Sauce Labs vs WebdriverIO: What are the differences?
Developers describe Sauce Labs as "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. On the other hand, WebdriverIO is detailed as "Webdriver/Selenium 2.0 JavaScript bindings for Node.js". WebdriverIO lets you control a browser or a mobile application with just a few lines of code. Your test code will look simple, concise and easy to read.
Sauce Labs and WebdriverIO 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, WebdriverIO provides the following key features:
- Extendable
- Support for the WebDriver specification as well as to Appium
- Easy Test Setup
WebdriverIO is an open source tool with 5.04K GitHub stars and 1.44K GitHub forks. Here's a link to WebdriverIO's open source repository on GitHub.
According to the StackShare community, Sauce Labs has a broader approval, being mentioned in 66 company stacks & 11 developers stacks; compared to WebdriverIO, which is listed in 7 company stacks and 3 developer stacks.
