Sauce Labs on Wednesday announced testing support for Adobe Flex and Flash technologies. Based on Selenium, Sauce OnDemand enables cross-browser web application testing of Adobe Flex and Flash technologies in the cloud. This is the first functional testing product that supports test automation for hybrid web applications that include HTML, JavaScript, Flex and Flash technology.

"Now it's easier and faster to do cross-browser tests for our web and Flex based Integrated Online Marketing solution," said Keith Davidson, vice president of engineering and operations at Lyris, Inc. "With testing support for Flex and Flash technology from Sauce Labs, we can write one test for all our Flex and web application functional testing and run it on multiple browsers in the cloud via Sauce OnDemand. Having this automation is an important component of our continuous integration strategy to deliver quality products to our customers."

Based on the open source Selenium functional testing framework, the Sauce IDE can easily and intuitively record and replay tests for hybrid web applications that include HTML, Javascript and now Adobe® Flex® and Flash® technology. Developers and QAs can export Sauce IDE tests to Python, PHP, Java and Ruby, and run these tests in the cloud using Sauce OnDemand.

"We're pleased to see that Sauce Labs is releasing a solid open source testing solution available for applications created with Flex and Flash technology," said Dave Gruber, group product marketing manager at Adobe Systems. "The ease of conducting cross-browser application testing in the cloud is a great advancement, making Flex and Flash developers more efficient."

Flex is a highly productive, free, open source framework for building expressive web applications that deploy consistently on all major browsers, desktops and operating systems by leveraging the Adobe Flash Player and Adobe AIR® runtimes.

"Automated cross-browser testing of applications created with Flex and Flash technology is a critical component of deploying applications," said John Dunham, CEO of Sauce Labs. "Sauce Labs is happy to extend the Selenium framework to support this."