them in the cloud. Sometimes, however, emulators are not enough and you need to test on real devices.  We are happy to announce the public beta of our Real [...]

Following last month's news about support for Windows 10 we're tickled to announce that Sauce Labs now also supports automated testing on Microsoft Edge. As part of this update, we have upgraded our version of Edge from v.11 to v.20, thus adding more stability for both manual and automated tests. In order to run a test on Edge, you would specify the following [...]

Because enterprises are under extreme internal and external pressure to deliver better software, faster, development teams are transitioning to new software delivery processes such as Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD). Both practices have proven their value in accelerating software production beyond traditional approaches, yet achieving continuous testing to support these [...]

Windows 10 is scheduled to launch tomorrow so today Sauce Labs is pleased to announce support for manual and automated Windows 10 testing - get your Win10 tests set up with our Automated Test Configurator. We often release new OS / browser combinations ahead of their scheduled launch so you can begin testing to make sure your apps work on the shiny new systems ahead of time. [...]