SmartBear Software
   HOME

TheInfoList



OR:

SmartBear Software is an American privately-held
information technology Information technology (IT) is the use of computers to create, process, store, retrieve, and exchange all kinds of Data (computing), data . and information. IT forms part of information and communications technology (ICT). An information te ...
company that delivers tools for application performance monitoring (APM), software development,
software testing Software testing is the act of examining the artifacts and the behavior of the software under test by validation and verification. Software testing can also provide an objective, independent view of the software to allow the business to apprecia ...
, API testing and
API An application programming interface (API) is a way for two or more computer programs to communicate with each other. It is a type of software interface, offering a service to other pieces of software. A document or standard that describes how ...
management. The company is based in Assembly Square in Somerville in the
Greater Boston Area Greater Boston is the metropolitan region of New England encompassing the municipality of Boston (the capital of the U.S. state of Massachusetts and the most populous city in New England) and its surrounding areas. The region forms the northern ar ...
. The company was founded in 2009, out of a combination of companies, including one with a similar name.


History and founding

The original Smart Bear company was founded by Jason Cohen in 2003. Insight Venture Partners acquired three companies, Smart Bear, AutomatedQA and Pragmatic Software, between 2007 and early 2009. These companies operated as AQA Holdings until being rebranded as SmartBear Software in 2010. After the rebranding, the company acquired Eviware in 2011, leading to API promoter and SoapUI's founder, Ole Lensmar, joining the company. He later served as chief technology officer (CTO) of SmartBear. That same year, the company acquired APM vendor AlertSite. In 2013 SmartBear acquired Spanish APM vendor Lucierna. SmartBear then acquired the Open Source Community Swagger in 2015 and its founder, Tony Tam, joined the company as head of products for Swagger and the commercial version of Swagger, SwaggerHub. In 2016, SmartBear acquired CrossBrowserTesting.com (CBT) and Ken Hamric, founder of CBT, joined the company as general manager of CrossBrowserTesting.com. In 2017,
Francisco Partners Francisco Partners is an American private equity firm focused exclusively on investments in technology and technology-enabled services businesses. Founded in August 1999 and based in San Francisco with offices in London and New York City, Francis ...
acquired a majority stake in SmartBear Software.


AutomatedQA

AutomatedQA Corporation specialized in automated
software testing Software testing is the act of examining the artifacts and the behavior of the software under test by validation and verification. Software testing can also provide an objective, independent view of the software to allow the business to apprecia ...
tools and developer tools. It was founded in 1999 in
Las Vegas Las Vegas (; Spanish for "The Meadows"), often known simply as Vegas, is the 25th-most populous city in the United States, the most populous city in the state of Nevada, and the county seat of Clark County. The city anchors the Las Vegas ...
,
Nevada Nevada ( ; ) is a state in the Western region of the United States. It is bordered by Oregon to the northwest, Idaho to the northeast, California to the west, Arizona to the southeast, and Utah to the east. Nevada is the 7th-most extensive, ...
. The company's first product was AQtime, a binary instrumentation profiler to help optimize performance for
applications Application may refer to: Mathematics and computing * Application software, computer software designed to help the user to perform specific tasks ** Application layer, an abstraction layer that specifies protocols and interface methods used in a c ...
developed with
Microsoft Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology corporation producing computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and related services headquartered at the Microsoft Redmond campus located in Redmond, Washin ...
and Borland compilers. It was released on November 12, 1999. The first version of TestComplete, AutomatedQA's automated software testing tool, was released in December 2000. In 2004, AutomatedQA released Automated Build Studio, an automated build management and continuous integration application. AQtrace, a new product by AutomatedQA, was released in June, 2008. AutomatedQA had received an SD Times 100 award three times, including the most recent SD Times 100 list for 2008. The SD Times 100 award honors the top 100 leaders and innovators in the software development industry as judged by ''SD Times'' magazine. AutomatedQA remained an independent subsidiary of SmartBear from 2007 to 2010 until being merged into SmartBear Software.


Company

SmartBear is based in the
Greater Boston Area Greater Boston is the metropolitan region of New England encompassing the municipality of Boston (the capital of the U.S. state of Massachusetts and the most populous city in New England) and its surrounding areas. The region forms the northern ar ...
and has U.S. offices in
Tennessee Tennessee ( , ), officially the State of Tennessee, is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States. Tennessee is the 36th-largest by area and the 15th-most populous of the 50 states. It is bordered by Kentucky to th ...
, and
Florida Florida is a state located in the Southeastern region of the United States. Florida is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the northwest by Alabama, to the north by Georgia, to the east by the Bahamas and Atlantic Ocean, and to ...
. SmartBear also has offices and development centers in Ireland, India, Finland, Poland, Melbourne, and Sweden. Frank Roe became chief executive in March, 2020. SmartBear Software offers products in the following categories:
API An application programming interface (API) is a way for two or more computer programs to communicate with each other. It is a type of software interface, offering a service to other pieces of software. A document or standard that describes how ...
lifecycle, automated testing, behaviour-driven development (BDD), test management, performance testing, mobile testing, monitoring,
code review Code review (sometimes referred to as peer review) is a software quality assurance activity in which one or several people check a program mainly by viewing and reading parts of its source code, and they do so after implementation or as an interr ...
, and three open-source tools. The company had mentions in the trade press. * Named the 2020SD Times 100: 'Best in Show' in Software Development for "APIs and Integration 2020" * Named one of the 100 Best Places to Work in Boston 2020 by BuiltIn * Named BostInno 2019 ‘50 on Fire’ Company * Zephyr was named by SoftwareWorld as one of the Top 10 Automated Software Testing Tools in 2019 * Awarded the 2019 SDTimes 100 Best in Show in Software Development * Won a TrustRadius 2019 Top Rated Award for SoapUI Pro in the Functional Testing category * TestComplete won the Devies Award for Best in App Analytics/Testing * AlertSite Received the FinTech Award from Finance Monthly * Named in Top Places To Work 2013 by
The Boston Globe ''The Boston Globe'' is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts. The newspaper has won a total of 27 Pulitzer Prizes, and has a total circulation of close to 300,000 print and digital subscribers. ''The Boston Glob ...
* Employee's Choice Awards – Best Medium-Sized Company to Work 2014 by
Glassdoor Glassdoor is an American website where current and former employees anonymously review companies. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, it has additional offices in Chicago, Dublin, London, and São Paulo. Glassdoor also allows its users to ...
* Internet Retailer Top 500 Guide recognizes AlertSite as No. 2 on the list


References


External links

* {{Official website, www.smartbear.com Cloud applications Cloud computing providers Software companies based in Massachusetts Software performance management Technology companies based in the Boston area Software companies established in 2009 Companies based in Middlesex County, Massachusetts Somerville, Massachusetts 2009 establishments in Massachusetts Software companies of the United States