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Date Published
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Rebecca Cramer
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508
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English
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Summary

SauceCon 2020 was a virtual event hosted by Sauce Labs, which saw over 5,000 registrants from 98 countries attend the two-day conference. The event featured a packed agenda with testing goodness and included keynote speakers such as Niloofar Razi Howe, Diego Lo Giudice, and Anil Chakravarthy, who discussed topics like digital experience and future of testing. Sauce Labs also released the 2020 edition of the Continuous Testing Benchmark Report, which reviews critical metrics for continuous testing excellence. The report showed that organizations still struggle with test quality, but also highlighted opportunities for improvement. Additionally, Sauce Labs announced a new Failure Analysis offering to help developers quickly address common issues impacting test quality. The company also released the beta for saucectl, an open source solution to make web testing easier and faster. Overall, SauceCon 2020 provided a virtual "hallway track" for attendees to engage with each other through Q&A in Slack channels, and was made possible by the support of sponsors.