Autify software testing record and playback platform vendor announced a $2.5 million seed round led by Global Brain, SalesForce Ventures and Archetype Ventures, raising total capital to over $3 million. The funding will be used in part to support the company’s global and U.S.expansion.
Performing software testing in production is not a taboo anymore in our era of cloud computing and DevOps. This article discusses different types and approaches to do software testing in production and associated contexts, during which one or another kind of functional testing is useful. Also, we will describe in detail about the effective organization of the safe testing of various services in production.
GitLab DevOps solution vendor has completed a $268 million Series E round of fundraising that pushed the company’s valuation to $2.75 billion. This latest funding round was led by existing investors Goldman Sachs and ICONIQ, but also included participation from nine new-to-GitLab investors.
It doesn’t matter if you are developing software with Java, .NET, PHP or another language. If you need to do performance testing – it will be a challenging task, especially nowadays with microservices architectures, clusters and very complex systems. This presentation addresses the most common pitfalls of performance tests. The presenter shares his experience gained through demanding experiments and quite often frustrating failures.
The Let’s Test South Africa conference is an event focused on software testing and software quality. It is a unique opportunity for the African software testing community to network and learn from international and local software testing and software quality assurance experts.
SmartBear has announced the acquisition of Bitbar, a provider of mobile app test automation platform and device cloud. No financial terms were disclosed. Crunchbase puts Bitbar’s value at about $3 million. In the past months, SmartBear already acquired Cucumber Ltd, Hiptest and Zephyr.
Running more than 5000 automated system tests on a deployed application with outgoing connections to about 25 other systems, each with their own dependencies, where test data is complex and needs to be in-sync, is a great challenge. Doing it every night, year after year, with the requirement to fail only on the event of actual errors in the application under test, is a nightmare.
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