Tricentis is a software testing company founded in 2007 and headquartered in

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. It provides

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 ...

automation and

software quality assurance Software quality assurance (SQA) is a means and practice of monitoring all software engineering processes, methods, and work products to ensure compliance against defined standards. It may include ensuring conformance to standards or models, suc ...

products for

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History

Tricentis was founded in 2007 by Wolfgang Platz and Franz Fuchsberger, extending their previous consulting business into a software company. 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. By 2018, the company had extended its presence in Asia-Pacific. The company is headquartered in Austin, Texas. 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. The product has since been extended to cover

risk-based testing Risk-based testing (RBT) is a type of software testing that functions as an organizational principle used to prioritize the tests of features and functions in software, based on the risk of failure, the function of their importance and likelihood ...

, test design,

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API testing API testing is a type of software testing that involves testing application programming interfaces (APIs) directly and as part of integration testing to determine if they meet expectations for functionality, reliability, performance, and security ...

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exploratory testing Exploratory testing is an approach to software testing that is concisely described as simultaneous learning, test design and test execution. Cem Kaner, who coined the term in 1984, defines exploratory testing as "a style of software testing that e ...

load testing Load testing is the process of putting demand on a structure or system and measuring its response. Software load testing The term ''load testing'' is used in different ways in the professional software testing community. ''Load testing'' gen ...

, and

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management in addition to

GUI testing In software engineering, graphical user interface testing is the process of testing a product's graphical user interface (GUI) to ensure it meets its specifications. This is normally done through the use of a variety of test cases. Test case ge ...

.DevOps Chat: Continuous Testing with Sandeep Johri, CEO, Tricentis
by Alan Shimel, DevOps.com, March 9, 2018] In 2012, Tricentis raised $9 million in early-stage investment from Viewpoint, now part of

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. In 2013,

Sandeep Johri Sandeep Johri (born December 20, 1962) is the former CEO of Tricentis, an IT testing software company. Career Johri joined Tricentis in 2013 as CEO. Before joining Tricentis, Johri served as the COO of Appcelerator, an open source mobile appli ...

became the CEO. In 2017, Tricentis received $165 million in series B funding from

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. In July 2020, Tricentis entered a partnership with

, an enterprise software corporation. Under the partnership, the Tricentis continuous testing platform will be the testing platform for the SAP Solution Extensions program 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. They are also used to automate end-to-end testing across SAP and associated applications. In April 2021, Kevin Thompson became the CEO and chairman of the board.

Acquisitions

In 2017, Tricentis acquired

Flood.io Flood IO is a load testing platform that executes globally-distributed performance tests from open source tools, including JMeter, Gatling, and Selenium. It also runs test plans written with Ruby JMeter, an open source RubyGem. Tricentis Fl ...

, an on-demand load testing platform.Tricentis makes its first acquisition to help developers build more scalable apps
by Maria Deutscher, Silicon Angle July 27, 2017Tricentis Acquires Flood IO, Scaling Open Source On-Demand Load Testing for DevOps
by Parker Yates, DevOps.com July 27, 2017Tricentis acquires load testing provider Flood IO
by Christina Cardoza, SD Times July 27, 2017Automated software testing company Tricentis acquires load-testing platform Flood IO
by Paul Sawers, VenureBeat July 27, 2017Why Tricentis acquired Flood IO
by Christian Hargrave, App Developer Magazine July 28, 2017 In 2018, Tricentis merged with QASymphony, a test management software company and acquired Q-up test data management. In 2019, Tricentis acquired IntelliCorp's change impact analysis for SAP product LiveCompare, as well as LiveModel and LiveInterface. Also in 2019, Tricentis acquired TestProject, a community-powered test automation platform. 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. In January 2020, Tricentis acquired

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, which allows developers to define, manage, and execute human-readable tests using behavior-driven development (BDD). In March 2021, Tricentis acquired

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, a performance testing tool for modern and legacy technologies including

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, and cloud native apps.

Services

Tricentis provides international services to several industries including the financial, commerce, insurance, healthcare, telecommunications, logistics and transports, utilities, and software industries. 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.

Products

Tricentis' main products include

Tricentis Tosca Tricentis Tosca is a software testing tool that is used to automate end-to-end testing for software applications. It is developed by Tricentis. Tricentis Tosca combines multiple aspects of software testing (test case design, test automation, ...

, qTest, LiveCompare,

NeoLoad NeoLoad (Load testing, load and Software performance testing, stress testing) is an automated performance testing platform for enterprise organizations continuously testing from APIs to applications. It provides testers and developers automatic t ...

, and Tricentis Test Automation for ServiceNow. Tosca is a

continuous testing Continuous testing is the process of executing automated tests as part of the software delivery pipeline to obtain immediate feedback on the business risks associated with a software release candidate.

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.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. LiveCompare is a change impact analysis tool that uses AI to detect potential risks within SAP ecosystems. NeoLoad is an automated performance testing platform for enterprise organizations continuously testing from APIs to applications. Tricentis Test Automation for ServiceNow is a testing tool that is deployed on the ServiceNow platform.

References

External links

* {{official website, http://www.tricentis.com/ Development software companies Software companies of Austria Information technology consulting firms of the United States Software companies based in California Software testing tools Graphical user interface testing Software companies of the United States Software companies established in 2007