Sauce Labs vs Spoon
When comparing Sauce Labs vs Spoon, the Slant community recommends Sauce Labs for most people. In the question“What are the best cloud-based cross-browser testing services?” Sauce Labs is ranked 6th while Spoon is ranked 18th. The most important reason people chose Sauce Labs is:
There are over 300 desktop/mobile/tablet browser-platform combination possible.
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Pros
Pro Huge variety of OSs, browsers and devices
There are over 300 desktop/mobile/tablet browser-platform combination possible.
Pro Test on Real Devices
Sauce bought Test Object and now offers automated and manual testing on real devices in public and private clouds.
Pro Selenium automation integration
Pro Integration with CI services
Pro VMs are destroyed after each session
No danger of data leaking to other users who might be using the VM, unlike with BrowserStack
Pro Tests run locally
'turbo' images which are maintained by spoon are run locally. Therefore no risk of exposing your intellectual property
Pro Automated testing using selenium
Cons
Con Very slow
Can take several minutes to start a VM, which is much worse than competitors
Con Graphical artifacts
Frequent screen tearing and other graphical artifacts make it harder to use.