Now that we have covered building an in-house Selenium Grid and using a third-party provider, let's discuss some of the key benefits and limitations of both:
- Number of platforms: The major advantage of using a provider like Sauce Labs is that there is virtually an unlimited pool of browser and mobile platforms available. There is really no way to build an in-house grid with 900 browser/OS combinations or hundreds of mobile iOS and Android devices to test against. Along with all the different combinations, users can also test different browser versions, OS versions, mobile device versions, mobile device platforms, mobile device API versions, and so on.
- Maintenance: To ...