In house vs cloud
In house 🏠
Benefits ➕
- Less Cost 😉 🙌
- More control and Customization 👨💻
Tradeoffs ➖
- Maintenance overhead 🙍🏻♂️
- Need dedicated team to maintain
- Limit to no of VM/containers
Cloud 🌩
Benefits ➕
- Availability and outsourced Management
- Large no of platform/browser combinations
- Monitoring/dashboards
Tradeoffs ➖
- More Cost 🤑
- Network latency 🚶
- Data Security 🖥
Some Available choices
- SauceLabs, BrowserStack, Applitools Ultrafast grid, Perfecto, HeadSpin ...