July 2023 Product News & Updates

Check out the latest product news and updates from Sauce Labs! 

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Streamline UI Testing with Improved Android Emulators

Big news! We upgraded our Espresso/Android Instrumented Test solution for running automated UI tests to include full support for custom testOptions and Android Test Orchestrator on Android emulators.

See the full announcement here.

Appium 2.0 is Now Available on Sauce Labs Real Devices and Emulators/Simulators

Appium 2 is now generally available on Sauce Labs real devices and emulators/simulators. 

To make your migration as seamless as possible, check out our comprehensive migration guide, and use our Platform Configurator to configure the capabilities for your preferred language.

Test the New and Improved Sauce Visual

Calling all testing enthusiasts! Get in on the action and be one of the first to try Sauce Visual Beta.

How will you benefit from this new product?

• Test your web and mobile apps with any language, any test automation framework, and against any web or mobile app.

• Compare screenshots from subsequent tests to instantly see what's changed.

• Perform quick checks for aesthetic or functional changes with a single line of code.

Learn more and sign up for the beta program

More New Features to Spice Up Your Testing

A few updates you may have missed:

• Backtrace application for Slack is now available.

• Selenium 4.10.0 has been released! Watch Diego Molina talk about the present and the future of Selenium here.

• Selenium will stop supporting Java 9 on Sep 30, 2023. Java 11 will be the minimum required version. 

The Latest Testing Insights Coming in Hot

Recommended reads:

• 17 Automated Testing Insights from an Industry Expert by Nikolay Advolodkin

• 11 Tips to Write Better Code (with Java Examples) by Nikolay Advolodkin

• Insights from the Mobile Native Foundation's Mobile Ecosystem Survey by Diego Molina

• Creating a Test Automation Strategy

Must-watched episodes:

• Test Automation Experience:

  • Top 20 Automation Questions

  • Why API Automation is Critical to Success with Mark Winteringham 

• Test Case Scenario:

  • The Future of Cross-Browser Automation As We Know It! Webdriver BiDi

  • Your Test Automation Strategy is NOT Your Test Strategy

Exciting Events on the Horizon

Join us for one (or more!) of our upcoming events:

• COSCUP Conference: July 29-30 (Taiwan)

• Vue.js Forge 4: August 2-3 (Virtual)

• Droidcon NY: September 14-15 (New York City)

• Open Source Summit Europe: September 19-21 (Bilbao, Spain)

• All Things Open: October 15-17, (Raleigh, NC)

• SeaStar Conference: October 15-19 (Dominican Republic)

• Ministry of Testing Athens: November 30 (Athens, Greece)

The Total Economic Impact™ of Sauce Labs

Is Sauce Labs worth the investment? The Total Economic Impact™️ of Sauce Labs conducted by Forrester Consulting is here to help make the evaluation process quicker and easier.

The TEI study is designed to help business leaders evaluate the potential ROI of Sauce Labs' mobile application testing solutions. You’ll also hear from Sauce Labs customers across multiple industries who have achieved increased developer and QA productivity, reduced application risk, new business expansion, reduced costs, and more.

Download the study

That's a Wrap!

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