Sauce Labs, Inc.,
the leading cloud-based web and mobile application testing platform,
today announced the launch of Sauce for Microsoft Visual Studio Online
(VSO), a service that adds highly scalable automated and manual testing
functionality to the Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery
(CD) components provided by VSO.
VSO
provides a set of cloud-powered collaboration tools that work with a
company's existing integrated development environment (IDE) or editor,
so that teams can work effectively on software projects of all shapes
and sizes. In one single package, VSO includes services for teams to
share code, track work, and ship software, for any development language.
Sauce
for VSO offers an integrated automated testing solution with secure,
reliable access to thousands of VMs that can be configured to run tests
against nearly 700 different browser/platform/OS combinations, including
mobile emulators/simulators and real devices.
Optimized
for CI/CD environments, builds can be configured so that unit and
regression tests are automatically run with each pull request, ensuring
that only successful builds are released to market - and tests can be
run in parallel so that build times are reduced from hours to minutes.
Sauce for VSO also provides a facility for testing behind firewalls via
Sauce ConnectTM, an enterprise-grade secure tunneling technology that is
also part of the VSO integration.
"Our
strategic relationship with Microsoft to bring automated testing to
Visual Studio Online is further evidence of Sauce Labs' commitment to
accelerate the software development process," said Charles Ramsey, CEO
of Sauce Labs. "Traditional testing methods stand in the way of
Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery. As more and more
organizations move their code pipelines to the cloud for speed and
efficiency, Sauce will be there."
"We
think the developer community will find Sauce for Visual Studio Online
integration invaluable to their build release process. It's a natural
complement to the Continuous Integration capabilities in Visual Studio
Online, and should help them rapidly scale their release cycle," said
Mitra Azizirad, General Manager, Developer Platform Marketing, Microsoft
Corp.
Sauce
for VSO is the newest delivery pipeline integration offered by Sauce
Labs, and will also work for users of the Microsoft Team Foundation
Server (TFS). With plugins for Jenkins, Travis, Bamboo, TeamCity and
other CI servers, Sauce Labs is rapidly becoming the defacto standard
for automated testing in Continuous Delivery environments.