August 2010 Summaries

selbotSauce Labs is an open source project that contributes to Selenium and other projects. It powers a searchable archive for the Selenium IRC channel, selenium.saucelabs.com, which is built on top of "selbot," a tool with two main functions: keeping logs of the channel and announcing latest build results. The code for selbot is open source, primarily based on Supybot and xapian, and can be found on GitHub. The project aims to improve itself in the future and encourages community participation by answering questions on the IRC channel.

Sauce Labs has introduced Sauce TV to its cloud-based cross-browser testing service, Sauce OnDemand, providing developers with a live and secure view of their tests running on the cloud machines. This new feature eliminates the "blind spot" in testing applications in the cloud, allowing developers to debug tests more efficiently by having real-time visibility into what's happening during the test cycles. With Sauce TV, developers can share testing videos with their teams, shorten their test debugging cycles, and access full visibility into cross-browser testing cycles in a secure environment without any extra software needed.