About Sauce Labs
Sauce Labs was founded in 2008 by Steven Hazel, Chris McCubbin, and Jason Huggins, based on the observation that software development teams building web and mobile applications need to test their software across a very wide and constantly growing range of different browsers, operating system versions, screen sizes, and device types to ensure consistent functionality and appearance for all their actual end users, but that maintaining an in-house testing infrastructure covering this enormous combinatorial range of possible browser, device, and operating system combinations would be prohibitively expensive and operationally burdensome for most individual software companies to build and maintain independently.
Sauce Labs's platform provides cloud-based access to a very large range of real and virtual browser, device, and operating system combinations that development and quality assurance teams can use to run automated and manual tests against their applications, letting a team verify their software works correctly across the full range of environments their actual end users might be using without needing to purchase, maintain, and keep updated a comparably comprehensive in-house device and browser testing lab themselves, a testing infrastructure investment that would be particularly wasteful and difficult to keep current given how quickly new browser versions, mobile devices, and operating system updates are released on an ongoing basis. The company's platform has become particularly important for organizations practicing continuous integration and continuous deployment software development approaches, where automated testing across many different browser and device combinations needs to run quickly and reliably as part of an automated deployment pipeline, since manual testing across such a wide combinatorial range of possible environments would be far too slow to support frequent, rapid software deployment cycles. Sauce Labs's customers span software development teams across many industries and company sizes building web and mobile applications that need reliable cross-browser and cross-device compatibility testing. The company has raised substantial venture funding from investors including Riverwood Capital and Toba Capital, reaching a valuation exceeding $1 billion, competing with other cloud-based testing platforms including BrowserStack.
