Sauce Labs
| Sauce Labs Inc. | |
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| Type | Enterprise software, web development, Mobile app development |
| Industry | Software industry |
| Founded | 2008 |
| Founders | Jason Huggins, Steven Hazel, John Dunham, Al Sargent |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California , United States |
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| Website | saucelabs |
Sauce Labs is an American cloud-based software testing company that provides a unified platform for quality assurance across the software development lifecycle (SDLC). It is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
History
[edit]Sauce Labs was founded in August 2008 by Jason Huggins, a software engineer known for creating the Selenium testing framework.[1][2][3]
In December 2016, the company announced the acquisition of Test Object, a real device mobile app testing platform.[4]
In April 2019, Sauce Labs announced an addition to its platform, Sauce Performance, providing developers with the ability to measure application performance metrics early in the software development phase. These performance metrics include time to first meaningful paint, time to first interactive, page weight and speed Index. The product uses algorithms to establish a baseline that can be used for regression testing.[5] The company also announced in April that it had acquired Screener.io, a provider of cloud-based automated visual regression testing, including Storybook Component testing.[6][7]
In December 2020, the company completed the acquisition of API Fortress, a provider of automated APP testing solutions for developers and DevOps teams.[8] In February 2021, Sauce Labs announced that they had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire scriptless testing software provider, AutonomIQ.[9] Sauce Labs announced in March 2021 that it had acquired TestFairy, an Israeli-based company that provides a platform for developers to test and distribute beta versions of mobile applications.[10] In July, 2021 the company completed the acquisition of Backtrace I/O Inc., a provider of production error monitoring and tracing for development and QA teams.[11]
In February 2025, Prince Kohli was named as the new CEO.[12]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Google Testing Blog: Selenium's Inventor". Google Testing Blog. 2007-09-19. Retrieved 2015-11-05.
- ↑ "Jason Huggins on Startup Life in CA and CHI, and How He Scored Twitter Handle @hugs". bizjournals.com. 2015-03-30. Retrieved 2025-10-01.
- ↑ admin-ectnews (2013-05-14). "Sauce Labs' Jason Huggins: App Testing Is for the (Angry) Birds". LinuxInsider. Retrieved 2025-10-01.
- ↑ "Sauce Labs acquires TestObject to broaden its automated testing solution for web, mobile applications". SD Times. 2016-12-08. Retrieved 2020-04-20.
- ↑ "Sauce Labs Combines Functional and Performance Testing". DevOps.com. 2019-04-05. Retrieved 2019-04-11.
- ↑ "Guide To Visual Regression Testing With Visual Testing Tools". www.softwaretestinghelp.com. Retrieved 2020-04-20.
- ↑ "Sauce Labs Acquires Screener Visual Testing Tool". DevOps.com. 2019-04-24. Retrieved 2020-04-20.
- ↑ "Sauce Labs Acquires API Fortress to strengthen Continuous Testing Platform". Trending in Testing. 15 December 2020. Retrieved 2021-03-17.
- ↑ Schalm, More from Deborah (2021-02-02). "Sauce Labs Enters into Definitive Agreement to Acquire AutonomIQ". DevOps.com. Retrieved 2021-02-05.
- ↑ "SD Times news digest: Sauce Labs acquires TestFairy, Git 2.31 released, and Jscrambler now integrates with GitLab - SD Times". SD Times. 2021-03-16. Retrieved 2021-07-08.
- ↑ "Sauce Labs extends error monitoring into production with acquisition of Backtrace". SiliconANGLE. 2021-07-06. Retrieved 2021-07-08.
- ↑ Mondal, Shalini (2025-02-04). "Sauce Labs Names Prince Kohli as New CEO | AIM". Analytics India Magazine. Retrieved 2025-09-08.
