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Sauce Labs announced the acquisition of Screener, a provider of automated visual testing solutions, as the company continues to evolve to include non-functional testing alongside functional testing to deliver a more comprehensive experience to customers.

Screener enables organizations to test their UI across multiple browsers, devices and operating systems to automatically detect visual regressions and spot inconsistencies, ensuring users have the right visual experience regardless of how they view an application.

With the acquisition of Screener, Sauce Labs can now tightly integrate visual testing into functional testing workflows, enabling users to deploy both visual and functional testing without sacrificing the convenience and simplicity of working with a single vendor. In addition, Screener’s front-end visual component testing solution enables developers to test individual UI components to get the fast feedback they need in the early stages of the development cycle.

For any organization with a digital presence, the visual accuracy of an application has a meaningful impact on how customers interact with their business. With solutions for both end-to-end visual testing as well as front-end visual component testing, Screener enables users to:

- Build and run their own visual tests

- Automate test flows in minutes

- Use DOM snapshots to identify the differences in an app by looking at both visual and programmatic data

- Ignore areas based on element identification

- Store baselines and seamlessly manage entire test lifecycle in the cloud

Sauce Labs also announced the general availability of Sauce Headless, an offering that provides cloud-based headless browser testing on containers to facilitate fast and affordable early pipeline testing

Sauce Headless enables development teams to get fast feedback on code and increase build efficiency by running atomic tests early in the delivery pipeline. It leverages headless Chrome and Firefox browsers on Linux in a container-based infrastructure so development teams can identify issues early and keep the pipeline moving by testing on every commit. By blending headless testing for quick feedback with cross-browser testing for full platform compatibility testing and debugging, organizations benefit from a single, unified testing experience that can scale instantly while reducing the time and resources needed to support and maintain their test infrastructure.

Sauce Headless is available now.