Software testing, software quality, test automation news for financing and acquisition of load testing, unit testing, functional testing and DevOps tools.
Anthropic has released Bloom, an open source agentic framework for generating behavioral evaluations of frontier AI models. Bloom takes a researcher-specified behavior and quantifies its frequency and severity across automatically generated scenarios. This allows testing of AI-based systems by evaluating their behavior.
Xoriant has announced the acquisition of TestDevLab, a Latvia‑headquartered software quality engineering company. TestDevLab’s Baltic and Macedonian delivery centers will further strengthen Xoriant’s European presence with access to top engineering talent and EU innovation ecosystems.
Momentic has raised a $15 million Series A led by Standard Capital, with participation from Dropbox Ventures and existing investors Y Combinator, FCVC, Transpose Platform, and Karman Ventures. This funding should accelerate its mission to build the definitive verification layer for software.
OpenText, Capgemini and Sogeti have announced the 17th edition of the World Quality Report 2025: Adapting to Emerging Worlds. The report reveals that while nearly 90% of organizations are now actively pursuing generative AI (Gen AI) in their quality engineering (QE) practices, only 15% have achieved enterprise-scale deployment.
TestSprite, a provider of agentic testing tool for AI-native development, has announced the close of a $6.7 million financing seed round, bringing total funds raised to approximately $8.1 million. Trilogy Equity Partners led the round, with participation from both new and existing investors, including Techstars, Jinqiu Capital, MiraclePlus, Hat-trick Capital, Baidu Ventures, and EdgeCase Capital Partners.
Harness, a AI DevOps Platform, has announced that it has acquired Qwiet AI, formerly known as ShiftLeft, Inc., a provider of agentic AI-powered vulnerability detection and reachability analysis solutions.
SmartBear, a provider of software quality and visibility solutions, announced that it has signed a strategic collaboration agreement (SCA) with Amazon Web Services (AWS), enhancing go-to-market efforts for shared customers while expanding the availability of SmartBear’s software quality tools in AWS Marketplace.