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We are excited to let you know that we have released a beta version of our open source Sauce plugin for Selenium Grid! This plugin allows you to easily connect to and leverage Sauce's virtual machine capacity and extensive cross-browser platform support from any existing Selenium Grid setup, allowing you to transparently run Selenium 2 (WebDriver) tests using either your local Grid nodes or Sauce [...]

We're pleased to announce a new release of the Sauce ruby gem! After a lot of refactoring, version 2 of the gem is a dramatic step forward for Sauce on Ruby. Here are a couple built-in features we think you'll enjoy with this 2.0 release. Baked-In Capybara Support Capybara is now a fundamental part of the gem. Capybara is a very straight-forward DSL for interacting with web pages in a [...]

Today, Sauce Labs is very happy to announce the general availability of OS X, iOS, and Android in the Sauce cloud testing services. Mobile web and desktop web developers can now use our service to run their functional tests on iOS (iPhone, iPad), Android, Safari+OS X, Firefox+OS X, Google Chrome+OS X. If you want to start using it NOW, you can stop reading and go straight to our Getting Started [...]

Here at Sauce Labs, we're always looking forward to the next big thing in testing. That's why we're proud to announce support for Mac OS X, iOS, and Android! If you're a developer and designing websites for mobile devices, it is increasingly important to test those sites on a mobile device. Now, you can run tests on iOS and Android in Sauce's automated and manual testing tools. To get [...]

Like bow ties, Javascript is cool. People love it so much that they're bringing it everywhere (server, desktop UI, etc). If you do Javascript development, you probably love it for its funkiness - even if your code is pretty crazy. But that's ok, because your code base is (hopefully) extensively tested... But wouldn’t you love it if everything (tests included) were in Javascript? Ok, maybe [...]

At Sauce, we care about testing because we care about speeding up the development cycle. Today we're announcing a new weapon in the fight against the often time-consuming practice of test-debugging: Sauce Breakpoints. Anyone who's run into Selenium tests failing due to Javascript issues knows that browser plugins like Firebug or Chrome Dev Tools are an essential part of fixing broken tests. But [...]

One of the great things about Sauce OnDemand is that it works with any programming language. For all you Node.js fans looking for ways to ensure excellent cross-browser test coverage, check out the demo below to see how to use Selenium & Sauce with Express.js, Vow.js, and WD.js. For more info, visit the Sauce Node Demo on Github. Happiest testing, to you!

This is a guest blog post by Will Iverson, David Drake, Osama Khalaf, and Adam Herbst of Dynacron Group, a technology consulting firm based outside Seattle that provides software development (Java/.NET) and BI/DW services based on Continuous Delivery. Dynacron Group staff started working with Selenium nearly four years ago. The biggest problem we had was execution time – we had a limited [...]