Tricentis
Tricentis is a software testing company founded in 2007 and headquartered in Vienna, Austria and Mountain View, California. It provides software testing automation and software quality assurance products for enterprise software.[1][2]
Industry | Software, information technology |
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Founded | 2007 |
Founder | Wolfgang Platz, (founder and Chief Strategy Officer); Franz Fuchsberger (co-founder) |
Headquarters | Vienna, Austria, Mountain View, California |
Key people | Sandeep Johri (CEO); Dave Keil (COO); Grigori Melnik (CPO); Brent Remai (CMO) |
Products | Tricentis Tosca qTest LiveCompare Flood.io |
Services | Software testing, software quality assurance |
Website | tricentis |
History
Tricentis was founded in 2007 by Wolfgang Platz and Franz Fuchsberger, extending their previous consulting business into a software company.[3] The same year, it opened an office in Germany. Tricentis opened further offices in Switzerland in 2008, Benelux in 2009, and London and Sydney in 2010. In 2011, the company entered the US markets and opened offices in New Jersey and Los Altos.[4] By 2018, the company had extended its presence in Asia-Pacific, and had over 800[5] customers.[6] The company is headquartered in Vienna, Austria, and Mountain View, California.
In 2000, Platz developed Tricentis Tosca Explorer, the predecessor to the core component of Tricentis Tosca. By 2006 Tricentis Tosca Commander was developed and launched into the market as the central GUI for the product.[7][8] The product has since been extended to cover risk-based testing, test design, SAP testing, API testing, service virtualization, exploratory testing, load testing, and test data management in addition to GUI testing.[6]
In 2012, Tricentis raised $9 million in early-stage investment from Viewpoint, now part of Kennet Partners.[9] In 2013, Sandeep Johri became the CEO.[9] Previously Johri had worked as a VP of HP's cloud business and served on the board of several startups.[2]
In 2017, Tricentis received $165 million in series B funding from Insight Venture Partners.[10][11][12][13][14]
The company's customers include Allianz, BMW, Starbucks, Deutsche Bank, Toyota, and UBS.[9][2]
In July 2020, Tricentis entered a partnership with SAP, an enterprise software corporation. Under the partnership, the Tricentis continuous testing platform will be the testing platform for the SAP Solution Extensions program[15] and is being integrated into the SAP Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) portfolio. The Tricentis tools use machine learning algorithms to identify potential integration risks between SAP and third-party applications.[16] They are also used to automate end-to-end testing across SAP and associated applications.[15]
Acquisitions
In 2017, Tricentis acquired Flood.io, an on-demand load testing platform.[17][18][19][20][21] In 2018, Tricentis merged with QASymphony, a test management software company[22] and acquired Q-up test data management.[23]
In 2019, Tricentis acquired IntelliCorp's change impact analysis for SAP product LiveCompare, as well as LiveModel and LiveInterface.[24] Also in 2019, Tricentis acquired TestProject, a community-powered test automation platform.[25] TestProject is built on the open-source test automation tools Selenium and Appium, and uses AI-based matching to automatically analyze applications and recommend add-ons to enhance testing. [26]
In January 2020, Tricentis acquired SpecFlow, which allows developers to define, manage, and execute human-readable tests using behavior-driven development (BDD).[27]
Services
Tricentis provides international services to several industries including the financial, commerce, insurance, healthcare, telecommunications, logistics and transports, utilities, and software industries.[28]
In addition, it provides training and consulting services in the areas of software quality assurance. These services include programs related to test automation and transformation.[29]
Products
Tricentis' main products include Tricentis Tosca, qTest, LiveCompare, Flood,[30][31] and Tricentis Test Automation for ServiceNow.[32] Tosca is a continuous testing tool that combines multiple aspects of software testing (test case design, test automation, test data design and generation, and analytics) to test GUIs and APIs from a business perspective.[33] LiveCompare is a change impact analysis tool that uses AI to detect potential risks within SAP ecosystems.[30] Flood is a load testing platform that runs globally-distributed performance tests.[19] Tricentis Test Automation for ServiceNow is a testing tool that is deployed on the ServiceNow platform. [32]
References
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- Cohan, Peter. "Startup Raises $165 Million To Take Microsoft, HPE Customers In $34 Billion Market". Forbes. Retrieved 2020-08-24.
- "L&T Infotech, Tricentis enter into strategic partnership". The Economic Times. 2014-02-22.
- "Cigniti Partners with Tricentis to Deliver Best-In-Class Enterprise Software Testing Solutions". BusinessWire, India. 2015-03-24.
- Beilin, Holly (2018-06-21). "Atlanta Software Testing Company Merges With International Industry Leader". Hypepotamus. Retrieved 2020-08-18.
- DevOps Chat: Continuous Testing with Sandeep Johri, CEO, Tricentis by Alan Shimel, DevOps.com, March 9, 2018]
- "L&T Infotech partners with Tricentis". The Times of India. 2014-02-22.
- "L&T Infotech, Tricentis form tie-up". Business Line. 2014-02-21.
- "Austrian software firm raises $165 million to take on HPE and IBM in testing". Reuters. 2017-01-23.
- "Tricentis Scoops up Mega Cash to Help Enterprises Test Software" by Ben Kepes, NetworkWorld
- "Insight Venture Partners Invests $165 Million in Automated Testing Startup Tricentis" by Ron Miller, TechCrunch
- "Austrian software Firm Raises $165 Million to Take on HPE and IBM in testing" by Ron Miller, Reuters
- "Tricentis Hauls in huge $165M Funding Round to Automate Software Testing" by Ron Miller, Reuters
- "Automated software testing company Tricentis raises $165 million" by Paul Sawyers, Venture Beat
- "SAP continues continuous testing continuity". ComputerWeekly. Retrieved 2020-08-27.
- "SAP Aligns With Tricentis on Continuous Testing". DevOps. 2020-07-30. Retrieved 2020-08-27.
- Tricentis makes its first acquisition to help developers build more scalable apps, by Maria Deutscher, Silicon Angle July 27, 2017
- Tricentis Acquires Flood IO, Scaling Open Source On-Demand Load Testing for DevOps, by Parker Yates, DevOps.com July 27, 2017
- Tricentis acquires load testing provider Flood IO, by Christina Cardoza, SD Times July 27, 2017
- Automated software testing company Tricentis acquires load-testing platform Flood IO, by Paul Sawers, VenureBeat July 27, 2017
- Why Tricentis acquired Flood IO, by Christian Hargrave, App Developer Magazine July 28, 2017
- "Tricentis Acquires QASymphony: The Age of Continuous Testing Is Upon Us" by Alan Shimel, DevOps.com
- "Tricentis merges with software testing company QASymphony". SD Times. 2018-06-20. Retrieved 2020-08-20.
- "Tricentis Adds New Capability for Accelerating Digital Transformation with SAP Applications" by Deborah Schalm, DevOps.com
- Orbach, Meir (2019-08-11). "Tricentis Acquires Software Testing Startup TestProject". CTECH. Retrieved 2020-08-20.
- "SD Times news digest". SD Times. 2019-08-08. Retrieved 2020-10-01.
- "Tricentis acquires behavior-driven development company SpecFlow". SD Times. 2020-01-16. Retrieved 2020-09-21.
- "Tricentis – Groundbreaking Approach To Automated Enterprise Software Testing". Superbcrew. 2016-02-09.
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- "How McKesson Ensures Business Continuity While Accelerating Innovation". SAPinsider. 2020-07-14. Retrieved 2020-09-03.
- "The Forrester Wave™: Continuous Functional Test Automation Suites, Q2 2020". www.forrester.com. Retrieved 2020-09-03.
- "Tricentis Extends Testing Reach to ServiceNow Applications". DevOps.com. 2020-09-14. Retrieved 2020-10-06.
- Value-Based Coverage Measurement in Requirements-Based Testing: Lessons Learned from an Approach Implemented in the TOSCA Testsuite, 2012 38th Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications by R. Ramler, T. Kopetzy, W. Platz, 2012 38th Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications October 11, 2012.