Software Testing News

Tricentis has announced the acquisition of SeaLights, a SaaS-based, software quality intelligence platform. SeaLights further increases Tricentis’ market leadership in quality intelligence by adding expanded capabilities for visibility and insights into code and tests throughout the continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipeline.

Autify, an AI platform for quality engineering, has announced that it has completed a Series B funding round of $13 million and released a beta version of Zenes, an autonomous AI agent for software quality assurance.

BlinqIO generative-AI software testing platform has recently raised $5M in funding. The round was led by Flint Capital with participation from Inovia Capital Precede Fund I, TAL ventures and SeedIL. The company intends to use the funds to assist the AI test automation engineer in rolling operations across the USA.

Test automation platform Testsigma has announced today that it has raised $8.2 million in funding led by MassMutual Ventures. Previous investors Accel, STRIVE and BoldCap also participated in the round. The company previously raised $4.6M led by Accel along with STRIVE and BoldCap in 2022.

Launched nearly a year and a half ago as a preview version, Aqua, the JetBrains IDE for test automation, is now generally available. You can get a free license for individual, non-commercial use of Aqua.

Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ: SNPS) today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement with Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. and Francisco Partners, two global private equity firms, for the sale of its Software Integrity Group business in a transaction with a total value of up to $2.1 billion. Upon completion of the transaction, the business will emerge as a newly independent application security testing software provider.

uTest has rebranded itself as Applause. The company also announced its entry into the EU market by acquiring German crowdtesting company, Testhub, which will become the European headquarters for Applause operations. The multi-million Euro deal consists of a combination of cash and equity and, as part of the acquisition, Berlin Technologie Holding (BTH) becomes a strategic investor in Applause EU.