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Network World 06.11.13
I didn't make my career as a tester, but it is something I’ve done and returned to over the course of my professional life. I’ve dabbled in many roles in software – tester, product manager, project manager, program manager, customer service director, and just plain management overhead. But testing has always been a draw for me and something I often still dabble in after-hours on personal projects.
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Retail Online Integration 06.10.13
In this video from the 2013 Internet Retailer Conference & Exhibition, Joe Keenan , managing editor of Retail Online Integration, interviews Michael Hines , vice president of e-commerce and technology for Jones Group Inc. Hines discusses the value of testing and monitoring your e-commerce site (including mobile versions) in developing an optimized shopping experience for visitors.
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The MetroWest Daily News 06.02.13
SmartBear Software, a Beverly-based provider of software quality tools used by more than one million developers and testers worldwide, recently named Diane A. Albano of Sudbury executive vice president and chief revenue officer.
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Tools Journal 05.30.13
SmartBear, continuing its commitment to make free and low-cost tools available to users, has introduced a Free and a low cost Pro version of peer code review tool, CodeReview for SoapUI Community and beyond. CodeReviewer allows development teams with up to 10 members to code review at no cost. For teams of up to 25 developers, CodeReviewer Pro is available with extensive code review functionality and full technical support.
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Boston Business Journal 05.30.13
SmartBear Software Inc. of Beverly, Mass., has released its most recent advancement in code reviewing technology. The company, a developer of software testing tools, rolled out two product solutions including CodeReviewer - a product that allows small development teams (with up to 10 members) to conduct no cost code reviews.
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Dr. Dobb's 05.30.13
SmartBear is making its code review technology available in two new solutions formats: one for the SoapUI community, which is currently estimated to sit at over one million users — and one positioned for small companies and development teams.
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ProgrammableWeb 05.29.13
Last week, for the first time I had the opportunity to attend the Glue conference in Broomfield, CO. An aptly named conference, Glue’s mission is to provide a technical forum for web application builders, architects, and integrators to talk about the various technologies that stick together to make a web platform and its associated applications.
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SD Times 05.29.13
SmartBear Software, provider of software quality tools used by more than one million developers and testers worldwide, today is making its simple, efficient, award-winning code review technology available in two new solutions for the SoapUI community of over one million users, as well as small companies and development teams. CodeReviewer allows development teams with up to 10 members to code review at no cost.
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Network World 05.28.13
Relating Legos to open data, APIs, and quality software.
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MyCustomer.com 05.24.13
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Network World 05.20.13
With so many college students looking for good jobs after graduation, it’s no wonder that the world of internships has become increasingly competitive. Companies are often looking for better ways to qualify their interns as well as give them more meaningful work to do while they are inside the organization.
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Network World 05.15.13
Why is this barrier between testers and developers so hard to overcome? Shouldn’t we all be on the stage together talking about real-life experiences where testers and developers helped build great products – together? Shouldn’t we be sitting together running tests and debugging code to create the most beautiful software out there?
Ultimately, if we don’t overcome this cultural divide, how can we ever expect to do “real” Agile testing with testers and developers delivering great quality to our users - together?
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Salem Business News 05.08.13
Diane Albano was named executive vice president and chief revenue officer at SmartBear Software, a Beverly-based provider of software tools to developers and testers. Albano will work to expand SmartBear’s reach to developers, testers and operations professionals worldwide, providing the most comprehensive portfolio of software quality tools available.
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Network World 05.06.13
Rather than spend the time training new hires, why don't colleges let students learn how to test software before they enter the workforce?
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Tools Journal 05.02.13
SmartBear has recently announced the availability of AlertSite for API Monitoring, a free tool that will empower the SoapUI, open source community and other developers to root out APIs that affect software quality. Featuring SoapUI benefits, enterprise-class API monitoring capabilities and an intuitive user interface, the tool enables both developers and end users to easily monitor SOAP and REST APIs with a single solution. The SoapUI community can also reuse tests for deep API monitoring in production in a few clicks eliminating the need to invest precious resources on developing new monitoring scripts by re-purposing test efforts.
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Retail Online Integration 04.30.13
In this month's edition of SmartBear Software's Retailer Web Performance Report Card, the website performances of Nike and Blockbuster are examined.
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Network World 04.23.13
We’re all used to seeing splash screens pop up inside our favorite applications, promoting new features or products, making announcements about upcoming events, providing a pro tip or two, touting an API… wait. What? Touting an API? On a splash screen? That’s what collaboration innovator
Smartsheet did with their latest release, in a move that surprised even an API lover like myself.
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Network World 04.17.13
Did Jack Dorsey ever expect people to use Twitter to launch revolutions, broadcast breaking news, or, as in Boston this week, offer up their
homes/hearts/money/prayers to victims?
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Network World 04.15.13
Wired published an interesting article earlier this year - "
The End of Web, Search and Computers as we know it" – in which David Gelernter predicts the addition of a time dimension to all information we consume on the internet; his future is made of “lifestreams,” which continuously pull and aggregate evolving data from different sources into something we consume in an adapted reading device or software.
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API UX 04.09.13
Ultimately one of the primary reasons for providing metadata is for easing the adoption of an API – be it via generated documentation, code or examples – and as such it has great merit. Reading through the above might have opened your eyes a bit but perhaps not made things easier for you; should you use metadata at all? Which format seems like your safest bet?
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Network World 04.08.13
Our roundup of intriguing new products from companies such as Microsoft, Amazon and Citrix
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Dr. Dobb's 04.05.13
Software quality tools company SmartBear has released its WebLoadUI load testing tools for web applications. Suitable for complex app testing, this stress and load testing tool offers connection to the one million plus developers in the SoapUI open source community.
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Network World 04.03.13
Ultimately, this post holds an honest intention to encourage, to give credit to, and to put focus on the passion and drive of wheel re-inventors and their organizations. These are folks who look at something and think “We can do that better,” then go to great lengths to prove it. Thanks to them, we are now cruising down highways in electric-powered convertibles listening to streaming DJ sets from our favorite record label.
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Tools Journal 04.02.13
SmartBear AQtime Pro, the performance profiler and memory allocation debugger that can run stand alone or can be integrated into Microsoft Visual Studio and Embarcadero RAD Studio, has announced some major enhancements with its latest release.
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Huffington Post 03.31.13
We've recently launched our new
Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership (CEL). The Center will serve not only to educate Gordon students about the business of entrepreneurship, it will also be the hub for a range of opportunities in which students will generate innovative solutions to real-world challenges. Itself the practical application of a great idea, the CEL is the brainchild of Gordon College trustee and successful entrepreneur Joe Krivickas, CEO of
SmartBear. Joe's own passions for both higher education and entrepreneurial leadership have strengthened and refined the Center's purpose as a catalyst for ingenuity. Far from being an academic exercise, the CEL at Gordon will give our students practical, meaningful outlets for the holistic thinking skills they acquire here.
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The Press-Enterprise 03.28.13
Americans are on the go. Many business owners and consumers are not spending their time sitting in front of their computers anymore. More often than not, people are using their smart phones to read their email, interact on social networking sites and running searches on the Internet.
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ProgrammableWeb 03.28.13
Another month – another API event! This time in my hometown Stockholm – what more could you ask for? Spring weather perhaps? We may have to wait for better weather until the fall conference, which will feature talks from ProgrammableWeb’s own Adam DuVander and John Musser. For now lets recap what we saw at the inaugural Nordic API event.
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SD Times 03.27.13
Sergei Sokolov, vice president of product management, testing and performance at SmartBear Software, said he believes quality begins with coding practices and code review, which he called “a cornerstone of quality.”
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Retail Online Integration 03.26.13
In this month's edition of SmartBear Software's Retailer Web Performance Report Card, I once again analyze and highlight recent website performance for the top 50 retailers. With the help of SmartBear's AlertSite, I've looked at website response times, accounting for elapsed time for all website objects including images, JavaScript, Flash and third-party objects, collected from various dispersed locations in the first two weeks of March. I also looked at the all-important website availability percentage that measures site accessibility. The lucky (and not so lucky) highlighted retailers this month are Target and J.Crew, respectively.
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Network World 03.26.13
So, an interesting thing happened to me recently. I was getting a pitch about a new product from a well-known large enterprise and the marketing person said the following: "We are members of the 2012 API Billionaire’s Club." Huh? The product had nothing to do with APIs and she had no reason to know me as someone who talks about APIs. It was part of her marketing pitch about the value of the company.
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Mashable 03.22.13
According to research by Pew Internet, 55% of U.S. adult cell phone owners use their mobile phones to access the internet, nearly double the rate from three years ago. This means that more than half of your prospective customers may interact with your business while they’re on the go. Mobile users are also becoming more engaged: a study by digital ad management company Marin Software revealed that its clients saw Google paid-search clicks on mobile devices rise from 14.2% to 23.4% over the course of 2012.
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Network World 03.20.13
Between the AST’s Black Box Software Testing and a crowd-sourced, community-based program called Weekend Testing, there are other places for software testers to hone their skills and share their knowledge. All we have to do is get the word out and make it sexy. We got Bon Jovi for the second part – now we just need to accomplish the first part.
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Network World 03.12.13
To me, the most important aspects of Agile are those of collaboration and communication; cross-functional teams working closely together, preferring interaction to documentation. To succeed, quality has to be an integrated part of this process. QA engineers are essential participants in the very first discussions, at sprint planning meetings and at the daily standups. They continuously scrutinize the product to assess quality issues and plan testing activities proactively, be it with UX designers (usability testing), developers (code reviews, TDD/BDD, unit-testing) and operations (load and security testing).
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InfoQ 03.12.13
Lorinda Brandon, director of solutions strategy at Smartbear Software reported on the debate asking whether governance and innovation "had to be enemies." Lorinda notes that among the diversity of attendees at the conference there is still the same old gap between the enterprise and the start-up that we have come to expect. "For as long as I've been in the industry, the difference has always been around governance and process vs rapid innovation."
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Network World 03.11.13
Our roundup of intriguing new products from companies such as HP and Check Point.
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Tools Journal 03.07.13
Smartbear the leading provider of Software Testing, Development and Web Monitoring Tools recently announced the availability of Collaborator, a review tool for project deliverables beyond the code. Collaborator is built on the foundation of CodeCollaborator a full-feature, easy to use code review tool for developers that can be used to review code in any text-based programming language.
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Dr. Dobb's 03.06.13
SmartBear has extended its code review tool and testing product family this week with its peer review-focused Collaborator product. Described as an extension to the already-existing CodeCollaborator, SmartBear says it wants to incorporate team review from all members of the software project team including product managers/owners, QA, support, documentation, and marketing by enabling them to share, edit, and comment on documents in a shared environment.
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Network World 03.05.13
You might have noticed the recent publicity blitz on behalf of code.org. Or, you might be living under a rock. Code.org was formed in January 2013 with the goal of providing young people with mentorship and education in the computer science industry. There are a number of organizations like code.org – Girls Who Code, coderdojo.com, codeacademy.com, to name a few - and their goal is admirable.
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SD Times 03.05.13
SmartBear today is doing for documents what it has done for code collaboration. With the release of Collaborator, SmartBear gives organizations the ability to share documents among developers, business analysts, project managers and more, for annotation and comment.
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Marketing Tech Blog 03.04.13
It seams every time I meet with a good friend, I hear about a new tool that makes life easier. I had coffee with David Grigsby, a .NET integration monster who works for DocuSign. David and I were discussing SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) versus REST APIs (that’s how we roll). I tend to favor REST APIs because they’re easier to visualize and develop a chunk at a time with – as well as reduced issues with authentication. David, as a .NET guru, loves SOAP since it provides much more complex operations and opportunities. David told me the insider secret to working with SOAP application programming interfaces (APIs)…SoapUI.
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Network World 03.04.13
Release cycles are getting shorter - from months to weeks to days and even hours - allowing companies to be more competitive than ever (or at least to think they are). To a large extent, the adoption of both Agile and DevOps practices is making this possible. Agile is bridging the gap between business and development, and DevOps is enabling development to push new features into production continuously and reliably.
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Forbes 03.01.13
I recently agreed to do a short series of blog posts for SmartBear, the software quality testing folks. What I noticed as I researched and poked around their social channels was this willingness to take risks and have fun, even if others will find it goofy. On their YouTube channel, I found videos with Darth Vader (when his breathing apparatus has buggy software) as well as one with the “Harlem Shake.” Their Golden Paw Awards highlighting best and worst technology with catchy titles like “Spork” award or “Best Thing Since Sliced Bread” made me chuckle. These are, of course, shared in social circles. If you are not having at least some fun with social media, then why do it?
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API Evangelist 02.27.13
There is a great post by Lorinda Brandon (@lindybrandon) of SmartBear on ProgrammableWeb today called "Governance vs. Innovation: Do They Have to be Enemies?". She continues a conversation, from API Strategy & Practice around the word "governance", and how in the API space, this is often considered a bad word.
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API Evangelist 02.26.13
During the API Strategy & Practice conference in NYC last week, I had the pleasure of meeting the SmartBear team, who share a similar perspective of the space, resulting in them launching a new suite of free tools that will help you develop, test and monitor while building API driven software.
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TestNewsOnline 02.20.13
Or, why testers and developers are not the same in practice, but are equally valuable. Over the last year Ole Lensmar has had the opportunity to attend a number of extremely interesting and mind-expanding conferences focusing on emerging and somewhat disruptive technologies and companies: APIs, mobile, cloud, big data – the works. Coming from a quality background, it has stricken him how little focus these companies give to testing. They talk plenty about continuous integration, agile methodologies, user groups and continuous deployment – but testing? Nope. Why is that?
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Retail Online Integration 02.18.13
It's time again for the monthly edition of the Retailer Web Performance Report Card, SmartBear Software's ROI Report column that highlights website performance for the top 50 retailers. With the help of SmartBear's AlertSite, I looked specifically at response times and availability for big-box retailers Wal-Mart and Home Depot, as well as wholesale warehouse giant Costco. Despite relying heavily on brick-and-mortar locations, these retailers need to keep online shoppers a priority. The stress of managing busy holiday web traffic is over and the industry is in transition before spring, but website monitoring and attention to online visitors shouldn't take a break.
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ProgrammableWeb 02.12.13
API growth over the past few years has increased exponentially. There are new APIs launched every week and breaking news about APIs every day. There have been a lot of great articles written about APIs and the API Economy. This is a round up of essential API articles that you may have missed.
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Product Design & Development 02.12.13
Remember when you were willing to listen to the horrible static ringing of the dial-up tone, perfectly content to wait five minutes for Myst to load, and recieved email so infrequently that "You've Got Mail!" didn't make your ears bleed?
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IEEE USA Today's Engineer 02.09.13
Oh, what a difference two years makes. When Today's Engineer last looked at software engineering careers in March 2011, the industry was as hot as hot could be. Twenty-three months later, software engineering is even hotter, with more demand for talented professionals than ever, but nowhere close to enough people to fill all of the open positions.
Oh, what a difference two years makes. When
Today's Engineer last looked at software engineering careers in March 2011, the industry was
as hot as hot could be. Twenty-three months later, software engineering is even hotter, with more demand for talented professionals than ever, but nowhere close to enough people to fill all of the open positions. - See more at: http://www.todaysengineer.org/2013/Feb/career-focus.asp#sthash.NfcxqDBh.dpuf
Oh, what a difference two years makes. When
Today's Engineer last looked at software engineering careers in March 2011, the industry was
as hot as hot could be. Twenty-three months later, software engineering is even hotter, with more demand for talented professionals than ever, but nowhere close to enough people to fill all of the open positions. - See more at: http://www.todaysengineer.org/2013/Feb/career-focus.asp#sthash.NfcxqDBh.dpuf
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eWeek 02.07.13
SmartBear, which makes software quality and performance tools, polled hundreds of software developers and testers to come up with a ranking of the best—and worst—technology-related issues of 2012. The list culminated in SmartBear's first annual Golden Paw Awards, which look at the year's best and worst in software quality. Software professionals around the world voted for their favorites and their top failures of 2012. SmartBear, based in Beverley, Mass., started more than 10 years ago making test and performance tools and continued to build up its expertise to deliver the SmartBear Quality Anywhere Platform suite of tools.
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Website Magazine 02.06.13
The Chrome Web browser is absolutely kicking the virtual snot out of every other browser (unless of course your brand caters to an aging, anti-Google audience). Google's Chrome has grown by more than 25 percent globally, and among the more technically savvy is approaching 50 percent penetration. Where there is greater demand, developers have to react to ensure a consistent, optimal experience in their applications.
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Network World 02.04.13
If you are a software development professional today, you are most likely aware of the frenzied waters of the current API industry. But, like many people, you may be unsure how to navigate those waters. It’s not surprising, really, considering how new the concept of APIs as a business strategy is. If you are trying to compete in this arena, you need to understand the market landscape in the same way you do when you are planning and developing your core products.
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eWeek 02.04.13
AlertSite, SmartBear's Website-performance-monitoring tool, now supports playback of its Web recorder, DejaClick, for the Google Chrome Web browser due to customer demand, the company said. AlertSite monitored more than 1.3 billion Web pages in 2012, according to SmartBear.
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Network World 01.23.13
Developers don’t have it easy these days. The shift to mobile is forcing them to learn a slew of new languages and tools, the shift to NoSQL requires them to give up their beloved SQL subqueries, and the cloud is encouraging them to build for distributed scalability from day one. Top that off with the realization that great APIs are crucial for your business’s success in this distributed and interconnected world, which requires that APIs not only work well, but look good too.
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TestNews Online 01.23.13
"More than one million developers, testers and operations professionals are using SmartBear tools to ensure the quality and performance of their desktop, mobile, Web and cloud-based applications,” said Joe Krivickas, CEO at SmartBear. “Increasingly, companies are seeing the competitive advantage and the importance of having the most robust, stable and well-understood APIs– a driving factor in our No. 1 testing software volume status.”
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Retail Online Integration 01.21.13
SmartBear's monthly ROI Report column, the Retailer Web Performance Report Card, kicks off 2013 by looking at how the top 50 retailers’ websites have performed for the first half of January. The holidays are over, but retailers’ websites need to operate optimally throughout the year for maximum revenue. Among the top 50 retailers for the first half of January, the benchmark average for availability was 99.78 percent, up slightly from 99.66 percent for the same period in December
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The Salem News 01.02.13
David Yaches has joined SmartBear Software in Beverly to lead the company’s strategic partner campaign as vice president of corporate development. Yaches has a successful track record spanning more than a decade in which he worked on more than 40 mergers and acquisitions, strategic alliances, and business development transactions valued at more than $500 million.
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Baseline Mag 12.24.12
Twitter commands the world’s attention during the NFL’s biggest game. Google ruffles the feathers of users with a revamped privacy policy. Facebook prompts a trading frenzy when it goes public. These are just three of the following 12 high-profile events that made for big headlines in 2012, as compiled by SmartBear, which provides quality and performance assurance tools for desktop, mobile, Web and cloud-based applications.
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Idevnews 12.19.12
SmartBear Software’s latest update brings devs continuous testing capabilities for next-gen desktop and web apps running HTML5, ASP.NET and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). TestComplete 9.1 supports Microsoft Visual Studio 2012, Windows 8 and IE 10. IDN speaks with SmartBear’s Goran Begic.
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Retail Online Integration 12.17.12
This month's Retailer Web Performance Report Card, a monthly ROI Report column by SmartBear Software, features retailers trying to capture as much holiday revenue as possible before Christmas. Through SmartBear's AlertSite, we see how online retailers’ websites perform from the end user perspective.
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Mashable 11.23.12
The Cost of Poor Web Performance
The days of dialup are long gone. Most modern Internet users expect websites to load lickety-split. For e-commerce companies, having a fast website could be the difference between success and failure. Research shows that most expect a website to load in about three seconds. If a site takes much longer, it will begin to lose its audience.
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Dr. Dobbs 11.20.12
New LoadComplete from SmartBear
SmartBear Software has launched LoadComplete 2.6 as a tool designed to load and stress test web applications on premise or from the Amazon cloud. The proposition here is "best of both worlds," i.e., the agility of on-premise deployment and, secondly, the scale of load generation from the cloud.
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Retail Online Integration 11.16.12
The Retailer Web Performance Report Card is a monthly ROI Report column by SmartBear Software that provides a performance check on the websites of some of the top 50 online retailers. It primarily benchmarks observations of response times and site availability, along with some insights. Through SmartBear's AlertSite, we can see how online retailers’ websites perform, and whatever we see, so sees the end user.
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SD Times 10.31.12
Growing Off of Software Quality
Feeling as if a part of some life-sized video game, I navigated through the Cummings Center maze. After a while, the doors to the SmartBear offices finally appeared. (Actually, they were doors to the space SmartBear will be occupying when it is completed.)
SmartBear is in the business of selling tools for software quality. The company was founded in 2003 and was rooted in peer code review. Its first product, Code Historian, let developers find changes in code files, and the company grew with its then-flagship product, CodeCollaborator. Since then, the company has undergone a complete transformation both in executive leadership and its product line, and the 2010 acquisitions of testing companies Automated QA and Pragmatic Software led to the “new” SmartBear, with an emphasis on user-centric quality life-cycle management.
SmartBear too sees mobile and Web-deployed applications as the fastest-growing segment of the development market, and believes its notion of driving software quality throughout the application life cycle positions the company to take advantage of this shift.
“Code review is an effective way of removing defects early in the process,” said Ian McLeod, SmartBear’s chief product officer. “It’s important to get it right the first time, because [software] goes out so quickly, monitoring [code] is so important.”
Another key to taking advantage of agile development, and development of applications for multiple platforms, is the ability to automate tests, something SmartBear’s broad tool suite can offer. “It’s shocking how much manual testing is still going on,” said Betty Zakheim, SmartBear's vice president of product strategy. “I mean, this is a problem that’s been solved for a while now.”
Read the full story:
http://sdt.bz/37101#ixzz2BMHEm4Up
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TMCnet.com 10.29.12
SmartBear Software announced expanded test automation support for Microsoft platforms including Microsoft Visual Studio 2012, Windows 8 and Internet Explorer 10.
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Dr. Dobbs 10.28.12
SmartBear is expanding its test automation support for Microsoft Visual Studio 2012, Windows 8, and Internet Explorer 10 in its TestComplete 9.1 release. The intention here is to create an environment for "development and continuous testing" of both web and desktop applications using WPF, ASP.NET, and HTML5 technologies.
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NerdWallet 10.26.12
It’s no secret in the e-commerce industry that more and more
purchases are being made on tablets and smartphones. But while customers see mobile device shopping as a few taps of the finger, retailers see some pressing logistical challenges. The key here, says Ken Godskind, Vice President of Monitoring Products for
SmartBear Software, a software solutions company, is to embrace the whole mobile shopping experience rather than just the checkout stage. “Ensuring that search, product detail and reviews work well from [smartphones] and that the entire shopping process is optimized for [tablets] is a key objective,” notes Godskind.
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Enterprise Systems Journal 10.23.12
Building software faster doesn't mean the software is better. What your IT organization may need is an agile quality process.
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StickyMinds.com 10.11.12
SQE's Noel Wurst got the chance to sit down at STARWEST 2012 with Ole Lensmar, Chief Architect at SmartBear. Ole discussed the differences between unit and API testing, the importance of choosing the best testing methods, and the benefits of reusing test assets.
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Retail Online Integration 10.11.12
For online retailers, the holiday season can make up 40 percent of their annual revenue. Don't let anything prevent you from getting in on the act. Consumers continue to shift more of their wallet share online during the holidays, increasing traffic year over year. Even if you're not selling directly online, traffic to your site may increase because people are searching more during this busy time. Website performance is always important, but especially important — and challenging — during the holiday season.
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StickyMinds.com 10.08.12
Websites that act like desktops, with drag-and-drop functions, on-page calculators, and other interactive features, are of great benefit to the user community, allowing users the accessibility and scalability of the web in a familiar application paradigm. However, these rich Internet applications (RIAs) pose special testing challenges. To ensure that the user experience is consistent and “bug-free,” testers must manage multiple technologies, inconsistent browser behaviors, and highly dynamic development environments.
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Professional Tester Magazine 10.01.12 10.01.12
Most software is unfinished. As long as it remains in service it is subject to change, and probably will change, in response to new requirements and newly discovered defects. Changes made before deployment are considered good because they reduce the need to make changes after deployment where they are considered bad because they can cause regression.
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The Salem News 09.19.12
Betty Zakheim joined SmartBear Software’s Beverly office as vice president of product strategy. Zakheim previously worked as an engineer and engineering manager at General Electric, Raytheon and several other firms, and as a product manager and marketing executive at InConcert, Lightbridge, and other firms. Most recently she ran her own consulting firm, Outside In Solutions. She has bachelor’s degrees in computer engineering, advertising and psychology from Syracuse University, and a master’s in computer science from Boston University.
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TMCnet 09.18.12
SmartBear Software named Betty Zakheim, a 30-year software industry veteran and former IBM/Rational, as Vice President of Product Strategy.
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Venture Beat 09.14.12
Cloud monitoring is a necessity, but the market is flooded with options. So VentureBeat asked a host of experts to cut to the chase: What are the best cloud-monitoring services out there?
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The Brand Show 09.13.12
SmartBear. Really smart bear.
Tucked into north wall of the exhibit hall was an exhibitor ready to help retailers and manufacturers focus on delighting shoppers, too. Like Nordstrom, SmartBear Sofware, Inc. knows you won’t go wrong when you focus on the user. The SmartBear approach is unusual for a software company.Competitors might get mired in wireframes and analogs, but SmartBear goes beyond the basics to help their clients deliver a better user experience. That’s what SmartBear does: Web metrics that focus on enhancing the user experience from the user’s perspective
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Dev Pro 09.04.12
Application testing is one of those check box tasks that all developers know they need to do, but some do better than others. It helps when you have a testing toolbox filled with the best tools for the job, and that what SmartBear Software promotes with the latest release of its flagship software testing suite, TestComplete 9
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Tech Republic 08.27.12
Justin James tells how to test Web services with soapUI
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Embedded 07.08.12
For organizations that author technical documents using Microsoft Word, PeerReview Complete 2012 from SmartBear Softwear enables faster and more accurate reviews with smart comment tracking, threaded conversations and electronic signatures.
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Dr. Dobb's Journal 07.03.12
Collaboration tools have continued to pervade every aspect of software application development over the last couple of decades, and technical document reviews are no exception to that rule. Joining the industry's selection of tools in this space this month is PeerReview Complete 2012 from SmartBear Software, which provides smart comment tracking, threaded conversations, and electronic signatures for development teams looking to author technical documents using Microsoft Word.
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SD Times 06.28.12
SmartBear Software contends that PeerReview Complete 2012 will forever change the way software development teams perform code and technical document reviews with smart comment tracking, threaded conversations and electronic signatures
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TestNewsOnline 06.25.12
Last week SmartBear organized a webinar on the topic of HTML5 test automation.
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DevPro Connections 06.20.12
SmartBear Software has introduced API Complete, a solution that lets developers test and monitor the quality of their APIs and Web Services. The solution includes three SmartBear Software solutions, including: the company's API testing tool, soapUI; load-testing tool, loadUI; and web performance and monitoring solution, AlertSite.
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Tools Journal 06.06.12
TestComplete the automated testing tool from SmartBear is constantly adding new features to emerge as a complete testing solution. Recently TestComplete 9 was announced, the major highlights of the latest release are advanced cross browser testing and HTML5 testing features.
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Enterprise Systems 06.06.12
SmartBear has released TestComplete 9.0, an update to its automated testing tool. TestComplete 9.0 introduces a new approach to cross-browser testing that simplifies test reuse across Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, and Google Chrome browsers. Additionally, TestComplete now supports HTML5 testing.
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HTML5 Report 06.05.12
SmartBear Software has updated its automated testing tool that now supports HTML5 testing.
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Dr. Dobb's 06.05.12
SmartBear Software's TestComplete 9.0 arrived this week with a cross-browser testing promise that spans Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Chrome with additional HTML5 testing functionality as well. This automated testing tool with its error detection functions is suitable for testing rich Internet applications (RIAs), especially those developed rapidly in Agile development shops.
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SD Times 06.05.12
SmartBear Software today announced TestComplete 9.0, the latest release of its award-winning automated testing tool. TestComplete 9.0 introduces a new approach to cross-browser testing that simplifies test reuse across Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome browsers. Additionally, TestComplete now supports HTML5 testing, adding to its extensive list of supported rich Internet applications (RIAs).
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DevPro Connections 06.04.12
SmartBear Software has introduced the first commercially available version of its open-source Web services load-testing tool, loadUI Pro. In addition, the company has upgraded its open-source testing solution, soapUI 4.5. These two products have been integrated to provide users with a toolset that improves the quality of load testing for Web services and APIs.
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SD Times 06.01.12
You can lead. You can follow. Or you can get out of the way. The 2012 SD Times 100 represents a snapshot of the leaders of the software development industry during calendar year 2011. The 100 organizations selected by the editors have demonstrated that where they lead, competitors follow—or get out of the way.
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Professional Tester 05.30.12
For those who test systems dependent on them, APIs and web services pose challenges, especially regarding test environments. But analytical testing (the best kind) of them is relatively easy, because their providers should supply testable specifications defining what their customer systems can expect.
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InfoTech 05.29.12
SmartBear AlertSite said that it has strengthened its position as the number two provider of Web performance monitoring according to the 2012 Internet Retailer Top 500 Guide.
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Cloud Computing Journal 05.25.12
A complete software quality management approach must include activities both before and after deployment.
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Dr. Dobb's 05.21.12
SmartBear Software has released a new product designed to test and monitor the quality of Application Programming Interfaces and web services. API Complete is intended to help development shops "increase the quality of the APIs" that they do select and deploy.
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Tools Journal 05.20.12
A simple solution to all the complex issues revolving around API’s is API Complete from SmartBear Software. API Complete is a solution that enables software developers, testers and IT operations staff to test and monitor the quality of APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) and Web Services in an integrated and streamlined fashion.
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technology review 05.16.12
Facebook is not only the Web's biggest social media site, it is also consistently the fastest. In 2010, Facebook's response time averaged one second in the U.S., but had improved to 0.73 seconds by mid-2011, according to
SmartBear AlertSite.
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SD Times 05.15.12
API Complete is the result of the SmartBear acquisitions of soapUI developer eviware, which is now the SmartBear Sweden business unit, and AlertSite. soapUI has been downloaded 3 million times and has an active user community, Godskind said. eviware, he said, had a vision for how to address the DevOps divide, and API Complete is the result of that vision.
“Seventy-five percent of the Fortune 500 companies will have public APIs that their business depends upon,” said Godskind. “APIs are the biggest things to run through IT since the Web itself.”
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Enterprise Systems 05.15.12
SmartBear Software has released API Complete that enables software developers, testers, and IT operations staff to test and monitor the quality of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and Web services in an integrated and streamlined fashion.
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Embedded Computing Design 05.10.12
Peer review can help embedded hardware designers and software engineers find and fix problems earlier in the development cycle, saving money and time. As opposed to a manual approach, tool-assisted review provides reportable data that enables development teams to benchmark and improve their processes.
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CIO 05.09.12
If the dynamics of code inspections have changed in the past three decades, how should we inspect now? Matt Heusser suggests that pair programming principles could provide some, but not all, of the answers. (James Wang, Vice President of Peer Review Products, SmartBear, provides his thoughts).
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Extraspace.com 05.01.12
It is critical that SpareFoot’s website is always up and running properly. Their site requires 24/7 web monitoring so they can deliver superior site availability, speed, and user experience. And yet SpareFoot didn’t have a good diagnostic system or a “check your engine” light to tell them when things were not working smoothly. Until now.
SpareFoot is now using AlertSite, a software program that was created by SmartBear. SmartBear is a company that provides software development and then performance and post deployment monitoring tools for businesses. Their program, AlertSite, monitors web performance and instantly tells users when something goes wrong. It also provides details and statistics that help businesses quickly fix the problem.
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Dr. Dobb's 05.01.12
The Best of the Rest
As it is every year, several other meritorious nominees almost make it to the podium. These products are useful, important, and should be a part of any evaluation of testing tools for adoption by IT organizations.
SmartBear TestComplete
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Internet Retailer 05.01.12
As web pages pull content from more sources, retailers must run faster to prevent delays.
"It's very crucial for us to monitor the performance of the user experience on mobile," he says.
To do that, while also monitoring and managing the performance of its web site, StubHub works with several applications. SmartBear's AlertSite tool serves as what Escuro calls a "first responder," providing minute-by-minute updates of any interruptions of site or app performance caused by problems such as software code glitches.
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Luxury Daily 04.23.12
Brands that focus on above-the-fold content seem to have better outcomes in terms of page load time.
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TechRepublic 04.18.12
SmartBear updated its loadUI load profiling tool with a significant new update. SmartBear has also added new functionality to soapUI, its tool for testing Web services.
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Dr. Dobb's 04.04.12
SmartBear Software has this week introduced loadUI Pro and upgraded its soapUI product to form a duo of testing software with the ability to monitor server side performance. Targeting testers working to refine API's such as web services, loadUI Pro is a commercially charged version of loadUI, SmartBear's open source load test solution for APIs.
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EE Times 04.02.12
loadUI Pro and soapUI 4.5 from SmartBear Software provide software testers with an integrated toolset to improve the quality of Web Services and API source code developed for desktop, cloud, mobile, and Web applications.
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Tools Journal 03.30.12
SmartBear slowly and quitely is emerging as leading provider of software tools and technologies within Development, Testing and Monitoring space. SmartBear Software today introduced loadUI Pro and upgraded soapUI, providing software testers with an integrated toolset to improve the quality of Web Services and API source code developed for today’s desktop, cloud, mobile and Web applications.
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SD Times 03.30.12
The software development life cycle is like a puzzle: Each piece fits into the other in order to create a complete product. When teams decide to adopt new methodologies, such as agile, or revise their current methodologies to be more agile, it is important to make a road map in order to determine what you’re doing and what you want to be doing, according to experts.
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Enterprise Systems 03.30.12
SmartBear Software has introduced loadUI Pro and upgraded soapUI, providing software testers with an integrated toolset to improve the quality of Web Services and API source code developed for desktop, cloud, mobile, and Web applications.
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Alltop 03.15.12
Fight bad code, and find more bugs with code review! An infographic by SmartBear.
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Internet Retailer 03.07.12
The retailer, for example, has reduced page load times by 30% to 40% over the last 18 months, Whipple says, because it improved programming for its e-commerce sites. The retailer also pinpointed where slow-loading vendor services were slowing page load times.
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MediaPost 02.06.12
Doritos’ consumer-generated ads featuring a dastardly dog and a flying baby triumphed over a parade of celebrity-driven spots to win Brand Bowl 2012.
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EE Times 02.05.12
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VentureBeat 02.04.12
Super Bowl 46 is history now and here’s a roundup of all of the internet-related reports. Roughly 100 million watch the Super Bowl every year, making it one of the most viewed events in the world.
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Tools Journal 02.01.12
SmartBear Software today announced Code Collaborator™ 7.0, a major release thatmakes peer code review more productive and automated than ever before. Featuring revamped navigation, a streamlined, intuitive user interface, and a new SOAP API. CodeCollaborator enables teams to align their code review process with the core principles of agile development and deliver quality software faster.
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Enterprise Systems 01.31.12
SmartBear Software has released Code Collaborator 7.0, a major update that makes peer code review more productive and automated than ever before. Featuring revamped navigation, a streamlined, intuitive user interface, and a new SOAP API, CodeCollaborator enables teams to align their code review process with the core principles of agile development and deliver quality software faster.
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SD Times 01.30.12
SmartBear Software today announced Code Collaborator 7.0, a major release that makes peer code review more productive and automated than ever before. Featuring revamped navigation, a streamlined, intuitive user interface, and a new SOAP API, CodeCollaborator enables teams to align their code review process with the core principles of agile development and deliver quality software faster.
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DevProConnections 01.30.12
SmartBear Software, a provider of software testing and application lifecycle management (ALM) tools for software developers, announced CodeCollaborator 7.0, the latest major release of the CodeCollaborator code review tool. In version 7.0, SmartBear has enhanced CodeCollaborator to make it more agile-development friendly, with features such as a streamlined user interface, flexible workflows, and tighter integration with several popular software development tools.
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SysCon Media 01.19.12
Sharing software and services across teams poses many challenges. At the minimum, each team will have its own agenda and release schedule and will be largely unaware of each other's day-to-day work. Sharing becomes even more difficult in cases when the teams are geographically separated from each other or when they work for different companies.
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Luxury Daily 01.17.12
Luxury marketers such as Rolls-Royce, Jaguar, Prada and Gucci have dramatically decreased the loading times on their Web pages in the fourth quarter of 2011, positioning themselves as tech-savvy and boosting availability for busy affluent consumers.
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DZone 01.05.12
It’s the end of the year. Time to look back on what you’ve done, what you’ve learned, your successes and mistakes, and what you learned from them. I also like to look at the big picture: not just my team and the projects that I manage, or even the company that I work for, but software development in general. How are we doing as an industry, are we getting better, where are we falling behind, what are the main drivers for developers and development managers?
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Investment News 12.23.11
Bank of America tops a list but there is a rational explanation for what happened
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Huffington Post 12.22.11
We've all been there. You go to your browser, type the URL of the website of your choice, press "Enter" and, well, nothing.
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Technolog on MSNBC 12.20.11
Bank of America's website outage, along with those of Netflix, Target and Reddit, were among the biggest Web fails this year, but there's good news: "Though we witnessed a number of minor website outages and performance declines in 2011, we're encouraged to report that there were fewer significant website outages this year than in 2010."
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Mashable.com 12.19.11
It’s been a notable year for Web outages. From Netflix going down at extremely inopportune times, to Amazon Web Services’ multi-day breakdown in the spring, Internet services are still seemingly as unreliable as ever. SmartBear Software just published its list of the top Web Outages of 2011, and there are some memorable ones on there. It should be noted, though, that only outages that weren’t caused by a third party made the list — hacks like the one that took out Sony’s PlayStation Network weren’t included.
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DevProConnections 12.11.11
SmartBear Software , a provider of software development, testing, and monitoring tools, has released LoadComplete 2.0, the latest version of SmartBear's load-testing tool for web and rich Internet applications (RIAs).
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The Boston Herald 12.10.11
Washington Trust Wealth Management has hired Drew Bottaro as vice president and senior financial counselor of its Wellesley-based Weston Financial division.
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Enterprise Systems 12.06.11
SmartBear Software has released LoadComplete 2.0, the latest version of the company’s load testing tool for Web applications. Featuring new support for rich Internet applications (RIAs), LoadComplete 2.0 now makes it easy to create and run realistic load tests, without scripting, for Web sites built with Adobe Flash and Flex, AJAX, and Microsoft Silverlight technologies. New data presentation and reporting options make it easier for users to control data parameters and interpret and diagnose results to improve the performance, reliability, and user experience of Web applications.
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Professional Tester 11.30.11
Business is proving slow to adopt cloud for valid reasons: security, responsiveness and the effect of connectivity failure. These things are less important when it is used for testing and
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Internet Retailer 11.28.11
SmartBear Software today announced that AlertSite, the company’s Web and mobile performance monitoring solution, will support testing on both Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox browsers. Organizations can now test, monitor and improve how their website is performing across both browsers to ensure customers are getting an optimal user experience, no matter their browser preference.
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Tools Journal 11.16.11
SmartBear Software today announced that AlertSite, the company’s Web and mobile performance monitoring solution, will support testing on both Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox browsers. Organizations can now test, monitor and improve how their website is performing across both browsers to ensure customers are getting an optimal user experience, no matter their browser preference.
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Tools Journal 11.10.11
SmartBear has launched a campaign to fight against Bad Code and improve code quality there by forwarding all the proceeds to three worthy charities. The Bear family have said "From November 7-14, you can purchase a 7 user license of CodeReviewer for $7 a seat! No, you’re not dreaming. We normally sell CodeReviewer for $289 per seat. At $7 per seat, you save 97.5% off the regular price!".
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Luxury Daily 11.08.11
Luxury marketers Rolls-Royce, Tag Heuer, Jaguar and Ralph Lauren have posted the fastest Web site response times in the third quarter, giving them an advantage over competitors that may miss transactions due to impatient consumers, according to findings of a study released by AlertSite.
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Skyward Educator 11.08.11
In today’s school district technology environment, the use of multiple internet browsers is common and should not be severely limited by a software provider’s preference. By implementing SmartBear Software, Skyward has reduced the time needed for testing enhancements across multiple browsers that improves the quality of product updates while reducing testing time.
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ReadWriteWeb (RWW) 11.07.11
Through November 14th, you can grab 7 licenses of SmartBear's CodeReviewer for $7 bucks a pop. All of the money raised through the program will go to charities that focus on helping children, animals and the environment.
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CNNMoney 11.06.11
The seemingly indestructible Internet relies on a few backbone systems to keep traffic flowing smoothly. Sometimes, one of those systems blips -- and millions of devices get abruptly kicked offline.
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Internet Retailer 11.02.11
The Jones Group Inc. has worked with SmartBear Software’s AlertSite for at least five years. While it uses the vendor’s web and mobile performance monitoring to ensure its sites are available, it primarily draws on the data AlertSite provides to compare
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Redmond Developer News 11.01.11
SmartBear Software today announced the release of several new tools focused on QA and test management, with a focus on ease of deployment and user interface. The new products target both QA and development teams, and are delivered as a software-as-a-service (SaaS) to lower complexity and cost.
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TechNewsWorld 10.25.11
The first thing a development manager needs to do when embarking on a development project is to sit down with the business owner, and be certain a clear definition of the business requirements is captured. Once these needs are understood, the development team can move forward with an application prototype. This provides a working model of the software that the business owner can review.
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Social Times 10.19.11
SmartBear Software company released its standard quarterly report for overall Web Performance for Social Networks. The company ranked each social media site by its speed and availability in the third quarter of 2011. By speed means how fast the platform loads on the Internet, and by availability means maintaining its presence on the Internet without crashing.
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Huffington Post 10.15.11
Software company SmartBear recently released the seventh installment of their quarterly Web Performance Index for Social Networks. It ranked which social media sites were the fastest and which were the most reliable in the third quarter of 2011.
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MSN Business on Main 10.13.11
Last year, Andy Dunn, co-founder and CEO of online apparel company Bonobos, offered customers a great deal on the Monday after Thanksgiving: 30 percent off everything in the company’s online store. By 10 p.m., Bonobos had more than tripled its single-day sales record.
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ZDNet 10.12.11
Last quarter, Facebook was the fastest social network and second in terms of availability, according to SmartBear’s latest social networking website performance data. This is particularly impressive considering the service is still growing very quickly: 800 million active users and 350 million active mobile users as of last month. During this quarter, Facebook also reached a new milestone: 500 million active users in 24 hours.
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All Facebook 10.12.11
Facebook still meets our need for speed, once again finishing atop the ranking of average response time and just off the pace in availability of social media sites from SmartBear Software’s AlertSite.
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PC Magazine 10.12.11
Facebook still packs the most devastating one-two punch of availability and average response time, but it was the near-absence of Fail Whale sightings on Twitter that had SmartBear Software researchers gushing in their report on third-quarter performance by major social networking sites.
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International Business Times 10.10.11
The Anonymous takedown of NYSE Monday, Oct. 10, meant as a show of support for the Occupy Wall Street movement, has exposed a new understanding of "hacktivism": anonymity can be a curse as well as a blessing.
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Fox News 10.10.11
The New York Stock Exchange withstood an attack Monday by hacker group Anonymous, with its website appearing to have been only briefly affected.
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New York Post 10.10.11
The New York Stock Exchange withstood an attack Monday by hacker group Anonymous, with its website appearing to have been only briefly affected.
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Openview Labs 10.09.11
In our latest episode of Labcast, we talk product development with Jason Cohen, founder of WP Engine. He is also known as the founder and former CEO of SmartBear Software, Inc., a company that provides popular tools for software testing and development.
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Chicago Tribune 10.09.11
Anonymous' call for a massive attack on the New York Stock Exchange's website was met Monday -- but very, very briefly.
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CNN Money 10.09.11
Anonymous' call for a massive attack on the New York Stock Exchange's website was met Monday -- but very, very briefly.
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CNN Money 10.04.11
Bank of America's website woes continued into their sixth day on Wednesday, with customers complaining that they are still sporadically unable to log into their accounts online.
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TheFlexShow.com 10.04.11
Blaine sat down with some sponsors and attendees at Day 2 of the Adobe Max Conference.
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ESJ.com 10.04.11
SmartBear Software has updated its SaaS-based and on-premise application life cycle management tool, ALMComplete 2011, and QA and test management tool, QAComplete 2011. With this major release, SmartBear is providing software development and QA teams with more granular control over agile test management and release management activities while enhancing test reuse.
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Dr. Dobb's 10.04.11
SmartBear Software has emerged from its most recent hibernation by releasing its immodestly named ALMComplete 2011 product. This SaaS-based product sits alongside the company's standalone QA and test management tool, QAComplete 2011. In what is described as a "major release", SmartBear says it is providing software development and QA teams with "more granular control" over Agile test management and release management activities, while enhancing test reuse.
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Professional Tester 10.03.11
SmartBear Software has announced major updates to its QAComplete test management tool and therefore also to ALMComplete which comprises and integrates QAComplete and DevComplete plus extra collaboration functions.
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DevProConnections 10.03.11
SmartBear Software, a provider of software testing and application lifecycle management (ALM) tools for software developers, announced the release of ALMComplete 2011, SmartBear's ALM tool, and QAComplete, its test management tool. The focus of this major release, said Steve Miller, SmartBear's vice president of ALM Solutions, is to "provide companies an alternative to HP's Quality Center that's comparable in functionality at one-fifth the cost."
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CM Crossroads 10.03.11
SmartBear Software today announced the latest release of its SaaS-based and on-premise application lifecycle management tool, ALMComplete(TM) 2011, and QA and test management tool, QAComplete(TM) 2011. With this major release, SmartBear is providing software development and QA teams with more granular control over agile test management and release management activities, while enhancing test reuse.
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MSNBC.com 10.03.11
Bank of America blamed system upgrades and heavier-than-normal traffic for sluggishness that hounded website users for the better part of five days.
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The New York Times 10.03.11
Bank of America’s Web site continued to be troubled by sporadic problems on Wednesday, as has been the case in five of the last six days.
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Forbes.com 10.02.11
Anyone trying to login to their Bank of America account online has been struggling to do so since Friday.
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SD Times 10.02.11
SmartBear Software today is releasing to production an update to its ALMComplete 2011 life-cycle management tool, which targets release management, test management and agile development.
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TRAC Research 09.29.11
Organizations that participated in TRAC's recent survey reported that they are losing on average $21,000 per one hour of website outages and $4,100 per one hour of website slowdowns. Some organizations that participated in the survey reported that they are losing more than $1 million per hour when their website is down. While organizations have an increased understanding of how significantly performance issues with Web applications can impact their business goals, they are also finding it more difficult to have full control of website performance. Companies view new features and website designs as competitive differentiators, which only reinforces the need for new management capabilities to ensure optimal performance.
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VDC Research 09.29.11
VDC attended the 2011 Embedded Systems Conference in Boston on September 27 and 28 and held face-to-face meetings at the conference with over 20 exhibitors. This year’s ESC included greater than 100 exhibitors and was part of what UBM Electronics called Design Days Boston. Design Days Boston featured four events including ESC as part of one show including DesignMED North America, DesignCon East, and designing with LEDs. These four programs span a wide range of technologies and interests and were supported by numerous technical sessions.
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Business Insider 09.29.11
Bank of America representatives have said today's crushing website unavailability is merely a "sporadic" issue and that some customers are experiencing slower load times than normal.
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Electronic Engineering Journal 09.22.11
In this week's Fish Fry, I interview James Wang (SmartBear Software - Vice President) about the age old gap between hardware and software designers and how SmartBear's tool suite can help bridge that divide.
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DevProConnections 09.21.11
SmartBear Software's TestComplete is a mature product that I have been using for years. Recently, this excellent application-testing product was upgraded to an 8.5 point release to fully support Adobe AIR and Flash application testing.
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International Business Times 09.13.11
The launch of the new collaborative line between Italian designer, Missoni and Target has resulted in the crash of the Web site of the mega-retailer on Tuesday.
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CNN 09.12.11
The much-anticipated launch of a new collaborative line between Italian designer Missoni and Target caused the retailer's website to crash several times Tuesday.
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NY Times 09.12.11
Target’s Web site came crashing down on Tuesday as Missoni-loving fashion devotées invaded, scrambling to buy the high-end Italian designer’s clothes for a song.
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Internet Retailer 08.30.11
New site features have helped propel sales at web-only marine supplies retailer Wholesale Marine over the last three years. "We've seen about a 40% growth in sales this year over last, along with an increase of more than 40% in conversion rates," says John Bissman, manager of e-commerce. And that's on top of a strong 2009, he adds.
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Computer World UK 08.30.11
The boundaries of what we mean by “application lifecycle management” continue to stretch and tear, like Arnold Schwarzenegger stuffed into a toddler’s jumper. While we still have to be careful about defining ALM so broadly that it’s no longer a meaningful category, it’s clear that the traditional list of functionality: task management, build management, requirements, management, etc., is at least a couple of sizes too small.
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Forrester 08.29.11
The boundaries of what we mean by “application life-cycle management” continue to stretch and tear, like Arnold Schwarzenegger stuffed into a toddler’s jumper. While we still have to be careful about defining ALM so broadly that it’s no longer a meaningful category, it’s clear that the traditional list of functionality ― task management, build management, requirements, management, etc., etc.― is at least a couple of sizes too small. In fact, the amount of overlap with product life-cycle management (PLM) is so great that it may be increasingly hard to discuss them separately. They may be surprised to find how closely related they are, like Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito in Twins, but the connection is definitely there.
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Media Bistro 08.24.11
The earthquake that hit the East Coast just before 2pm ET on August 23 might have caused little damage, but it kicked up quite the storm on Twitter.
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Huffington Post 08.22.11
News about the 5.8 magnitude earthquake that shook Washington, D.C. on Tuesday and was felt in cities throughout the East coast exploded online, spreading rapidly via social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare.
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Mashable 08.22.11
A 5.9 earthquake originated in Mineral, Virginia, Tuesday afternoon, according to the U.S. Geological Survey
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CNN Money 08.22.11
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- When the ground starts shaking, the tweets pour in.
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Tools Journal 08.09.11
While i was assuming SmarBear would take some time to launch their new product they have come up with yet another innovative product that addresses practical issues in todays IT enterprise, collaborative working between hardware and software teams. SmarBear has announced the launch of "PeerReview Complete" designed to bridge the gap between software and hardware engineers to share, review, and annotate schematics, 2D drawings, diagrams, images, HTML, and other digital content.
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Dr. Dobbs 08.03.11
SmartBear Software releases new peer review tool
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Read Write Web 08.02.11
Ask any power user, blogger, or journalist which PC web browser is the fastest or the most secure, and the answer will almost always be, "Google Chrome." That's because Google has done a masterful job positioning Chrome as the high-performance, secure browser.
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CM Crossroads 08.02.11
If you’ve worked in software development and/or quality management (QM) for many years, you’ve probably found yourself in all kinds of thorny situations when it comes to managing the software development lifecycle. In my twenty-six years in this profession, I sure have, and I have the bruises to prove it. Missed deadlines, buggy releases, upset customers, and cranky bosses drilling me on why I didn’t foresee and proactively plan for these issues. Taking from those lessons learned, this article addresses a few of the challenges that you may face when implementing application lifecycle management (ALM) strategies.
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EE Times 08.01.11
PeerReview Complete from SmartBear Software is a new peer review tool that bridges the gap between software and hardware engineers to share, review, and annotate schematics, 2D drawings, diagrams, images, HTML, and other digital content. Hardware and software design teams can share and review both technical documents and programming code, keeping both teams in synch when issues are found and changes are made. PeerReview Complete shortens review times by facilitating communication across teams while simultaneously capturing the metrics and audit trail needed for compliance and process improvements.
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All Facebook 07.20.11
Well over 1.2 million different websites link to Facebook, which currently ranks second for U.S. web traffic on Alexa.
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CBR 07.19.11
To make enterprise-class software development and testing tools easily accessible to developers
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DevProConnect 07.18.11
SmartBear Software, a provider of software development and testing tools, has released LoadComplete, a new load-testing tool that aims to simplify and reduce the cost of load testing of web applications. The launch of LoadComplete is part of the SmartBear Quality Anywhere Platform, which also includes an automated code review tool, dynamic application profiling, automated functional testing, application life cycle management (ALM) tools, and web and mobile performance management tools.
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EWeek 07.18.11
SmartBear Software, a maker of tools to build, test and monitor software, has released LoadComplete, a new load testing tool.
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Inside Facebook 07.14.11
China Will Not Invest in Facebook – China’s Investment Corp is not set to invest in Facebook stock, according to a report, since the CIC sees the company as overvalued.
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Software Testing Magazine 07.12.11
Beverly, MA, and Stockholm, Sweden, July 5, 2011 – SmartBear Software today announced the acquisition of Eviware, creators of soapUI and loadUI, the world’s leading testing software for Web Services. After tripling SmartBear’s business in just one year, this acquisition further accelerates SmartBear’s momentum and significantly expands its global user community of developers, QA and IT professionals.
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DevAgile 07.11.11
Beverly, MA, and Stockholm, Sweden, July 5, 2011 – SmartBear Software today announced the acquisition of Eviware, creators of soapUI and loadUI, the world’s leading testing software for Web Services. After tripling SmartBear’s business in just one year, this acquisition further accelerates SmartBear’s momentum and significantly expands its global user community of developers, QA and IT professionals.
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SoftDevTools 07.11.11
Beverly, MA, and Stockholm, Sweden, July 5, 2011 – SmartBear Software today announced the acquisition of Eviware, creators of soapUI and loadUI, the world’s leading testing software for Web Services. After tripling SmartBear’s business in just one year, this acquisition further accelerates SmartBear’s momentum and significantly expands its global user community of developers, QA and IT professionals.
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SOA World 07.10.11
SmartBear Software has announced the acquisition of Eviware, creators of soapUI and loadUI, the world's leading testing software for Web Services. After tripling SmartBear's business in just one year, this acquisition further accelerates SmartBear's momentum and significantly expands its global user community of developers, QA and IT professionals.
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MSNBC 07.07.11
Mark Zuckerberg said almost casually the other day that yes, Facebook has 750 million users and "is still growing quickly." But will that heft hurt its website reliability and speed? What about its incorporation of Skype for video chat? So far, it's holding its own and reigns as No. 1 when it comes to reliability and speed among five major social media sites, according to a new report from AlertSite, a Web performance monitoring company.
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Tools Journal 07.06.11
SmartBear Software today announced the acquisition of Eviware, creators of soapUI and loadUI, the world’s leading testing software for Web Services. After tripling SmartBear’s business in just one year, this acquisition further accelerates SmartBear’s momentum and significantly expands its global user community of developers, QA and IT professionals.
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Boston Buisness Journal 07.04.11
SmartBear Software Inc. said Tuesday it has acquired Eviware, a Swedish firm that created soapUI, a popular open source web services testing tool.
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Mass High Tech 07.04.11
SmartBear Software Inc. said Tuesday it has acquired Eviware, a Swedish firm that created soapUI, a popular open source web services testing tool. SmartBear has about 170 employees, and the acquisition of Eviware will increase that figure by about 10 percent, according to SmartBear.
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SD Times 07.04.11
SmartBear Software today announced the acquisition of Eviware, creators of soapUI and loadUI, the world’s leading testing software for Web Services. After tripling SmartBear’s business in just one year, this acquisition further accelerates SmartBear’s momentum and significantly expands its global user community of developers, QA and IT professionals.
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Info World 06.26.11
As a concept, there's a lot to like about the cloud. Drop those bulky servers and get yourself a big, white hard drive in the sky. Someone else handles the upkeep and lets you put your data where you want it. Even the word "cloud" itself brings to mind a heavenly (if slightly fluffy) fantasy.
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ADTmag 06.06.11
Here's a look at some of the newest ALM-related products hitting the market:
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SD Times 05.31.11
In 1975, the never-modest Barry Manilow sang, “I write the songs that make the whole world sing.” The 100 companies, organizations and projects recognized in the 2011 SD Times 100 may not be particularly musical (well, Amazon and Apple make billions selling tunes), but they write the code that makes the whole software-development industry succeed.
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Dr. Dobbs 05.24.11
Industry's "first" automated testing support for Adobe Flash Builder 4.5
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SD Times 05.23.11
SmartBear Software today announced TestComplete 8.5, the latest release of its award-winning automated testing tool. TestComplete 8.5 includes advanced test automation for a vast community of developers working with Adobe Flash Builder, an Eclipse based development tool for rapidly building expressive mobile, web, and desktop applications using ActionScript and the open source Flex framework. This is the first automated testing tool to support the development and deployment of Flex 4.5 applications for the Web.
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Enterprise Software Journal 05.23.11
Delivering fast Web site performance is paramount to achieving strong business results from online customer touch points. IT and marketing professionals know poor performance (poor availability and inconsistent or slow response times) can lead to abandoned shopping carts and customer dissatisfaction.
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Enterprise Software Journal 04.25.11
SmartBear Software today announced ALMComplete 9.6, the latest release of its application lifecycle management tool. ALMComplete 9.6 enhancements (which also include DevComplete and QAComplete) add additional features for distributed development teams and project managers, improving visibility and efficiency through online task boards, and customer collaboration through customizable support management micro-sites.
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Think IT 04.24.11
Plenty of has been written about last week’s disruption of Amazon’s Web Services (AWS) which took hundreds of organizations offline, including many rapidly growing start-ups and evolving aspects of enterprise operations.
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SD Times 04.17.11
SmartBear Software today announced ALMComplete 9.6, the latest release of its application lifecycle management tool. ALMComplete 9.6 enhancements (which also include DevComplete and QAComplete) add additional features for distributed development teams and project managers, improving visibility and efficiency through online task boards, and customer collaboration through customizable support management micro-sites.
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Tech Crunch 04.06.11
SmartBear Software this morning announced its acquisition of web and mobile performance management software maker AlertSite.
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CBR 04.05.11
Expands cloud and mobile offering SmartBear Software, a provider of enterprise-class software offerings, has acquired AlertSite, a provider of Web and mobile performance management offerings.
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Financial Tech Spotlight 04.04.11
SmartBear Software, Inc., a provider of software testing and development solutions, has acquired AlertSite, Inc., a provider of web and mobile performance management solutions. Both the companies are based in the US.
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Internet Retailer 04.04.11
SmartBear Software says it has acquired web site monitoring company AlertSite Inc. SmartBear did not say how much it paid for the company.
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DevProConnection 04.03.11
SmartBear Software, a provider of application performance management, testing, and QA tools for software development, has acquired AlertSite, a provider of cloud-based web and mobile performance management solutions. The addition of AlertSite will expand SmartBear's cloud and mobile tools to cover the entire software development life cycle and adds performance-monitoring capabilities to SmartBear's development and testing toolset.
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451 Research 04.03.11
Analyst: Dennis Callaghan 4 Apr, 2011 ~ SmartBear, formed from the recent merger of three other software companies in the application testing space, has made its first acquisition, reaching for Web performance management software developer AlertSite.
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SD Times 04.03.11
SmartBear today announced the acquisition of Web performance monitoring company AlertSite, saying it fits well into the company’s strategy of improving quality across the software development life cycle. The terms of the deal between the privately held companies were not disclosed.
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South Florida Buisness Journal 04.03.11
Massachusetts-based SmartBear Software has acquired AlertSite
AlertSite's flagship product, DéjàClick, helps 2,300 companies speed up and optimize Web and mobile solutions, a news release said.
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Test Magazine 02.28.11
Steve Miller, vice president of ALM solutions for SmartBear Software outlines the best practices for uniting both automated and manual test approaches to improve your software releases.
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SD TImes 02.21.11
Tasktop Technologies, creators of the Eclipse Mylyn project and a leader in Agile Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) integration and productivity, and SmartBear Software today announced the Eclipse Mylyn Connector for SmartBear CodeCollaborator. Available in Tasktop Enterprise, the new connector brings task-focused interface technology to code reviews managed in CodeCollaborator, making code reviews a regular part of Eclipse-based development activities. The integrated Tasktop and CodeCollaborator offering helps development teams develop higher quality software that is delivered to market faster and more efficiently.
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Jaxenter 02.21.11
Das AML-Werkzeug Tasktop ist in Version 1.8.1 erschienen. Der Hauptfokus soll auf der Integratiion der Code Review Lösung CodeCollaborator gelegen haben.