Sauce Labs Adds TV to Testing Service

While the concept of replaying an application test has been around for awhile, Jason Huggins, creator of Selenium and co-founder of Sauce Labs, said trying to securely provide Sauce TV via a cloud computing platform required a significant investment in resources to properly scale the Sauce On Demand service, which is based on the open source code for application testing known as the Selenium project.

Huggins said that because the people in the IT department that are in charge of testing usually don’t get priority access to internal IT infrastructure, application testing has become one of the most popular applications used in the cloud today.

Longer term, the question is whether stand-alone application testing services will be incorporated into application development platforms that are being rolled out in the cloud. Huggins said that while testers are working more closely with developers than ever before, the testing function is still a distinct activity in most organizations.

Huggins would not rule out whether Sauce Labs will extend its cloud computing platform to include application development, but he did say that he expected Sauce Labs to develop relationships with companies that provide application development services, especially in scenarios where Sauce Labs' testing service is deployed on the same cloud computing platform as the application development service.