Sauce Labs pulls in $15 million to make software testing faster

With how many complaints I see that an app or other software isn’t being updated with new features as often as they should it reminds me how little people actually know about the developing process for these products. While massive companies like Facebook or Google don’t have much of an excuse in terms of slow updates, smaller companies do. That’s where Sauce Labs thinks it can be of assistance. 

In an agile world where developers are expected to churn out new application features on what can often times be a weekly basis, it can be really hard for engineers to create testing environments on the fly. Sauce Labs, a cloud-based testing startup, thinks it has a solution and it now has $15 million from a Series D funding round that the company plans to use to build out its development team and infrastructure, it said on Thursday. Agile development not only impacts the lives of coders who need to be quicker than ever, but it also “dramatically changed the need for tooling over the years,” explained Steve Hazel, Sauce Labs’ chief product officer and co-founder. With the rise of open-source testing tools, including the popular Selenium, software testers now have new options to choose from that help them quickly test their projects when they are first developed.