SOASTA, Inc. is an American subsidiary of

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that provides services to test

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s and

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s. It is a provider of cloud-based testing services, and created a browser-based website testing product. Website tests include

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 ...

software performance testing In software quality assurance, performance testing is in general a testing practice performed to determine how a system performs in terms of responsiveness and stability under a particular workload. It can also serve to investigate, measure, va ...

functional testing Functional testing is a quality assurance (QA) processPrasad, Dr. K.V.K.K. (2008) ''ISTQB Certification Study Guide'', Wiley, , p. vi and a type of black-box testing that bases its test cases on the specifications of the software component unde ...

and

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testing. SOASTA provides cloud website testing with its product CloudTest, which simulates thousands of users visiting a website simultaneously using the

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(EC2) service. SOASTA allows customers to use predefined tests or create customized tests to automatically test their web applications. The SOASTA platform further enables digital businesses to gain continuous performance insight into real user experiences on mobile and web devices in real time and at scale, using

real user monitoring Real user monitoring (RUM) is a passive monitoring technology that records all user interaction with a website or client interacting with a server or cloud-based application. Monitoring actual user interaction with a website or an application is i ...

technology coupled with its mPulse product. SOASTA serves

mobile application testing Mobile application testing is a process by which application software developed for handheld mobile devices is tested for its functionality, usability and consistency. Mobile application testing can be an automated or manual type of testing. Mob ...

needs through its product TouchTest, which provides functional mobile app testing automation for multitouch, gesture-based mobile applications.

History

SOASTA was founded by Ken Gardner and is based in

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. Tom Lounibos has been

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since September 2006. In September 2008, SOASTA raised

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$6.4 million in financing from Formative Ventures, Canaan Partners, and The Entrepreneur's Fund. In December 2008, SOASTA announced an alliance with

SAVVIS Savvis is a subsidiary company of Lumen Technologies (formerly CenturyLink) that sells managed hosting and colocation services headquartered in Town and Country, Missouri. The company owns more than 50 data centers spread across North Americ ...

to provide SAVVIS customer's with SOASTA's cloud testing services. In the first half of 2010, SOASTA was selected by

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as a “Top 50” Venture-backed company, by AlwaysOn as an OnDemand Top 100 Winner, and by the Red Herring as a Top 100 North America Tech Startup. In October 2012, SOASTA became a Professional Services partner with ProtoTest. In April 2017, Akamai completed a purchase of SOASTA in an all-cash transaction.

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