Software Testing News

PLATO Testing, Canada’s only Indigenous-led and staffed software testing company, is celebrating the new year with a significant investment of $500,000 from investment firm Raven Indigenous Capital Partners. The funding will support the training and employment of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit students as software testers, boosting the Indigenous economy and creating jobs.

Cypress.io, the leading automated testing framework, today announced it has closed a $40M Series B funding led by OpenView Venture Partners. Cypress.io is an open source cross-platform end-to-end test runner for anything that runs in a browser. Its architecture is unique wherein the tests run alongside the application inside the browser, which allows the tests to closely control and observe the application.

Global digitalization and IoT expert Bosch.IO has selected MachNation MIT-E Pf to support IoT solution performance testing of the Bosch IoT Suite, the open-source-based Bosch software platform for IoT solutions. MachNation MIT-E Pf — a flexible, cost-effective, and IoT-centric product for performance testing — was used to independently verify the performance and reliability of IoT solutions created on the Bosch IoT Suite.

Digitate, a software venture of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), has announced the release of ignio™ AI.Assurance. ignio AI.Assurance generates test scenarios autonomously, understands the impact of application changes, and can also reorder the test scenarios based on the application screen workflow.

BrowserStack has announced the acquisition of Percy, a visual testing and review platform. With this acquisition, developers and quality assurance (QA) teams can run everything from visual tests to manual and automated functional tests on BrowserStack’s infrastructure and ship high-quality software at speed. Developers can begin using Percy immediately via their BrowserStack account.

You might think that the crowd testing space is already crowded, but some companies are still expanding like Italian startup AppQuality that announced recently raising €3.5 million in a financial round.

Tricentis has acquired SpecFlow, the dominant Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) tool for .NET software developers. SpecFlow pragmatic approach to specification-by-example has helped software development teams improve collaboration with business stakeholders to build and deliver higher quality software with Agile testing.