How to integrate with SauceLabs for automated browser and real device testing over a private network

1. E X P E R I E N C E T O O L S
CUSTO M ER
E X P E R I E N C E T O O L S
DEVELOPER
Shane Chapman & Murali Tulugu
October 23, 2018
Sauce Labs Advanced Features
and Integration with Private Network

2. Introductions
MuraliTulugu
Solutions Architect
Sauce Labs
EMAIL: murali.tulugu@saucelabs.com
Shane Chapman
Staff Engineer
WalmartLabs
EMAIL: shane.chapman@walmartlabs.com

3. Sauce Connect (SC)
• Allows testing of internal web sites and applications
• Secure connection between Sauce Labs and your private network
• Easy to install - command line app for Linux, Mac, Windows
• Multiple Start/Stop Options – Manual, CI, Test Runner, Maven Plug-In
• Alternative to Whitelisting
Purpose of Sauce Connect
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4. Sauce Connect Setup
Fire wall
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5. Sauce Connect in High Availability & Load Balance
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6. Sauce Connect – Best Practices
• Start SC in High Availability Mode – Achieve HA /LB
● Multiple tunnels with the same tunnel-identifier
--no-remove-colliding-tunnels
• Start SC in Shared Tunnel Mode – Avoid multiple tunnels
● Users can share parent account tunnel …
--shared
• Only use tunnel for traffic that is needed – Speed up Test Execution
● Drop un-necessary traffic …
--direct-domains and/or --fast-fail-regexps
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7. Problems
• Tunnels require a restart every 24 hours
• Tunnels become unresponsive
• No notifications when tunnels become unresponsive
• Scale tunnels up and down without impacting other
tunnels

8. Solution
• Raven/Lookout - Availability
• Detect and manage unresponsive tunnels (self-healing)
• Orchestrator – Scalability
• Process management to scale up tunnels
• Stats - Alerting & monitoring
• Use thresholds to get notifications

9. Test Pipeline Architecture

10. Raven/Lookout/Orchestrator

11. Walmart Usage
WALMART US
(BROWSERS)
20 Tunnels 6 Tunnels 6 Tunnels 6 Tunnels
38
Tunnels
3800
Selenium
Sessions
=
WALMART US
(DEVICES)
WALMART MEXICO WALMART STORES

12. Impact
0Customer
Impact
4hrsSaved
per Week

13. Impact

14. Next Steps
• Open source the projects for other Sauce Labs
users
• Use the terminal/cron jobs with configuration to
manage tunnels
• Handling of more than 2 DMZ boxes

15. Q&A

16. Contact Us
@testarmada
github.com/testarmada
http://www.testarmada.io