Shunra Software, a network virtualization for software testing company, has announced new features to its Shunra NV for HP Software. These features provide greater mobile testing capabilities and dramatically improve ease of use.

Appvance, Inc has announced it has closed its first ever outside round of financing. The $1.05M round was led by Staenberg Ventures, Social Internet Fund and FundersClub.

Sauce Labs has announced that it has expanded its Appium on Sauce mobile application test cloud, making it generally available and adding support for the Android OS.

SmartBear Software is redefining large-scale Web optimization with WebLoadUI Pro, its new Web performance testing tool. This new commercial version, released a few weeks after strong interest in the free WebLoadUI tool, addresses the needs of enterprise and large website teams with advanced capabilities and support at an affordable cost.

Parasoft has announced a new offering that unites Service Virtualization and Network Virtualization to enable more thorough and accurate mobile application testing. The solution enables enterprises to rapidly and cost-effectively establish test environments that accurately represent the production environment,ensuring that test results are reliably predictive of how applications will perform once deployed.

Cigniti Technologies has announced that it has been rated at CMMI–SVC v1.3 Maturity Level 3 of the CMMI Institute (Powered by Carnegie Mellon University) Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI). The decision to operate at SVC v1.3 model is more relevant in today’s market and the markets of the future as well, since it adds more value to the services business that Cigniti is into.

Vector Software and Polarion Software announced a strategic partnership to develop solutions that improve software Verification and Validation in regulated environments.

Quality First Software GmbH has released the new branch of their professional test automation tool for Web and Java GUIs in feature-complete version 3.5.0.

Coverity and NT OBJECTives announced the companies have formed a partnership to enable the industry’s first “developer-ready” Interactive Application Security Testing (IAST) solution. The IAST solution combines and correlates security defects identified by Coverity’s highly-accurate Static Application Security Testing (SAST) software and NTO’s Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) software, providing even more accurate testing results across a broader range of coverage, earlier in the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).

Accelatis, provider of Application Performance Management (APM) solutions for Oracle Hyperion and other enterprise software systems, today announced revolutionary new simulation capabilities for its Ascension Suite. A comprehensive APM software solution for Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) systems, Ascension Suite 3.0 continually monitors a wide array of events that affect Oracle Hyperion and IBM Cognos BI performance.