AppLabs has announced that it has acquired the award-winning web-based test design tools developer ValueMinds. Commenting on the acquisition, Sashi Reddi, founder and chairman of AppLabs said, “We are delighted to make this significant acquisition at a time when our customers are looking to us to provide thought leadership in the testing space. This is [...]

Userlytics Corporation has unveiled its remote usability testing service which it says is the first online usability testing service that provides the rapid results, and comprehensive reporting that is required to make important development decisions in fast-paced development teams. “Userlytics combines the power of online testing with the convenience of an immediately available panel of [...]

Micro Focus has launched SilkTest 2010 and SilkCentral Test Manager 2010, its latest software quality products that it says are designed to proactively drive quality improvements across the entire software development life cycle. Organisations using Continuous Quality Assurance can improve software delivery time to market and eliminate defects at every stage of development, maximising the [...]

Micro Focus has announced the availability of SilkPerformer CloudBurst, a peak demand load testing capability based on its Enterprise Cloud Services (ECS) technology. According to MicroFocus, CloudBurst extends its load and performance testing solution SilkPerformer out to the cloud. With CloudBurst, SilkPerformer enables testing organisations to manage large load tests that emulate hundreds of thousands [...]

TestPlant has announced an offer to any UK public sector organisations or businesses with government contracts. The first licence of its eggPlant robotic software testing tool can be acquired at no cost in its first year of use by any new customer whose funding comes from central or local government. According to the company, the [...]

Roke Manor Research has been appointed by CESG, the Information Assurance arm of GCHQ, as the UK’s only High Assurance Internet Protocol Encryptor (HAIPE) Conformance Test Facility. All UK developed encryption devices utilising the HAIPE protocols must now be Conformance Tested by Roke before they can be approved as being “HAIPE compliant” by CESG. To [...]

iTrinegy has launched an enhanced HTTP media monitoring module for its AppQoS networked application monitoring technology, enabling organisations to identify which users are watching streaming media over their network – an activity that could be illegal if no TV licence is obtained for viewing at the premises! The AppQoS product range now offers deep packet [...]

Original Software has announced the launch of Qualify which it says was designed from the ground up to answer the growing need for QA to be less siloed. The company says Qualify has brought effective Quality Management right into the heart of the software delivery process and comes off the back of a survey which [...]

Stephen Bashada, vice-president of Teamcenter Applications at Siemens PLM Software has opened SQS’s new test automation factory at SQS India’s company headquarters in Pune in May. Siemens PLM Software is the new test automation factory’s first client. “As the market leader for independent software testing, SQS has offered its customers test automation services for business [...]

Overwhelmed software developers stand to benefit most from Agile development methods, yet often don’t have time to explore or keep up with them according to Seapine Software. But the company says that’s about to change, thanks to the its Agile Expedition, a free web-based learning series that kicks off on June 2. At a relaxed [...]