Sauce, a platform for test automation, offers seven best practices to help teams maximize their testing experience. By recording pass/fail status, integrating with Continuous Integration systems, passing build info, running tests in parallel, using secure tunneling technology such as Sauce Connect, leveraging recommended frameworks, and using breakpoints to investigate errors, teams can speed up their testing, catch defects earlier, and improve the overall efficiency of their testing workflow. These practices are illustrated by an example account from the AngularJS team, which uses Sauce's free plan for open source projects and showcases how to set up a Sauce account to achieve these benefits.