Eggplant Software, Inc., was a

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company. Eggplant was a global company that served more than 650 enterprise customers in over 30 countries. Eggplant had offices in London, Boulder, Colorado,

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, Germany, with additional development centers and regional offices around the world. Eggplant was acquired by

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Products

Eggplant's products cover: *

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, AI-driven functional and usability testing * Performance testing * Robotic Process Automation (RPA) *

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( real user and synthetic). Many of these products work together. For example, real user journeys from monitoring can be used to build journeys for functional testing.

History

The Eggplant software test automation product was originally developed and sold beginning in 2002 by Redstone Software, a subsidiary of

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. In 2008 the Eggplant software (and associated

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scripting language) was acquired by a group of investors who created a new company called TestPlant to continue the promotion and development of Eggplant. It was created to help organisations put users at the centre of software testing to create amazing digital experiences and drive user adoption, conversion, and retention. After an initial round of

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($100,000), the company was able to invest in developing technologies ─ predominantly the Digital Automation Intelligence (DAI) suite ─ which interacts with software exactly like a real user does. In 2018, the company rebranded as Eggplant to align with expansion and growth in the US market. On 28 March 2018 Eggplant announced the acquisition of NCC Group's Web Performance Division. On 25 June 2020, Eggplant was acquired by

for $330 million from the

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Research

Eggplant has been named a Leader in

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's 2019 and 2018

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for software test automation, and a leader in the Forrester Wave: Omnichannel Functional Test Automation, Q3 2018.

Awards

* 2017 SD Times 100: Best in Show in Software Development * Testplant wins third Queen's Award for Enterprisehttps://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/518539/2016-winners-of-the-queen_s-awards-for-enterprise-press-book.pdf, p.28

References

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