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ENTERPRISE STRATEGY GROUP'S TOP CHALLENGES WITH IN-HOUSE MOBILE TEST
INFRASTRUCTURE

Enterprise Strategy Group's new report, Analyzing the Economic Benefits of Sauce
Labs for Mobile Testing and TestOps, identifies the top challenges for today's
mobile application development and testing teams, plus the economic benefits
organizations can expect from using Sauce Labs for continuous testing.



At Sauce Labs, we live and breathe software testing (in a manner of speaking, of
course). We see firsthand the challenges our customers face every day as they
try to keep up with the explosive growth of the global application market.

To best serve our customers, we wanted to take the pulse of the mobile
development industry to understand the state of mobile application development
and testing, including top challenges and trends. That's why we commissioned
Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) to conduct an industry research survey and
perform an Economic Validation of Sauce Labs solutions for mobile testing.

We're excited to share Enterprise Strategy Group's report, Analyzing the
Economic Benefits of Sauce Labs for Mobile Testing and TestOps with you. The
report includes ESG's analysis of data gathered from customer interviews, custom
research, case studies, and TCO/ROI models to evaluate the quantitative and
qualitative benefits Sauce Labs customers can expect from using the Sauce DevOps
Test Toolchain — and Sauce Real Device Cloud in particular — for web and mobile
application testing.

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TOP 8 CHALLENGES OF IN-HOUSE MOBILE TEST INFRASTRUCTURE

As part of their research, ESG identified the following top challenges of
cloud-based mobile application testing vs. on-premises or hybrid test
infrastructure:

 1. Increasing demand for applications, with nearly 86% of companies reporting
    an increase in applications they're developing.

 2. Delayed feedback loops, which decrease the speed and quality of app
    releases.

 3. Increased test case complexity as a result of the increasing complexity of
    apps and tech stacks.

 4. Cost of maintaining devices, with each company testing on an average of 82
    different device/OS/browser combinations.

 5. Excessive false-negative results that distract development teams and
    destabilize release schedules.

 6. Testing bottlenecks from the inability to run parallel (concurrent) test
    sessions.

 7. High number of escaped defects, which creates a poor customer experience and
    increases technical debt.

 8. Lack of historical quality insights, which makes triaging and prioritizing
    defects more difficult, time-consuming, and costly.




ESG'S KEY FINDINGS ON THE STATE OF MOBILE DEVELOPMENT & TESTING

ESG's survey of 300 developers, test engineers, SREs, and product owners at
mid-sized and enterprise companies revealed some interesting (and occasionally
eye-opening) statistics on today's state of mobile application development and
testing:

 * 50% of survey respondents doubled the number of mobile apps they develop in
   the past three years.

 * 76% of organizations plan to increase their testing capabilities in the next
   12-24 months.

 * Two-thirds or more of companies agree they have issues with the scalability,
   cost, productivity, and completeness of increased testing that will help them
   get where they need to be.

 * 41% of developer time is spent on testing apps, which leaves only 59% for
   coding applications.

 * 65% of research respondents reported that their testing is comprised of at
   least 50% manual workflows and tasks.

 * 75% of participants with highly automated testing processes say their test/QA
   team is seen as a competitive differentiator.

This last statistic in particular backs up one of our core tenets at Sauce Labs:
a combination of manual and automated testing is the best strategy for
delivering quality applications at speed. When you deliver code that behaves
exactly as it should, every time, you deliver an application experience that
benefits both your customers and your company's bottom line.

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mobile application development and testing and how Sauce Labs helps companies
scale their mobile testing.

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4 ECONOMIC BENEFITS OF SAUCE LABS FOR MOBILE TESTING AND TESTOPS

Bringing everything together: ESG's economic analysis identified ultimately
found that Sauce Labs customers can expect to experience material benefits in
four key areas:



 1. Accelerated product releases - Sauce Labs customers can accelerate time to
    release by up to 50% compared to in-house testing environments, plus expect
    a 47% improvement in time to push code to production on a weekly or more
    frequent basis.

 2. Lower costs - Sauce Labs customers can eliminate approximately $200K in
    annual maintenance costs.

 3. Improved insight and agility - Sauce Labs customers can find and fix issues
    more efficiently by running more tests throughout development and
    post-release. In fact, many Sauce Labs customers interviewed by ESG said
    they conduct over 100 test sessions concurrently. This results in a 75-100%
    reduction in testing bottlenecks, a 75% improvement in reducing breaking
    changes, and a 150% improvement in feature rollbacks.

 4. Improved risk management - ESG found that Sauce Labs helps customers reduce
    the risk exposure of their software through more complete testing, hardened
    code, error reporting and diagnostics, proactive Support, and reduced
    staffing risk.

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scale their mobile testing.

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WATCH OUR WEBINAR ON DEMAND

Watch the replay of the roundtable discussion between Nathan McAfee, Senior
Economic Analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group, Wim Selles, Staff Product Manager
at Sauce Labs, and Kristian DeVito, Senior Solutions Engineer at Sauce Labs.
They discussed the key findings of ESG's research and how it impacts
organizations that develop web and mobile applications. Watch now

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