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  • Applitools Announces A/B Testing Support and Slack Integration to Help Teams Manage Quality More Effectively

    Simplify visual validations for multiple variations of a web or mobile app and seamlessly share test results with your team via Slack or email

     

    SAN MATEO, Calif., April 28, 2020 – Applitools, the leading provider of Visual AI powered test automation, today announced enhancements to its flagship product, Applitools Eyes. Applitools Eyes now offers customers the ability to A/B test up to 20 variations of dynamic content and collaborate like never before via Slack or email.

    Sign up for a free Applitools account and start using Visual AI today at (https://applitools.com/users/register).

    “A/B testing is a business imperative at GoodRx – it helps our product team deliver the absolute best user experience to our valued customers,” said Priyanka Halder, Sr. Manager, Quality Engineering at GoodRx. “Until now, our quality team struggled to automate tests for pages with A/B tests – we’d encounter false positives and by the time we wrote complex conditional test logic, the A/B test would be over. Applitools implementation of A/B testing is incredibly easy to set up and accurate. It has allowed our quality team to align and rally behind the business needs and guarantee the best experience for our end-users.”

    A/B Testing to Validate Multiple Variations of an Application

    In order to optimize engagement and increase customer conversion, online businesses offer multiple customized variations of web and mobile screens to their customers. This requirement creates a significant challenge for test engineers to automate the testing process.

    A/B testing and more specifically, multivariate testing (MVT), is a technique used to compare multiple variations of the same application to determine which version is more effective with users. The problem is that many teams don’t automate tests to validate multiple variations because it’s expensive, “throwaway” code with endless conditional logic attempting to cover every variation.

    With Applitools Eyes and its new A/B Testing feature, developers and QA professionals can automatically test multiple variations with a single line of code instead of writing complicated testing scripts that cover all the potential options. If any of the variations come up and there are no bugs, the test will pass. By being able to quickly support A/B variations, QA teams are no longer a roadblock to business optimization.

    For additional detail on how to automate A/B variations with Applitools Eyes, visit Angie Jones’ recent article: (https://applitools.com/blog/validating-multiple-variations).

    Slack Integration Improves Collaboration amongst Distributed QA & Dev Teams

    Users can now integrate the visual test results from Applitools Eyes into any Slack channel in order to share and notify any bug immediately after being detected. It is possible to achieve this integration in any programming language as the TestResults object is accessible in Java, JavaScript, Python, Ruby, C#, and PHP.

    Here is a step-by-step tutorial on how to integrate automated test results from Applitools Eyes into Slack, visit: (https://applitools.com/blog/integrate-test-results-slack).

    “Applitools is built to test all the elements that appear on a screen with just one line of code,” said Adam Carmi, co-founder and CTO of Applitools. “Our A/B testing capability takes Visual AI one step further and solves for another significant bottleneck for modern automated testing. With the new Slack integration, our customers can share their test results with the entire team making the release process faster than ever before.”

    About Applitools

    Applitools enables Visual AI powered test automation to help teams release high-quality web and mobile apps faster and more efficiently.

     

    Applitools Visual AI modernizes important test automation use cases — Functional Testing, Visual Testing, Web and Mobile UI/UX Testing, Cross Browser Testing, Responsive Web Design Testing, Cross Device Testing, PDF Testing, Accessibility Testing and Compliance Testing — to transform the way organizations deliver innovation at the speed of CI/CD at a significantly lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).

     

    Hundreds of companies from verticals such as Software, Banking, Insurance, Retail, Pharmaceuticals, and Publishing — including 50 of the Fortune 100 — use Applitools to deliver the best possible digital experiences to millions of customers on any device and browser, and across every screen size and operating system.

     

    Applitools is headquartered in San Mateo, California, with an R&D center in Tel Aviv, Israel. For more information, please visit applitools.com.

     

  • Impact of Visual AI on Test Automation Shows 5.8x Faster Authoring, 5.9x Better Test Code Efficiency, and a 4.6x Increase in Test Stability

    Empirical data from 288 Quality Engineers reveals how Applitools Visual AI helps teams release higher quality apps faster when using Cypress, Selenium, and WebdriverIO

    SAN MATEO, Calif., April 7, 2020 – Applitools, the leading provider of Visual AI powered test automation, today announced an industry report that reveals the impact of Visual AI on the performance of the most popular open source test frameworks – Cypress, Selenium, and WebdriverIO. Data was sourced from 288 quality engineers across 101 countries, spending an average of 11 hours during November 2019. This amounts to a combined 80 work weeks, or well over a year and a half of quality engineering hours, making it the largest industry study of its kind to date.

    To download the “Impact of Visual AI on Test Automation Report” visit: (https://www.applitools.com/impact-of-visual-ai/)

    “The Impact of Visual AI on Test Automation Report” provides important learning including:

    • 5.8x Faster Test Creation: When using existing open source code-based frameworks in isolation, it took testers 7 hours to create test code in contrast to just 1.2 hours using Visual AI. As a result, testers are able to greatly expand test coverage while simultaneously releasing faster than ever before.
    • 3.8x Increase in Test Code Stability: Participants used 32 locators and labels on average to provide test coverage using code based frameworks alone. This number dropped to just 7 with Visual AI. This increased stability greatly reduces test flakiness, broken CI/CD builds, and time spent on maintenance. Better test stability leads to efficiency gains along whatever dimension the quality engineering team values most – either more coverage, more time to manage quality, or even faster test cycles in support of CI/CD.
    • 45% More Efficient at Catching Bugs: Participants caught 19 out of 20 bugs (95%) using Visual AI compared to just 13 (65%) when using code based frameworks in isolation. When test builds are faster, provide more coverage, and are more stable and easily maintained, testers catch more bugs pre-production while still delivering more features, faster than previously thought possible.
    • Visual AI Helped Testers Succeed in Their Work When Used in Conjunction with Open Source Frameworks: All 288 testers that participated in the study achieved success rates of 79% when using their preferred code-based framework vs. 88% with Visual AI. This is a nine point jump in their performance after just a single hour of Visual AI training. Eric Davidson, Software Engineer from Chick-Fil-A comments, “This was an incredible opportunity to experience the power of Visual AI. Applitools has created a tool that easily integrates with existing frameworks and quickly augments functional test suites…”

    To dive deeper into this study, register for the upcoming webinar on April 23, 2020, “The Impact of Visual AI on Selenium, Cypress, and WebdriverIO: Side-by-Side Test Code Comparison From 288 Quality Engineers” hosted by Raja Rao and James Lamberti of Applitools (https://go.applitools.com/200423-Hackathon-insights-webinar.html).

    “Visual AI is a tremendous efficiency multiplier for automated testing,” said Gil Sever, CEO of Applitools. “It improves the productivity of developers and test automation engineers more than 5X, delivers huge time and money savings in the app delivery cycle, removes the testing bottleneck in the CI/CD process, and helps deliver software applications with unprecedented visual and functional quality on any computer and mobile device.”

    “Testers need to look at Visual AI as a superpower. A virtual assistant that can access every screen and page in minutes, inspect it for changes and interpret every one of them the same way the human eye and brain would, but do so without ever getting tired or making any mistakes. We believe this capability is a major part of the future of test automation.”

    According to Gartner’s Critical Capabilities for Software Test Automation (December 18, 2019), “61% of [its 2019 Software Quality Tools and Practices Survey] respondents said that AI/ML features would be very valuable in software testing tools. Improved defect detection (48%), reduction in test maintenance cost (42%) and improved test coverage (41%) were seen as the top benefits expected (multiple answers were allowed).” “The Impact of Visual AI on Test Automation Report” provides empirical evidence that Applitools Visual AI delivers exactly what the market expects from the addition of AI/ML into automated testing.

    Data was sourced via the “Global Visual AI Rockstar Hackathon” which challenged software testers to create test suites for five real-world functional testing use-cases using their preferred code-based approach, including Selenium, Cypress, or WebdriverIO, and then repeat the process after adding Applitools Visual AI. This approach provided an unbiased, highly controlled environment from 288 quality engineers from 101 different countries during the 30 days ending November 30, 2019.

    “Completing the hackathon was a keystone achievement in my career!” said Tracy Mazelin, QA Engineer at Paylocity. “I learned more by participating in this hackathon than any other automation instruction I’ve taken in the past number of years. I’m now 100 percent convinced that Visual AI testing is an essential tool for efficiently validating web and mobile software applications.”

    “This was the most interesting and useful event of the year in the field of test automation,” said Viktar Silakou, Lead QA Automation Engineer at Globant S.A. “This allows you to take a look at test automation from a different point of view and gives an opportunity to radically improve your existing approaches.”

    About Applitools

    Applitools enables Visual AI powered test automation to help teams release high-quality web and mobile apps faster and more efficiently.

    Applitools Visual AI modernizes important test automation use cases — Functional Testing, Visual Testing, Web and Mobile UI/UX Testing, Cross Browser Testing, Responsive Web Design Testing, Cross Device Testing, PDF Testing, Accessibility Testing and Compliance Testing — to transform the way organizations deliver innovation at the speed of CI/CD at a significantly lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).

    Hundreds of companies from verticals such as Software, Banking, Insurance, Retail, Pharmaceuticals, and Publishing — including 50 of the Fortune 100 — use Applitools to deliver the best possible digital experiences to millions of customers on any device and browser, and across every screen size and operating system.

    Applitools is headquartered in San Mateo, California, with an R&D center in Tel Aviv, Israel. For more information, please visit applitools.com.

  • Applitools Announces General Availability of Ultrafast Grid – the Fastest, Most Reliable and Cost Effective Cross Browser Testing Platform Available Today

    More than 50 Global Fortune 500 Applitools customers are already executing tests up to 70x faster on Chrome, Safari, Edge and Internet Explorer

    SAN MATEO, Calif., March 5, 2020 – Applitools, the leading provider of Visual AI for intelligent functional and visual testing, today announced the general availability of the Applitools Ultrafast Grid. The Ultrafast Grid is a state of the art cloud platform that enables blazing fast concurrent rendering of apps on different browsers and devices, with the superior reliability and stability that only Visual AI can deliver.

    Learn more about the Applitools Ultrafast Grid and get started today: (https://applitools.com/ultrafast-grid).

    The Ultrafast Grid, built on modern container technology, is now fully integrated with Applitools Eyes offering unprecedented speed via parallelization and DOM caching techniques. When you combine the 70x speed boost of the Ultrafast Grid with the 30x productivity boost of Visual AI, the industry is seeing the most revolutionary advancement in automated testing in over a decade.

    “The cost of testing new releases across different browsers and devices forces enterprises to choose between adding expenses via additional resources, increasing risk with a reduction of test coverage, or slowing down release cadence,” says Torsten Volk, Managing Research Director at EMA Research. “Applitools navigates the vicious triangle by providing AI-driven testing for any browser and any device, nearly eliminating the test overhead per release. This enables enterprises to release software more frequently without added cost or risk, allowing them to be a lot more responsive to market requirements. This ultra-responsiveness to customer requirements is what CI/CD is all about.”

    Ultrafast Grid + Visual AI Supercharges Functional, Visual, Cross Browser, and Cross Device Testing

    The Ultrafast Grid now offers the fastest, most reliable and cost-effective solution for teams to quickly succeed in their test automation and CI/CD efforts. Applitools solution leverages Visual AI for improved test coverage, while substantially reducing the test code that results in wasted time and endless maintenance cycles. It simplifies cross browser testing by eliminating the need to tediously run functional and visual tests individually across all browsers and viewports. Further, it integrates seamlessly with any existing DevOps or QA environment, unlocking the path to CI/CD for faster releases without sacrificing quality.

    Applitools Ultrafast Grid supports Cypress, Storybook, Selenium Java, Selenium JavaScript, Selenium C#, Selenium Python, Selenium Ruby, Selenium IDE, Webdriver.IO, TestCafe, and more. Running existing tests on the new Ultrafast Grid boosts performance by executing tests 30x to 70x faster than current solutions relying on legacy virtual machines and test clouds. All in combination with the added efficiency and stability that only Visual AI can offer for end-to-end functional and visual testing at the speed of CI/CD. Applitools Ultrafast Grid now runs cross browser and cross environment tests on Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Edge, and Internet Explorer.

    See the Ultrafast Grid in action: (https://applitools.com/blog/cross-browser-testing-ultrafast-grid)

    “Accelerating time to production without sacrificing quality has become table stakes for Agile and DevOps professionals,” said Igor Draskovic, VP, Developer Specialist at BNY Mellon. “The team at Applitools has taken a fresh approach to cross browser testing with the Ultrafast Grid. While traditional cloud testing platforms are subject to false positives and slow execution, Applitools’ unique ability to run Visual AI in parallel containers can give your team the unfair advantage of stability, speed, and improved coverage. This modern approach to testing is something that all DevOps professionals should strongly consider.”

    Early Success and Adoption of Ultrafast Grid

    The Ultrafast Grid has seen quick adoption and is already being used successfully in production. Since the beta launched in Spring 2019, Applitools has signed more than 50 Global Fortune 500 customers helping expand market presence significantly.

    “I was so pleased with the results we achieved with Applitools at my previous employer, that I am currently replicating this environment in my new role,” said Greg Sypolt, VP Quality Assurance at EverFi. “When we added Applitools Visual AI + the Ultrafast Grid solution to our test generation framework, we were able to decrease test authoring time to under five minutes per test, while increasing test coverage, reducing build time, and achieving a 99% pass rate. The level of efficiency we achieved is a testament to strong leadership, an incredibly talented team, and innovative partners such as Applitools.”

    “When using Applitools Ultrafast Grid, you can forget cross browser functional testing because eventually your E2E tests will be converted to Visual tests. Ultrafast Grid will do the job of running your E2E tests across multiple browsers,” wrote Bilal Haidar, senior system developer at CCIC and thisdot.co media contributor. “[Once you have captured your test with Cypress], the state of the DOM captured along with the visual snapshots get sent to the Applitools Ultrafast Grid in the cloud. Your E2E tests are being run on multiple browsers, and you get a chance to run your functional tests on multiple browsers inexpensively.”

    Other renowned testing experts have tried and commented on Applitools Ultrafast Grid and published their experience on their blogs. They include Jonah Stiennon, who ran 372 cross browser tests in under three minutes, and Anand Bagmar, publisher of the Essence of Testing blog, who wrote about the ease of cross browser testing using Applitools Ultrafast Grid.

    See the Grid in Action with Cypress: (https://applitools.com/blog/cross-browser-testing-cypress)

    “Continuous quality is key to success today, but existing test tools, frameworks and grids are unable to deliver on that promise,” said Gil Sever, co-founder and CEO of Applitools. “The combination of Applitools Eyes and the Ultrafast Grid allows organizations to deliver and execute cross browser tests more consistently and quickly, and at a fraction of the cost. Tests can now be run with fewer lines of code and with the assistance of Visual AI technology across all browsers. This solution creates a functional and visual testing platform that ensures app quality across all screen sizes and device types, which is key to successful digital transformation.”

    About Applitools

    Applitools delivers Intelligent Functional and Visual Testing powered by world-class Visual AI technology to help Developers, Test Automation Engineers, QA professionals, DevOps and Digital Transformation teams to release high-quality web and mobile apps and features faster.

    The company evolves test automation use cases — Functional Testing, Visual Testing, Web and Mobile UI/UX Testing, Cross Browser Testing, Responsive Web Design testing, Cross Device Testing, PDF Testing, Accessibility Testing and Compliance Testing — to transform the way organizations deliver innovation at the speed of CI/CD at a significantly lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).

    Hundreds of companies from verticals such as Software, Banking, Insurance, Retail, Pharmaceuticals, and Publishing — including 50 of the Fortune 100 — use Applitools to deliver the best possible digital experiences to millions of customers on any device and browser, and across every screen size and operating system.

    Applitools is headquartered in San Mateo, California, with an R&D center in Tel Aviv, Israel. For more information, please visit applitools.com.

     

  • Applitools Announces Winners of the Global Visual AI Rockstar Hackathon

    More than 3,000 applicants competed to win 100 cash prizes and to be recognized as the top functional and visual test automation engineers on the planet 

    SAN MATEO, Calif., – January 23, 2020 – Applitools, the leading provider of Intelligent Functional and Visual Testing Through Visual AI, today announced the 100 winners and 10 Grand Prize winners of the Global Visual AI Rockstar Hackathon (applitools.com/hackathon). The hackathon’s objective was to see which of the participants could comprehensively catch and fix functional and visual bugs using both their preferred code-based approach and Visual AI.

    Out of 3,000 participants and 300 finalists, the top 100 winners received cash prizes. The winners were comprised of a diverse group of QA engineers, QA managers and software developers from 38 countries. These participants wrote automation tests against a pre-built Hackathon app for five common use cases in both the traditional approach and the Visual AI approach. They used Selenium or Cypress test runners and several programming languages such as Java, JavaScript, Python, and C# to write their tests. The $42,000 prize pool recognized those who delivered the most test coverage and the highest quality test results.

    To learn more about Applitools Visual AI Rockstar Hackathon, read our blog (https://applitools.com/blog/hackathon-winners)

    “This challenge propelled me into digging for alternative ways to traditional testing,” said Grand Prize Winner, Corina Zaharia. “While solving the challenge, I realized that a tool like Applitools will save time on the proposed scenarios while still delivering the same value as other traditional frameworks.”

    “The Visual AI Hackathon was a fun way to discover the limitations of current ‘traditional ways of testing’ versus what Applitools provides,” said Grand Prize Winner, Ioan Cimpean. “From simple image comparisons, broken layouts, intended changes to broken sort algorithms, dynamic content and JIRA integrations, the bottom line is that you still need the screenshot anyway (for bug reporting and collaboration) around the issue.”

    “The response we received to the first-ever Global Visual AI Rockstar Hackathon was phenomenal,” noted Raja Rao, Sr. Director and Head of Growth Marketing at Applitools. “Participants used Applitools in so many diverse and unique ways for their test automation submissions — it was enlightening to see the increased usage of Visual AI technology and ways it can be applied in the real world.”

    For a full list of the Top 100 Winners, visit: (applitools.com/hackathon).

    About Applitools

    Applitools delivers Intelligent Functional and Visual Testing powered by world-class Visual AI technology to help Developers, Test Automation Engineers, QA professionals, DevOps and Digital Transformation teams to release high-quality web and mobile apps and features faster.

    The company evolves test automation use cases — Functional Testing, Visual Testing, Web and Mobile UI/UX Testing, Cross-Browser Testing, Responsive Web Design testing, Cross-Device Testing, PDF Testing, Accessibility Testing and Compliance Testing — to transform the way organizations deliver innovation at the speed of CI-CD at a significantly lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).

    Hundreds of companies from verticals such as Software, Banking, Insurance, Retail, Pharmaceuticals, and Publishing — including 50 of the Fortune 100 — use Applitools to deliver the best possible digital experiences to millions of customers on any device and browser, and across every screen size and operating system.

    Applitools is headquartered in San Mateo, California, with an R&D center in Tel Aviv, Israel. For more information, please visit applitools.com.

  • Test Automation University Upskills 35,000 Test Automation Engineers through 33 Free Online Courses in 2019

    Global demand for test automation skillsets fuels growth of free online learning hub led by Angie Jones and many of the world’s foremost dev, test and QA experts

    SAN MATEO, Calif., – December 19, 2019 – Applitools, the leading provider of Intelligent Functional and Visual Testing Through Visual AI, today announced Test Automation University has surpassed the 35,000 student mark. Since announcing its first course less than one year ago, Test Automation University’s world-class instructors have produced a curriculum of 33 courses and 12 unique Learning Pathways. These resources make up one of the world’s most vibrant open source, upskilling communities filling a vital need for the R&D teams looking to manage quality in the era of CI-CD and Digital Transformation.

    Test Automation University offers a variety of free test automation courses covering web, API, mobile, visual, AI, and codeless automation frameworks and provides free training in multiple programming languages, such as Java, JavaScript, C#, Python, Ruby, and Swift. The organizers also host a growing Slack channel of more than 4,000 members to help students get started with courses, answer questions and stay engaged with the test automation community.

    “We wanted to build a free and friendly place where anyone can learn about test automation from industry experts,” said Raja Rao DV, senior director of growth at Applitools and head of Test Automation University. “I think we’ve only scratched the surface and I expect a lot more in the next year.”

    “I am so proud of the work we are doing to give anyone the opportunity to learn new software engineering skills for free,” said Angie Jones, senior developer advocate at Applitools, head of content and instructor relations at Test Automation University, and instructor of five courses including one of the most popular courses of 2019, ‘Automated Visual Testing with Java’. “It is a strong and vibrant community where new courses are added regularly by world-class instructors who share our goal of increasing test automation success rates globally.”

    How Test Automation University Began

    Created as a community-driven, one-stop-shop for people interested in test automation, Test Automation University helps improve skillsets for QA engineers and developers with varying levels of experience and know-how.

    Initially launched in January 2019, Test Automation University has aggressively expanded its curriculum to 33 courses covering subjects such as:

    “Test Automation University is incredible and offers an ever-growing catalog of insightful courses on all things test automation provided by well-known instructors. The quality of the content is amazing. I’ve heard the whole range from fresh beginners to very experienced practitioners confirm that they’ve learned a lot. Many would have loved to have such a learning resource earlier in their career, myself included,” said Lisi Hocke, principal agile tester and instructor of The Whole Team Approach to Continuous Testing.

    “Test Automation University stands out from many other online learning platforms for a number of reasons. All the content is of very high quality, created by industry experts and tailored exclusively to test automation, which means there’s no dilution or confusion: if you’re a tester or automation engineer, you’ll learn something useful from each and every course. I’m proud to be one of the contributors,” said Bas Dijkstra, freelance test automation trainer and instructor of Automating Your API tests with REST Assured.

    “Test Automation University is a platform that enables the modern tester to be equipped with the latest and greatest armor to tackle the technical world of testing. I am proud to have shared my bit on Test Automation University and help others increase their skillset to make a difference in their careers and immediate output regarding test automation in their jobs,” said Toyer Mamoojee, head of QA and instructor of Jest JavaScript Testing Framework.

    Have Fun Upskilling Your Quality Engineering

    Of the 35,000 enrolled students, Test Automation University continuously tracks the ‘TAU Top 100’ students based on the number of credits these students have earned on the platform. Test Automation University also awards ranks and badges to everyone based on their accomplishments. These superstars hail from all over the world and their roles range from testers, junior to senior automation engineers, developers, team leads, and test managers.

    “Thanks to Test Automation University and its broad range of courses and lessons, it helped me improve my technical skills and be part of a great community,” said Diana Gospodinova, QA automation developer from DEGIRO.

    “It was one of the best things that happened to me in 2019. [Test Automation University] helped me to be better at QA,” said Amit Jain, QA manager at Tata ELXSI.

    “There is no place like Test Automation University if you want to up your game in test automation. Trust me, I’ve been looking,” said Massimo Giltrelli, senior test engineer at Infineon.

    “My favorite thing about Test Automation University is the variety of courses offered in different programming languages that help build a well-rounded test automation profile,” said Aleksandar Zeljković, lead QA engineer at Bridgewater Labs.

    About Applitools

    Applitools delivers Intelligent Functional and Visual Testing powered by world-class Visual AI technology to help Developers, Test Automation Engineers, QA professionals, DevOps and Digital Transformation teams to release high-quality web and mobile apps and features faster.

    The company evolves test automation use cases — Functional Testing, Visual Testing, Web and Mobile UI/UX Testing, Cross-Browser Testing, Responsive Web Design testing, Cross-Device Testing, PDF Testing, Accessibility Testing and Compliance Testing — to transform the way organizations deliver innovation at the speed of CI-CD at a significantly lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).

    Hundreds of companies from verticals such as Software, Banking, Insurance, Retail, Pharmaceuticals, and Publishing — including 50 of the Fortune 100 — use Applitools to deliver the best possible digital experiences to millions of customers on any device and browser, and across every screen size and operating system.

    Applitools is headquartered in San Mateo, California, with an R&D center in Tel Aviv, Israel. For more information, please visit applitools.com.

     

  • Applitools Test Automation and Visual AI Hackathon to Award Over $40,000 in Prizes to Engineers Who Upskill in Support of the Future of Testing

    Open to the First 500 People to Complete the Challenge, Applitools Visual AI Rockstar Hackathon Celebrates the Top 100 Functional and Visual Test Automation Experts

    SAN MATEO, Calif., November 4, 2019 – Applitools, the leading provider of Visual AI for intelligent functional and visual testing, today issued the “Visual AI Rockstar Hackathon” to identify and reward the top 100 functional and visual test engineers on the planet. For a full list of eligibility criteria and contest rules, visit: (applitools.com/hackathon).

    To enter, participants must write test automation scripts against a demo web app using two separate approaches: a traditional code-based testing approach using Selenium, WebdriverIO, or Cypress and an image-based testing approach using Applitools Visual AI. Adhering to a set of standardized testing criteria, participants must submit both versions of their code to a public GitHub repo.

    Contest participants, including but not limited to software developers, QA professionals and test automation engineers, will compete for $34,000 in cash prizes and a total of 10 tickets to 2020 Selenium Conferences for a total of $42,000 in prizes. Judges will review the first 500 submissions and determine who can drive the fastest software release cycle of a high-quality app by catching and fixing functional and visual bugs earlier in the development lifecycle. There are two grand prizes of $5,000 with 98 additional prizes.

    Applitools Visual AI Rockstar Hackathon is free to enter and people from anywhere in the world are eligible to qualify. The contest is officially open until November 30, 2019 at midnight Pacific Time. Winners will be announced no later than January 15, 2020. The contest will be limited to the first 500 contestants that successfully complete the challenge and submit their results.

    “To keep pace with the speed and velocity of Agile and DevOps processes, development teams are now required to catch both functional and visual bugs earlier in the dev cycle and fix them in a fraction of the time,” said Angie Jones, senior developer advocate at Applitools. “We at Applitools believe that Visual AI is the simplest and most effective way to write test automation scripts. We’re issuing the global Visual AI Rockstar hackathon challenge to showcase the evolution in automated testing and what it takes to provide the most complete test coverage required for a world of constantly changing apps, screen types, devices, and browsers.”

    Test Automation University Teaches Modern Functional Test Automation

    For individuals that wish to participate in the Applitools Visual AI Rockstar Hackathon but who have never used Visual AI technology, it is recommended to take the free, online Test Automation University course, “Modern Functional Test Automation Through Visual AI” (https://testautomationu.applitools.com/modern-functional-testing/).

    In this course, the instructor and the Head of Growth at Applitools, Raja Rao, shows real-world examples in which by using Visual AI, devs and test engineers are able to build and maintain a functional test up to 80x times faster with 21x more stability than with existing approaches today, while dramatically expanding test coverage.

    “The future is here. Testing the UI/UX of today’s complex apps must include an intelligent, image-based approach through Visual AI that leverages existing code-based scripts, but dramatically reduces the time and effort required to maintain them,” Rao said. “The time is now to upskill and advance your career in test automation and software development by learning how to apply Visual AI effectively.”

    For more information or to learn more about Applitools, visit https://applitools.com/.

    About Applitools

    Applitools delivers Intelligent Functional and Visual Testing powered by world-class Visual AI technology to help Developers, Test Automation Engineers, QA professionals, DevOps and Digital Transformation teams to release high-quality web and mobile apps and features faster.

    The company evolves test automation use cases — Functional Testing, Visual Testing, Web and Mobile UI/UX Testing, Cross-Browser Testing, Responsive Web Design testing, Cross-Device Testing, PDF Testing, Accessibility Testing and Compliance Testing — to transform the way organizations deliver innovation at the speed of CI-CD at a significantly lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).

    Hundreds of companies from verticals such as Software, Banking, Insurance, Retail, Pharmaceuticals, and Publishing — including 50 of the Fortune 100 — use Applitools to deliver the best possible digital experiences to millions of customers on any device and browser, and across every screen size and operating system.

    Applitools is headquartered in San Mateo, California, with an R&D center in Tel Aviv, Israel. For more information, please visit applitools.com.

     

  • Applitools Expands its Offering to Deliver Intelligent Functional and Visual Testing through Visual AI and Ultrafast Grid

    Enhanced offering drives 2.8x* faster release cycles, 2.6x* improvement in bug detection, and fully eliminates false positives through Visual AI while significantly reducing the complexity, effort, and cost of test automation

    SAN MATEO, Calif., October 8, 2019 – Applitools, the leading provider of Visual AI for intelligent functional and visual testing, today announced the expansion of its offering to provide comprehensive, end-to-end test automation capabilities for any type of web or mobile applications. Applitools’ world class Visual AI technology combined with its new Ultrafast Grid provides unparalleled test automation performance including significantly faster test runs, improved detection of bugs, significant reduction in test authoring and maintenance time and effort, faster test results reviewing, elimination of false positives, and more than 50 percent reduction in the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).

    Based on the “2019 State of Automated Visual Testing Report”*, an independent research study of over 350 global companies, teams using Visual AI in their test automation frameworks report a 53 percent* increase in test coverage, a 2.6X improvement in quality, and a 2.8X increase in release velocity.*

    *Download your free copy of the 2019 State of Automated Visual Testing Report

    “Since integrating CI and using Applitools for test automation, there’s been a vast improvement in release times down from three to four weeks to just one week or less,” said Greg Sypolt, Director of Quality Engineering at Gannett | USA Today. “Not only does Applitools help us get a better return on our investment, but we’re able to capitalize on our vision of becoming ‘digital-first’ by reliably delivering content to millions of digital news consumers using an array of desktop browsers, mobile devices and operating systems.”

    Development and QA teams can now use Applitools to catch both functional and visual bugs early in the dev cycle and fix them in a fraction of the time relative to any other existing solution, thereby driving faster release cycles, superior software quality, and highly reliable automatic maintenance. In the Test Automation University course “Modern Functional Test Automation Through Visual AI”, course instructor Raja Rao shows a real world example in which by using Applitools Visual AI, devs and test engineers are able to build and maintain a functional test 80x times faster with 21x more stability than with existing approaches today, while dramatically expanding test coverage.

    Don’t take our word for it! See for yourself how you can achieve these results by enrolling in the “Modern Functional Test Automation through Visual AI” course at Test Automation University (https://testautomationu.applitools.com/modern-functional-testing/)

    “Companies today are frustrated by the insufficient quality they get at the end of the day, in spite of the huge investment of time, manpower, and money they make in test automation tools and processes,” said Gil Sever, CEO of Applitools. “Today’s test automation tools are lagging behind the needs and pace of modern app development because they are code heavy, slow to run and maintain, and lack an intelligent visual analysis capability, while the visual interface is the most critical factor in user experience and user satisfaction. This is because existing functional testing tools are script-based and thus slow and cumbersome to deal with app testing in Agile and CI-CD environments. They are not able to provide the visual testing coverage needed for constantly changing apps, and cannot easily adapt to the variety of devices and browsers used by the millions of app users. Applitools now provides a comprehensive answer to these needs through its unique, world class Visual AI technology, which provides the necessary speed, coverage, and accuracy at a fraction of the effort and cost compared to any other toolset in the market today.”

    To create a free account and start using Intelligent Functional and Visual Testing through Visual AI, visit (https://applitools.com/users/register).

    “Today’s trend toward continuously releasing and validating software capabilities for an ever-larger number of devices often dramatically increases the overhead of consistently and comprehensively testing each release,” said Torsten Volk, Managing Research Director, Containers, DevOps, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence at EMA Research. “The Applitools approach looks at the UI as an end-user would, only flagging potential issues for manual review by human testers if they could be relevant for the actual user experience. This image-based approach cuts out a good chunk of the need for continuous test code adjustments and extensions, and it lowers the risk of still overlooking code changes that impact end users.”

    With Applitools, testing is no longer a bottleneck and it is now available to every developer and test engineer.

    Applitools is passionate about making certain that the testing process and its quality outcome keeps pace with Agile and CI-CD software development environments. To help make this vision a reality, Applitools is now offering a licensing model that allows its customers to test their apps as often as they need, on as many environments and browsers as they want, with unlimited users. That allows anyone in the organization to take part in the testing process and constantly test after every code commit without worrying about the cost. In this innovative commercial model, customers pay for the number of unique validation points (simply called “pages”) they want to test, no matter how many times these validations are being run, by any number of users, or in any number of environments. Applitools also fully supports open source projects and provides the option to add Visual AI to any open source libraries at no cost.

    You are invited to visit the Applitools pricing page for more details here. (https://applitools.com/pricing). 

    About Applitools

    Applitools delivers Intelligent Functional and Visual Testing powered by world-class Visual AI technology to help Developers, Test Automation Engineers, QA professionals, DevOps and Digital Transformation teams to release high-quality web and mobile apps and features faster.

    The company evolves test automation use cases — Functional Testing, Visual Testing, Web and Mobile UI/UX Testing, Cross-Browser Testing, Responsive Web Design testing, Cross-Device Testing, PDF Testing, Accessibility Testing and Compliance Testing — to transform the way organizations deliver innovation at the speed of CI-CD at a significantly lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).

    Hundreds of companies from verticals such as Software, Banking, Insurance, Retail, Pharmaceuticals and Publishing — including 50 of the Fortune 100 — use Applitools to deliver the best possible digital experiences to millions of customers on any device and browser, and across every screen size and operating system.

    Applitools is headquartered in San Mateo, California, with an R&D center in Tel Aviv, Israel. For more information, please visit applitools.com.

     

  • Test Automation University Enrollment Surges to 20,000 in Six Months as Engineers Skill Up to Advance Career Paths – Fueled by pent-up demand.

    Fueled by pent-up demand to learn test automation skill sets, the free online educational hub expands to 23 courses, launches leaderboard of top 100 test automation experts

    SAN MATEO, Calif., – Applitools, the leading provider of AI-Powered end-to-end Visual Testing and Monitoring, today announced Test Automation University has surpassed the 20,000 student mark since announcing its first course in January 2019. In addition, Test Automation University has identified the top 100 students based on scores from its 23 courses.

    To see the full list of the Top 100 Test Automation University superstar students, visit: (https://testautomationu.applitools.com/tau100.html)

    Created as a community-driven collection of free educational training resources, Test Automation University (TAU) helps improve test automation skill sets for test engineers and developers. Test Automation University offers video courses with transcripts, quizzes to earn course credits, rankings and badges for more than 20 beginner and advanced test automation courses. The curriculum is provided for free by a faculty of more than 20 expert instructors with a shared goal of increasing test automation success rates globally.

    “For me, the best part of Test Automation University is that it brings the biggest personalities in our field together in one open and easily accessible corner of the internet,” said William de Witt, Test Lead at Western Cape Government. “Also, I can’t express how happy I am that there is no cost to register. This allows everyone in the testing community and those who are interested in QA to see what it is all about. I think that TAU will also play a huge part in raising the standard of test automation globally.”

    To learn, build, identify, aggregate and amplify test automation strategies and techniques for free, enroll at Test Automation University today by visiting (https://testautomationu.com).

    “In looking at the failure rate of test automation initiatives globally, we realized that there was a great need to build a centralized learning platform and a community for test automation engineers,” said Raja Rao DV, Director of content and growth at Applitools and Head of TAU. “What we’ve seen is the creation of an ecosystem where conversations and collaboration can occur freely and openly. We also provided a Slack channel so students can connect with each other and it’s really taken on a life of its own. Not only are people learning from the courses themselves, but they are learning from each other as well. Taking self-paced online courses can be lonely, so it’s been incredible to see TAU students go on the learning journey together.”

    “When we first started Test Automation University, it was to create a one-stop-shop for people interested in test automation because the information was scattered all over the web,” said Angie Jones, senior developer advocate at Applitools and director of TAU. “As we’ve moved forward, we’ve discovered a lot about how people learn and use the platform and we’re constantly making it better. Today, we’re working to curate different paths to help people who are interested in particular subjects, programming languages or technologies to help them advance their knowledge more efficiently. The result is a more clearly defined process that helps our students learn. It’s been amazing to watch the enrollment grow in response.”

    To read more about some of the incredible students of TAU, visit Applitools blog by Angie: (https://applitools.com/blog/test-automation-superstars)

    “In the small company I work for, I’m the one who wrote automated UI tests,” said Penny Howard, QA automation analyst at Flex Rental Solutions. “I didn’t know anyone to ask, or even what to ask when I started, so Google was my best friend. Google tells you everything – the good, the bad, and the ugly. The Java Programming course on Test Automation University has shown me better ways of doing things. The API courses have shown me things about API testing that I simply didn’t know. The most important thing to me is that it is slowly, but surely raising my confidence in my abilities.”

    Initially launched with just a few courses in January 2019, TAU has aggressively expanded its curriculum to now more than 20 courses covering subjects such as:

    These courses are created by world-class instructors who are some of the best and brightest minds in the test automation space. A few of the newest faculty members delivering free video courses on TAU includeAlan Richardson, author of books Java for Testers and Automating and Testing a REST API,  Aparna Gopalakrishnan, Quality Engineering Consultant at Wipro Limited, Tariq King, Head of Quality at Ultimate Software, Meaghan Lewis, Engineering Manager at GitHub, Jonathan Lipps, Architect of the Appium project and Nikolay Advolodkin, CEO of Ultimate QA.

    To join the thousands of people in the Test Automation University community on Slack, visit (https://tauslacksignupapp.herokuapp.com/).

    With more than 20 courses in its current curriculum and additional courses being added every couple of weeks, the growth of TAU seems to just be beginning. “The best part is that the growth of TAU is really exponential,” said Jones. “As more students enroll, we will continue to create even more content to meet their needs — which in turn will lead to more students and an even more vibrant community. We are incredibly excited about where this road will lead to.”

    To learn more about Test Automation University, visit (https://testautomationu.com)

    About Applitools

    Applitools provides a state-of-the-art AI-powered end-to-end visual testing and monitoring platform for Developers, Test Automation, Manual QA, DevOps, and Digital Transformation teams. Our Visual AI technology transforms how organizations approach quality by ensuring web and mobile applications appear and operate exactly as designed across any device, browser, OS, or native application. Applitools is fast, quick to integrate with any DevOps environment, easy to use by anyone on the team, and scalable to any size organization looking to increase speed and quality with every release – an outcome necessary to compete in today’s challenging business environment.

    Hundreds of companies from a range of verticals, including Fortune 100 firms in software, banking, insurance, retail, and pharmaceuticals, use Applitools to deliver the best possible digital experiences to their customers. Applitools is headquartered in San Mateo, California, with an R&D center in Tel Aviv, Israel. For more information, please visit applitools.com.

  • Test Automation University Enrollment Surges to 20,000 in Six Months as Engineers Skill Up to Advance Career Paths

    Fueled by pent-up demand to learn test automation skill sets, the free online educational hub expands to 23 courses, launches leaderboard of top 100 test automation experts

    SAN MATEO, Calif., – July 24, 2019 – Applitools, the leading provider of AI-Powered end-to-end Visual Testing and Monitoring, today announced Test Automation University has surpassed the 20,000 student mark since announcing its first course in January 2019. In addition, Test Automation University has identified the top 100 students based on scores from its 23 courses.

    To see the full list of the Top 100 Test Automation University superstar students, visit: (https://testautomationu.applitools.com/tau100.html)

    Created as a community-driven collection of free educational training resources, Test Automation University (TAU) helps improve test automation skill sets for test engineers and developers. Test Automation University offers video courses with transcripts, quizzes to earn course credits, rankings and badges for more than 20 beginner and advanced test automation courses. The curriculum is provided for free by a faculty of more than 20 expert instructors with a shared goal of increasing test automation success rates globally.

    “For me, the best part of Test Automation University is that it brings the biggest personalities in our field together in one open and easily accessible corner of the internet,” said William de Witt, Test Lead at Western Cape Government. “Also, I can’t express how happy I am that there is no cost to register. This allows everyone in the testing community and those who are interested in QA to see what it is all about. I think that TAU will also play a huge part in raising the standard of test automation globally.”

    To learn, build, identify, aggregate and amplify test automation strategies and techniques for free, enroll at Test Automation University today by visiting (https://testautomationu.com).

    “In looking at the failure rate of test automation initiatives globally, we realized that there was a great need to build a centralized learning platform and a community for test automation engineers,” said Raja Rao DV, Director of content and growth at Applitools and Head of TAU. “What we’ve seen is the creation of an ecosystem where conversations and collaboration can occur freely and openly. We also provided a Slack channel so students can connect with each other and it’s really taken on a life of its own. Not only are people learning from the courses themselves, but they are learning from each other as well. Taking self-paced online courses can be lonely, so it’s been incredible to see TAU students go on the learning journey together.”

    “When we first started Test Automation University, it was to create a one-stop-shop for people interested in test automation because the information was scattered all over the web,” said Angie Jones, senior developer advocate at Applitools and director of TAU. “As we’ve moved forward, we’ve discovered a lot about how people learn and use the platform and we’re constantly making it better. Today, we’re working to curate different paths to help people who are interested in particular subjects, programming languages or technologies to help them advance their knowledge more efficiently. The result is a more clearly defined process that helps our students learn. It’s been amazing to watch the enrollment grow in response.”

    To read more about some of the incredible students of TAU, visit Applitools blog by Angie: (https://applitools.com/blog/test-automation-superstars)

    “In the small company I work for, I’m the one who wrote automated UI tests,” said Penny Howard, QA automation analyst at Flex Rental Solutions. “I didn’t know anyone to ask, or even what to ask when I started, so Google was my best friend. Google tells you everything – the good, the bad, and the ugly. The Java Programming course on Test Automation University has shown me better ways of doing things. The API courses have shown me things about API testing that I simply didn’t know. The most important thing to me is that it is slowly, but surely raising my confidence in my abilities.”

    Initially launched with just a few courses in January 2019, TAU has aggressively expanded its curriculum to now more than 20 courses covering subjects such as:

    These courses are created by world-class instructors who are some of the best and brightest minds in the test automation space. A few of the newest faculty members delivering free video courses on TAU includeAlan Richardson, author of books Java for Testers and Automating and Testing a REST API,  Aparna Gopalakrishnan, Quality Engineering Consultant at Wipro Limited, Tariq King, Head of Quality at Ultimate Software, Meaghan Lewis, Engineering Manager at GitHub, Jonathan Lipps, Architect of the Appium project and Nikolay Advolodkin, CEO of Ultimate QA.

    To join the thousands of people in the Test Automation University community on Slack, visit (https://tauslacksignupapp.herokuapp.com/).

    With more than 20 courses in its current curriculum and additional courses being added every couple of weeks, the growth of TAU seems to just be beginning. “The best part is that the growth of TAU is really exponential,” said Jones. “As more students enroll, we will continue to create even more content to meet their needs — which in turn will lead to more students and an even more vibrant community. We are incredibly excited about where this road will lead to.”

    To learn more about Test Automation University, visit (https://testautomationu.com)

    About Applitools

    Applitools provides a state-of-the-art AI-powered end-to-end visual testing and monitoring platform for Developers, Test Automation, Manual QA, DevOps, and Digital Transformation teams. Our Visual AI technology transforms how organizations approach quality by ensuring web and mobile applications appear and operate exactly as designed across any device, browser, OS, or native application. Applitools is fast, quick to integrate with any DevOps environment, easy to use by anyone on the team, and scalable to any size organization looking to increase speed and quality with every release – an outcome necessary to compete in today’s challenging business environment.

    Hundreds of companies from a range of verticals, including Fortune 100 firms in software, banking, insurance, retail, and pharmaceuticals, use Applitools to deliver the best possible digital experiences to their customers. Applitools is headquartered in San Mateo, California, with an R&D center in Tel Aviv, Israel. For more information, please visit applitools.com.

  • Applitools Launches Free Open Source Software Licensing, Partners with Open Source Apprentice Program

    The company supports diversity in tech initiative, makes automated visual testing available for all open source libraries

    SAN MATEO, Calif., June 18, 2019 — Applitools, a provider of AI Powered end-to-end visual testing and monitoring, today announced a version of its flagship product, Applitools Eyes, is now available for open source libraries. Now, open source projects can add the leading automated visual testing solution to their library at no cost. For more information about Applitools’ open source licensing, visit (https://applitools.com/open-source).

    In addition, Applitools began working with This Dot’s Open Source Apprentice Program to give junior-level developers from a range of backgrounds a path to contributing to open source. This initiative allows Applitools to invest in open source and enable energetic and passionate junior developers to achieve its vision of supporting tech diversity through open source programs and beyond.

    “Applitools is committed to nurturing greater diversity in tech and supporting open source initiatives, and programs with organizations like This Dot help us achieve both outcomes,” said Moshe Milman, co-founder and COO at Applitools. “By making our technology freely available for anyone in the world to use, we can help mentor generations of developers and technologists through more inclusivity.”

    Below are a few of the open source libraries Applitools and This Dot have worked with via the program:

    “Visual testing tools have come a long way from pixel-to-pixel matching,” said Prateek Bhatnagar, Preact Core team member. “Working with Applitools to integrate this into Preact Material has given us the ease of testing we always wanted for this project.”

    Mentorship First

    Gil Tayar, frontend development architect at Applitools, serves as the lead on the integration of this program and works closely with each apprentice. Together, they help accomplish 3 key goals:

    • Provide a platform to teach junior developers visual testing
    • Show how easy it is to integrate visual testing into an open source library
    • Work with open source maintainers to get pull requests merged into real-world projects

    Apprentices have a support system so they never feel alone in their journey, which creates a positive environment to further their development skills. “The apprentice program gave me an opportunity to work on an amazing visual testing tool,” said Megha Sachdev, an open source apprentice. “This program helped me explore a lot of new things like visual testing, handling the front end, and more. It was fun working as a part of this program as it was an ice breaker for me into front end development after a gap of one year in my career.”

    Apprentices are able to dig deeper into the world of testing and provided a reason to familiarize themselves with the Applitools’ visual AI capabilities.

    Open source apprentice Marien Scott, said, “Being a part of this program helped me explore new zones which were completely new to me. I am a backend developer and this program has opened new opportunities for me, for which I’m really thankful.”

    “We’ve been happy to see more underrepresented minorities show interest in furthering their careers in testing and development after the program,” continued Milman. “We hope that these stories help inspire other companies to run similar programs internally because diversification of the tech world is the key to building a better, healthier community.”

    Do you have an open source project that you’d like to start visually testing? Get your free Applitools account at (https://applitools.com/open-source).

    About Applitools

    Applitools provides a state-of-the-art AI-powered end-to-end visual testing and monitoring platform for Developers, Test Automation, Manual QA, DevOps, and Digital Transformation teams. Our Visual AI technology transforms how organizations approach quality by ensuring web and mobile applications appear and operate exactly as designed across any device, browser, OS, or native application. Applitools is fast, quick to integrate with any DevOps environment, easy to use by anyone on the team, and scalable to any size organization looking to increase speed and quality with every release – an outcome necessary to compete in today’s challenging business environment.

    Hundreds of companies from a range of verticals, including Fortune 100 firms in software, banking, insurance, retail, and pharmaceuticals, use Applitools to deliver the best possible digital experiences to their customers. Applitools is headquartered in San Mateo, California, with an R&D center in Tel Aviv, Israel. For more information, please visit https://applitools.com/