This document covers the rational for cross browser testing ion the cloud. Selenium testing infrastructure can be cost effectively replaced with Sauce Labs Selenium in th cloud offering, called Sauce OnDemand.

1. Achieving Agility And Continuous Integration Development With A Cross Browser Testing Environment In The Cloud

3. Aim is to make people more effective with Selenium-based testing

4. Flagship product, Sauce OnDemand, enables cross-browser testing automation in the cloud

6. The Problem: Browser Wars 2.0, cont. StatCounter Global Stats are brought to you by StatCounter – the free online visitor stats tool, http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version-ww-monthly-200807-201003.

8. Solves a huge pain: developers can test different browsers on one scripting platform

9. Easy to adopt: Selenium IDE (record/playback)

10. Extensible (Flex, Facebook connect)

12. Selenium Jobs Rising Percent growth of job postings containing “Selenium.” Source: Indeed.com

13. Sauce Labs’ Success Recipe

15. Value-added, enhanced distributions:

16. Sauce RC (Selenium RC (Remote Control))

17. Sauce IDE (Selenium IDE)

18. Commercial Support for Selenium

20. Record and playback test videos to identify failures and see how apps look in different browsers

21. Run tests in parallel, saving time and allowing for agile development and continuous integration

24. Reduce cost, realign resources

25. Sauce OnDemand eliminates the need to manage complex in house server farms

26. Pay as you go –only pay when you test