Sauce Labs, the agentic software quality assurance leader created by the founders of Selenium and Appium, today announced that branded communications innovator First Orion has leveraged Sauce Labs to transform its physical device testing processes. First Orion replaced its manual, device-heavy testing infrastructure with Sauce Labs’ programmable Real Device Cloud, accelerating telecom and mobile release cycles by up to 40% while freeing up 35% of engineering and QA capacity.
First Orion employed Real Device Cloud to move beyond a fragmented, manually managed fleet of test devices to a fully programmable, real-device testing layer. Sauce Labs provided First Orion with complete market-matrix device breadth—combining broad OS and OEM coverage with the deep API control needed for complex telecom validation. As a result, the company was able to achieve:
- 20% baseline improvement in release-cycle time across products, rising to as much as 40% for telecom solutions and mobile apps.
- 35% of combined engineering and QA capacity reclaimed, giving those teams more time for product development, architecture, test design and quality analysis.
- More than 10% savings on physical-device spending alone.
Sauce Labs helps First Orion to smoothly scale testing as business grows
First Orion provides scam protection and branded communications technology for wireless carriers, businesses, and their customers. Before using Sauce Labs, managing physical device fleets across distributed teams consumed up to 10% of engineering bandwidth in setup time alone while creating test environment inconsistencies.
First Orion leveraged Sauce Labs Real Device Cloud, accessing a global fleet of public and private real devices with genuine device diversity across Apple, Google, and other OEM hardware—to expand device coverage and build custom tooling. The team achieved screen mirroring, streaming logs, and maintaining persistent connections for long-running communications tests without hardware maintenance. This API-level control enabled the company to support specialized telecom workflows impossible on conventional testing portals, turning Sauce Labs into underlying infrastructure for product development rather than just a testing service.
Programmability provides foundation to ramp up AI adoption
Real Device Cloud is also giving First Orion a foundation for bringing AI more directly into how it builds releases. By making real-device telemetry, logs, network signals and test results more accessible, First Orion can feed AI models the rich, real-world context they need to identify patterns, diagnose failures, surface insights and automate decisions that would otherwise require manual engineering review.
This will allow AI-driven development tools to interact more directly with the testing environment, using device data to inform changes, validate new functionality across devices and operating systems, and provide developers with faster feedback as they build.
Go here to learn about how Sauce Labs is empowering First Orion to accelerate release cycles, reclaim QA capacity, and save on device spend.
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First Orion releases 40% faster with Sauce Labs AURA’s Real Device Cloud
Sauce Labs, the agentic software quality assurance leader created by the founders of Selenium and Appium, today announced that branded communications innovator First Orion has leveraged Sauce Labs to transform its physical device testing processes. First Orion replaced its manual, device-heavy testing infrastructure with Sauce Labs’ programmable Real Device Cloud, accelerating telecom and mobile release cycles by up to 40% while freeing up 35% of engineering and QA capacity.
First Orion employed Real Device Cloud to move beyond a fragmented, manually managed fleet of test devices to a fully programmable, real-device testing layer. Sauce Labs provided First Orion with complete market-matrix device breadth—combining broad OS and OEM coverage with the deep API control needed for complex telecom validation. As a result, the company was able to achieve:
Sauce Labs helps First Orion to smoothly scale testing as business grows
First Orion provides scam protection and branded communications technology for wireless carriers, businesses, and their customers. Before using Sauce Labs, managing physical device fleets across distributed teams consumed up to 10% of engineering bandwidth in setup time alone while creating test environment inconsistencies.
First Orion leveraged Sauce Labs Real Device Cloud, accessing a global fleet of public and private real devices with genuine device diversity across Apple, Google, and other OEM hardware—to expand device coverage and build custom tooling. The team achieved screen mirroring, streaming logs, and maintaining persistent connections for long-running communications tests without hardware maintenance. This API-level control enabled the company to support specialized telecom workflows impossible on conventional testing portals, turning Sauce Labs into underlying infrastructure for product development rather than just a testing service.
Programmability provides foundation to ramp up AI adoption
Real Device Cloud is also giving First Orion a foundation for bringing AI more directly into how it builds releases. By making real-device telemetry, logs, network signals and test results more accessible, First Orion can feed AI models the rich, real-world context they need to identify patterns, diagnose failures, surface insights and automate decisions that would otherwise require manual engineering review.
This will allow AI-driven development tools to interact more directly with the testing environment, using device data to inform changes, validate new functionality across devices and operating systems, and provide developers with faster feedback as they build.
Go here to learn about how Sauce Labs is empowering First Orion to accelerate release cycles, reclaim QA capacity, and save on device spend.
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