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Low code, no code testing platform now includes every component the enterprise needs to deliver Continuous Quality at the Speed of CI-CD

SAN MATEO, Calif., April 2, 2019 – Applitools, a provider of AI Powered end-to-end Visual Testing and monitoring, today announced Applitools Ultrafast Visual Grid as a state of the art testing platform to drive enterprise-wide management of both functional and visual app quality (https://applitools.com/visualgrid). With the release of the Ultrafast Visual Grid, Applitools now delivers the world’s first low-code, super reliable, ultrafast and easy-to-use testing and monitoring platform to support developers, test automation engineers, manual QA, marketing and digital transformation teams for any size company.

“Applitools new Visual Grid is lighting fast. Here at Gannett (USA Today), tests run across 5 browser viewport sizes and mobile device emulators in just seconds. It’s a huge time saving that helps us expand our test coverage, catch more bugs pre-production and still release faster,” said Greg Sypolt, director of quality engineering at Gannett.

Applitools is offering free early access to Visual Grid to select customers through May 31, 2019. To request access, please visit (https://go.applitools.com/vgea.html).

Visual Grid Helps Provide the Fastest, Easiest Path to Test Automation Success

Applitools AI powered end-to-end visual testing and monitoring platform now includes every component the enterprise needs to quickly succeed in its test automation and CI-CD efforts. Applitools Eyes’ core test management, auto maintenance and dashboard functionality allow anyone on the team to author, fix, analyze results and maintain tests easily. The Root Cause Analysis (https://applitools.com/root-cause-analysis) feature allows any user to spot bugs easily and identify the root cause issue in the underlying code. And now, Applitools Ultrafast Visual Grid leverages Visual AI to instantly validate all app elements on all screens eliminating brittle test code and bloated functional test scripts. It perfectly executes most of the tedious and time-consuming tasks associated with outdated testing techniques. Further, this entire offering integrates perfectly with almost any existing CI-CD testing and monitoring environment to eliminate the QA bottleneck that exists today in many companies.

Today Applitools Ultrafast Visual Grid supports Selenium Java, Selenium Javascript, Selenium C#, Selenium Python, Selenium Ruby, Selenium IDE, Webdriver IO, Cypress and Storybook. Additional SDKs will follow quickly with plans to support all 50+ SDKs by the end of 2019. The new complete Applitools offering is powerful, yet simple to use, with backwards compatibility with existing tests. Running existing tests on the new Ultrafast Visual Grid does not require any code changes. It simply boosts the performance of existing tests by executing them 30 to 70 times faster in a much more stable and less flaky environment.

“Applitools Visual Grid integrates seamlessly with our testing framework and provides everything I need to achieve comprehensive cross-browser coverage at the speed of a single test,” said Omri Aharon, Frontend Team Leader at Autodesk.

Challenges Created By CI-CD and Digital Transformation Require a Fast, Easy and Scalable Approach to Continuous Quality

As front end developers continue to make massive gains in productivity to build new features faster, quality management approaches are trapped in legacy test automation technology and infrastructure incapable of properly supporting today’s CI-CD and Digital Transformation needs in terms of speed, reliability, and AI assistance. As a result, quality assurance is a bottleneck to delivering high-quality app releases with the speed and quality necessary to compete in today’s business environment. Existing testing techniques, especially those that rely on large, brittle functional test frameworks are not able to provide the accuracy, speed and agility needed to maintain pace with the evolution of app development technologies, environments and practices. Additionally, the pressures of Digital Transformation, with the constant change of environments, devices, microservices and more, creates huge quality challenges for today’s brands. Using outdated testing techniques, the outcome is a combination of a low release velocity, costly bugs in production and ultimately customer churn that impacts revenue. These brands need testing technology built for today’s CI-CD reality.

Less Code. Less Time. More Coverage. Better Quality.

Applitools new AI powered end-to-end platform allows teams to continuously test and monitor every aspect of the app before, during and after every code change, with a single open-ended assertion that invokes Visual AI and runs visual validations on an Ultrafast Visual Grid for multiple browsers, operating systems, and viewports. Everything is tested concurrently and instantly. Teams can create, fix and analyze test results quickly and pinpoint the root cause of any bug down to the specific lines of code on the page. Developers can then correct issues in minutes and spend more time writing features that solve business problems while still releasing bug-free apps quickly.

“Existing test tools, frameworks and grids are fine for basic data entry and app navigation, but they are code heavy, brittle, slow, expensive and break easily when an app is evolving. That makes them ill-suited to the continuous quality needs of today,” said Gil Sever, co-founder and CEO of Applitools. “Applitools platform, which includes Applitools Eyes AI-Powered Visual Testing and Monitoring tool, together with Applitools Ultrafast Visual Grid, now enables AI powered end-to-end Visual Testing and Monitoring with a fraction of the code, much shorter release cycles and AI features. This helps provide better app quality – drastically improving the clarity, speed and collaboration of communication among dev teams needed to eliminate the QA bottleneck.”

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.

Taught by industry expert Angie Jones, “Setting the Foundation for Successful Test Automation” is the first course available to jumpstart your pathway to becoming a QA automation superstar

SAN MATEO, Calif., January 2, 2019 — Applitools (applitools.com), the leader in Application Visual Management, today released the first of several 2019 courses for Test Automation University – a community-driven collection of educational training courses to help improve test automation skill sets (https://testautomationu.applitools.com/setting-a-foundation-for-successful-test-automation/). Course education materials help improve results from the test automation efforts critical to app release velocity and quality in today’s global business climate. Provided free of charge, these online courses help address the lack of accessibility to an industry-vetted collective of training resources. Instructors include leading test automation experts Angie Jones, Dave Haeffner, Jonathan Lipps, Joe Colantonio, Amber Race, Elisabeth Hocke, Manoj Kumar, Jason Arbon, Raja Rao, and Gil Tayar with many more to be announced throughout 2019.

Every course includes several chapters with video tutorials, transcripts, additional resources, and quizzes to confirm and reinforce learning.  Students who successfully complete courses are rewarded with credits that accumulate and count towards their overall ranking, as well as profile badges to celebrate progress and learning.

Anyone who completes the first Test Automation University course by January 15, 2019, will receive an exclusive New Year’s Resolution badge and an additional 500 credits. Sign-up to participate at https://testautomationu.com.

Setting the Foundation for Successful Test Automation

The first course in the curriculum is now available and contains the following chapters to help students learn about:

• Designing a Test Automation Strategy
• Creating a Culture for Test Automation Success
• Developing for Test Automatability
• Tooling for Test Automation
• Future-proofing Your Test Automation Efforts
• Scaling Your Test Automation
• Measuring the Value of Your Test Automation

“At Test Automation U, we don’t want to limit learning to any one particular school of thought, which is why we are providing a wealth of training materials from a variety of industry veteran instructors all in one centralized location,” said Angie Jones, senior developer advocate at Applitools. “Our first course, meant for all stages of skill sets and career paths, helps students set a foundation for test automation success by thinking through and identifying the core elements of good test automation and applying them before starting a project.”  .”

In the face of digital transformation, as well as continuous integration and continuous deployment initiatives (CI-CD), the shortage of test automation skills is being further exacerbated. Numerous reports from analysts across the globe estimate this gap in skills and talent to reach the hundreds of thousands within only a few years’ time. Test Automation University is a program committed to helping address this challenge. As an open, community-driven educational training program, the community is responsible for identifying, aggregating, and amplifying techniques that will help automation professionals succeed more often. In particular, those responsible for QA (test automation engineers, QA teams, and developers) can take advantage of these offerings immediately. To learn more about Test Automation University, take the demo course at (https://testautomationu.applitools.com/demo-course/).

Additional Test Automation University courses will be released every few weeks throughout 2019 with the following instructors and courses already scheduled:

1. January 1, 2019: Setting a Foundation for Successful Test Automation from Angie Jones
2. January 18, 2019: Design Patterns for Test Automation from Eran Barlev
3. February 1, 2019: Exploring Tools for API Test Automation from Amber Race
4. February 8, 2019: Scaling Automated Tests with Docker from Carlos Kidman
5. February 15, 2019: Automated Visual Testing: A Fast Path To Test Automation Success from Angie Jones
6. March 1, 2019: Incredibly Fast Front-end Testing with Cypress from Gil Tayar
7. March 1, 2019: Codeless Test Automation using the new Selenium IDE from Dave Haeffner
8. March 15, 2019: The Whole Team Approach to Continuous Testing from Elisabeth Hocke
9. March 15, 2019: Advanced Topics in Automated Visual Testing from Raja Rao
10. March 29, 2019: Performance Testing Tools and Techniques: Preparing For The Masses from Amber Race
11. April 12, 2019: Automated Visual Testing of Mobile Apps Using Appium from Jonathan Lipps

About Applitools

Applitools is the creator of Application Visual Management (AVM) to help companies release, test and monitor flawless mobile, web, and native apps in a fully automated way. Founded in 2013, Applitools uses sophisticated AI-powered image processing technology to ensure that an application appears correctly and functions properly on all mobile devices, browsers, operating systems, and screen sizes.

Applitools’ Visual AI engine mimics the human eye and brain to avoid undetected visual bugs, minimizing false positive bug alerts. Applitools Eyes can instantly validate entire application pages and detect layout issues on even the most complex and dynamic pages. When development teams are confident they can fix visual bugs faster, they are unleashed to push more high-quality code than ever before.

Applitools has customers from a range of verticals, including Fortune 100 companies in software, banking, online retail, insurance, and pharmaceuticals. Applitools is headquartered in San Mateo, California, with an R&D center in Tel Aviv, Israel. For more information, please visit applitools.com.

AI-powered Root Cause Analysis slashes bug remediation times, enabling development teams to keep application projects on-time and on quality

SAN MATEO, Calif., December 5, 2018 — Applitools (applitools.com), the leader in Application Visual Management (AVM), today announced the industry’s first automated root cause analysis for bugs within web applications. For the first time, front-end developers and QA professionals can pinpoint the cause of bugs in application code within minutes, eliminating hours from traditional bug diagnosis practices and enabling companies to keep software projects and digital transformation initiatives on schedule.

Applitools Root Cause Analysis shows what DOM and CSS differences underpin each visual difference between a baseline screenshot and a test screenshot and comprise the “root cause” of the bug.  Rather than digging through thousands of lines of DOM and CSS to find the root cause, developers typically only need to look at several lines. This makes bug fixing go faster and helps app teams be more productive and release on time.

Relatedly, Applitools has extended its user interface version control so that it now includes DOM and CSS associated with each screenshot. This enables development teams to see not only how the visual appearance of a web application has evolved over time, but also how its underlying DOM and CSS have changed. This makes it easier for development teams to roll back new features that are not meeting business needs.

 

To get started with Applitools’ new Root Cause Analysis tool, sign up for a free Applitools Eyes account at (https://applitools.com/rca).

 

“Root cause analysis for visual testing will significantly shorten the mean time to resolution of application bugs from hours down to minutes,” said Adam Carmi, CTO of Applitools. “By identifying the exact location and cause of a visual bug within a few lines of code rather than sifting through hundreds or thousands of lines of code, the increase in productivity from developers and QA teams creates a lasting benefit to the application and product owners, digital transformation managers, and ultimately, the business’ bottom line.”

 

Businesses need to test their applications on an increasingly larger set of devices, browsers, screen sizes, and operating systems. These constantly growing test matrices create more challenges for developers and test automation engineers. By allowing these teams to confidently find and fix bugs as quickly as possible, Applitools Root Cause Analysis helps companies to release better apps faster than their competition.

 

About Applitools

Applitools is the creator of Application Visual Management (AVM) to help companies release, test and monitor flawless mobile, web, and native apps in a fully automated way. Founded in 2013, Applitools uses sophisticated AI-powered image processing technology to ensure that an application appears correctly and functions properly on all mobile devices, browsers, operating systems, and screen sizes.

 

Applitools’ Visual AI engine mimics the human eye and brain to avoid undetected visual bugs, minimizing false positive bug alerts. Applitools Eyes can instantly validate entire application pages and detect layout issues on even the most complex and dynamic pages. When development teams are confident they can fix visual bugs faster, they are unleashed to push more high-quality code than ever before.

 

Applitools has customers from a range of verticals, including Fortune 100 companies in software, banking, online retail, insurance, and pharmaceuticals. Applitools is headquartered in San Mateo, California, with an R&D center in Tel Aviv, Israel. For more information, please visit applitools.com.

 

 

Led by Applitools newcomer Angie Jones, ‘Test Automation U’ aims to be a top collective for anyone to access information needed along the pathway to test automation success

SAN MATEO, Calif., November 15, 2018 — Applitools (applitools.com/), the leader in Application Visual Management, today announced Test Automation University – a community-driven collection of educational training resources to help improve test automation skill sets. With initial offerings by test automation experts Angie Jones, Dave Haeffner, Jonathan Lipps, Joe Colantonio, Amber Race, Elisabeth Hocke, Manoj Kumar,Jason Arbon, Raja Rao, and Gil Tayar, ‘Test Automation U’ aims to bring a community of technical professionals – including testers, engineers and developers – together to build, identify, aggregate, and amplify best practices in test automation strategies and techniques. Additional experts will be added throughout 2019 with courses offered for syndication and live training through global industry events. Full details of the initiative including descriptions of initial courses, curriculum, and community engagement opportunities will be unveiled in an upcoming webinar hosted by Angie Jones.

Enroll here for free to join Test Automation U, get involved with the community, and register for the webinar with Angie Jones detailing the initiative at (http://go.applitools.com/181129-Test-Automation-U-Unveiled.html)

“We feel it is in everyone’s best interest to invest in people’s understanding of test automation and how to implement it the right way from the very beginning,” said Angie Jones, former automation engineer at Twitter and now a senior developer advocate at Applitools. “Providing a quality source of community-driven, vetted information – for all stages of skill sets and career paths within test automation – will help individuals and companies alike close the talent gap in automation engineering. I am thrilled to join the Applitools team, which is committed to a collaborative and self-learning education program for all to benefit and all to be involved.”

Jones is the most recent test automation expert to join the growing Applitools’ roster, as the company continues to expand its operations globally in support of best-of-breed test automation practices. Angie, an internationally recognized thought leader and technology mentor, joins recent hire Dave Haeffner, author of The Selenium Guidebook, veteran Gil Tayar, senior architect and evangelist, and former Salesforce developer evangelist Raja Rao as initial collaborators on the Test Automation U project. “The goal is to encourage a wide range of expert contributions to help businesses create a world with higher quality applications, released faster with better customer experiences than ever before,” Jones continued. “With a growing demand for test automation and the advent of testing practices shifting left in the software delivery lifecycle, we want to create a shared space to support the top practices needed for successful test automation.”

Test Automation U Curriculum: More Than 10 Free Courses Planned In Next Six Months

Over the course of the next several months, collaborators will unveil courses and associated curriculum to aid in the development of skill sets related to test automation. While the first courses will launch on January 2019, eleven initial courses have been identified including:

Foundational Test Automation Courses

Setting a Foundation for Successful Test Automation (Angie Jones)

A Guide to Codeless Test Automation (Dave Haeffner)

Performance Testing Tools and Techniques: Preparing For The Masses (Amber Race)

The Whole Team Approach to Continuous Testing (Elisabeth Hocke)

Automated Visual Testing Courses

Automated Visual Testing: A Fast Path To Test Automation Success (Angie Jones)

How To Visually Validate Your Mobile Applications (Jonathan Lipps)

CI/CD, UI Version Control and Root Cause Analysis: An Advanced Course In Automated Visual Testing (Raja Rao)

Visual Validation For Frontend Developers (Gil Tayar)

Test Automation for Real World Problems

Testing In The Real World: Success Stories You Can Learn From (Joe Colantonio)

An Inclusive Web for Everybody: Test Automation for Accessibility (Manoj Kumar)

AI for Element Selection: Erasing the Pain of Fragile Test Scripts (Jason Arbon)

An initial course from Angie Jones entitled “Setting a Foundation for Successful Test Automation” will launch Test Automation U in January 2019 focusing on training and tutorials in seven chapters including:

How to Design an Automation Strategy

Creating a Culture of Success in your Organization

Developing for Testability

Tooling for Testability

Future-proofing your Test Automation Efforts

Test Automation Optimization and Scaling

Quantifying and Sharing the Value of Test Automation

“The talent gap is huge when it comes to test automation initiatives, and many programs get delayed or even fail because of this,” explained Jones. “What is great about Test Automation U is that we’re opening the doors to all schools of thought, capturing the knowledge, and distributing it openly in relevant locations. No matter what role you’re playing in the software development process, it’s extremely important for everyone to collaborate and work together.”

To learn more about test automation practices from the Applitools team, visit: (https://applitools.com/blog)

About Applitools

Applitools is the creator of Application Visual Management (AVM) to help companies release, test and monitor flawless mobile, web, and native apps in a fully automated way. Founded in 2013, Applitools uses sophisticated AI-powered image processing technology to ensure that an application appears correctly and functions properly on all mobile devices, browsers, operating systems, and screen sizes. Applitools has customers from a range of verticals, including Fortune 100 companies in software, banking, online retail, insurance, and pharmaceuticals. Applitools is headquartered in San Mateo, California, with an R&D center in Tel Aviv, Israel. For more information, please visit applitools.com.

 

AI-powered visual UI testing technology provides automated visual validation of apps, unclogging critical software delivery bottlenecks hindering digital transformation

 

SAN MATEO, Calif., October 4, 2018 — Applitools (applitools.com), the leader in Application Visual Management, today announced Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) recognized its AI-powered visual UI testing platform, Applitools Eyes, as a top enterprise software product leveraging AI and Machine Learning (ML) to unclog DevOps and smooth digital transformation. According to the report, AI is now the number one strategic enterprise IT investment priority in 2018.

 

Read the full “EMA Top 3 Enterprise Decision Guide for AI and Machine Learning” here: (http://go.applitools.com/2018-EMA-AI-Report)

 

Applitools developed the first and only AI-powered image comparison technology that mimics the human eye and brain to streamline testing of web and mobile applications. The Visual AI engine only reports differences that are perceptible to users and reliably ignore invisible rendering, size and position differences. The algorithms can instantly validate entire application pages, detect layout issues, and process the most complex and dynamic pages. With tens of thousands of users across more than 300 customers, test automation engineers and developers have used Applitools Eyes to perform more than 100 million visual comparisons and one billion component level validations.

 

To get started with Applitools, sign up for a free Applitools Eyes account at (https://applitools.com/landing/free-account-qa).

 

“Transitioning from releasing new software once every quarter to a state where small teams can respond to new feature requests or patch requirements within days exponentially increases the workload for test engineers,” says Torsten Volk, Managing Research Director at Enterprise Management Associates. “Applitools applies a combination of AI/ML and traditional instruction-based coding to reduce the workload of test engineers by consolidating repetitive tasks and by training AI/ML models to only raise red flags when it recognizes a problem with actual end-user impact. Applitools made it into the EMA Top 3 for AI in DevOps, as the software uses AI to achieve the same level of test coverage with the same number of engineers and without slowing down the continuous release process.”

 

According to the report, respondents state that it’s crucial to eliminate operational silos as a root cause of quality and speed bottlenecks among DevOps teams. Applitools is focused on exactly these problems.

 

To improve quality, Applitools lets DevOps teams implement visual testing and finds bugs that traditional functional testing misses. Combining visual and functional testing into a DevOps toolchain results in better app quality.

 

To increase speed, Applitools uses AI to highlight only significant visual bugs, ignoring visual differences that won’t matter to customers. The result: QA never wastes developer time on insignificant visual bugs.

 

“We are honored to be selected as a Top 3 enterprise software provider in EMA Research’s new report on AI and machine learning in DevOps,” said Adam Carmi, co-founder and CTO of Applitools. “Consumer interactions with businesses are more frequently occurring through digital user interfaces. This puts development and operations teams under the gun to deliver a visually flawless brand experience across all devices, browsers and operating systems. By allowing AI to automate visual validation of web and mobile applications, businesses streamline their DevOps processes and thus their digital transformation.”

 

For a full video discussion with Torsten Volk and Applitools CTO Adam Carmi, go here: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yb3MWlJn_fQ)

 

About Applitools

Applitools is the creator of Application Visual Management (AVM) to help companies release, test and monitor flawless mobile, web, and native apps in a fully automated way. Founded in 2013, Applitools uses sophisticated AI-powered image processing technology to ensure that an application appears correctly and functions properly on all mobile devices, browsers, operating systems, and screen sizes. Applitools has customers from a range of verticals, including Fortune 100 companies in software, banking, online retail, insurance, and pharmaceuticals. Applitools is headquartered in San Mateo, California, with an R&D center in Tel Aviv, Israel. For more information, please visit applitools.com.

 

Finally, product teams can directly link GitHub code changes to visual changes in the UI

SAN MATEO, Calif., September 13, 2018 — Applitools (applitools.com/), the leader in Application Visual Management, today announced the world’s first UI Version Control system, empowering developers, test automation engineers, and product managers to view the entire history of their web and mobile application user interfaces (UI) to understand what’s changed, when, and by whom. This lets R&D and product teams more intelligently guide app development by providing a visual record of which features have worked, and which haven’t, across the entire history of the app.

In addition, Applitools UI Version Control system automatically runs visual tests as part of a GitHub build process. By performing visual validations for GitHub pull requests, it prevents visual bugs from escaping into production apps.

“Applitools’ new UI Version Control system gives us insight into the UI changes in our software and the underlying code changes,” comments Nicholas Blair, Engineering Manager at Sonatype. “With full visibility into what changed in the UI, why it changed, and who changed it, we are able to release faster, more often, and with high confidence.”

To get started with Applitools, sign up for a free Applitools Eyes account at (https://applitools.com/landing/free-account-qa).

Prior to Applitools UI Version Control system, developers had to build an earlier version of an app to see how it previously looked. This process could take hours if not days, distracting product teams from delivering new functionality and negatively impacting customer churn and revenue.

“We were amazed that, with so many businesses driving the bulk of their revenue through web and mobile apps, there wasn’t a way for product teams to track the visual evolution of the UIs. So we built one,” said Adam Carmi, co-founder and CTO of Applitools. “UI version control lets product teams build smarter by capturing the entire visual history of their apps, so they have a record of what’s been improved — and what should be rolled back if the need arises. UI version control provides mission critical knowledge to help businesses manage the challenges linked to digital transformation.”

For a full video tutorial of Applitools new UI version control from our CTO Adam Carmi go here: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEk2_Hnw1MY)

Applitools UI version control works just like source code version control that developers are already familiar with. Visual baseline branches can be merged in the same way that code changes are merged. For each branch in a GitHub project repository, users can see the history of all their test baselines, compare them to prior baseline versions, and if necessary, revert to an earlier version. They can then reject and/or revert to any baseline modified by accident or by design.

Applitools UI Version Control is now immediately available to all Applitools customers. If you are interested in talking to an automated visual testing expert please contact us (https://applitools.com/contact).

About Applitools

Applitools is the creator of Application Visual Management (AVM) to help companies release, test and monitor flawless mobile, web, and native apps in a fully automated way. Founded in 2013, Applitools uses sophisticated AI-powered image processing technology to ensure that an application appears correctly and functions properly on all mobile devices, browsers, operating systems, and screen sizes. Applitools has customers from a range of verticals, including Fortune 100 companies in software, banking, online retail, insurance, and pharmaceuticals. Applitools is headquartered in San Mateo, California, with an R&D center in Tel Aviv, Israel. For more information, please visit applitools.com.

 

Company recognized as a top startup for its AI powered visual UI testing and monitoring approach to Application Visual Management

SAN MATEO, Calif., June 26, 2018 — Applitools (https://applitools.com/), the leader in Application Visual Management, today announced it won the 2018 Red Herring Top 100 North America award The Red Herring Top 100 identified Applitools as one of this year’s most promising private ventures from the North American business region out of a group of approximately 1,200 privately financed companies.

“We are honored to receive the Red Herring Top 100,” said Gil Sever, CEO of Applitools. “This recognition is a testament to the hard work and dedication of the Applitools team as we continue to grow our R&D and our sales teams to rapidly drive the market expansion of Visual AI and its utility for automated visual UI testing and monitoring.”

Applitools developed the first and only Visual AI Engine that mimics the human eye and brain in a reliable and scalable fashion, and continues to evolve through machine learning by analyzing millions of new images on a daily basis. Applitools Eyes, the company’s Automated Visual UI Testing and Monitoring Platform, achieves 99.999 percent accuracy and leverages the largest data set of UI validations in the world – a total of 100 million visual comparisons and one billion component level validations.

With tens of thousands of users from more than 300 customers around the globe, Applitools helps Test Automation Engineers, Developers, Manual QA experts, DevOps Teams, and Digital Transformation executives holistically support all visual aspects of software applications. With increasing demand of digital products and experiences, companies must leverage Application Visual Management (AVM) as a strategic advantage to shorten application delivery cycles while improving software quality.

About Red Herring Top 100 North America

Red Herring’s editors have been evaluating the world’s startups and tech companies for over two decades. It gives them the ability to see through the industry’s hype, to pick firms that will continue on a trajectory to success. Brands such as Alibaba, Google, Kakao, Skype, Spotify, Twitter and YouTube have all been singled out in Red Herring’s storied history.

“2018’s crop of Top 100 winners has been among our most intriguing yet,” said Red Herring chairman Alex Vieux. “North America has led the way in tech for so many years, and to see such unique, pioneering entrepreneurs and companies here in California, which is in many ways the heartland of the industry, has been a thrilling experience.”

“What has excited me most is to see so many people forging niches in high-tech and cutting edge sectors,” added Vieux. “Some of the technical wizardry and first-rate business models on show here at the conference has been fantastic to learn about. We believe Applitools embodies the drive, skill and passion on which tech thrives. Applitools should be proud of its achievement: the competition was incredibly strong.”

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About Applitools

Applitools is the creator of Application Visual Management (AVM) to help companies release, test and monitor flawless mobile, web, and native apps in a fully automated way. Founded in 2013, Applitools uses sophisticated AI-powered image processing technology to ensure that an application appears correctly and functions properly on all mobile devices, browsers, operating systems, and screen sizes. Applitools has customers from a range of verticals, including Fortune 100 companies in software, banking, online retail, insurance, and pharmaceuticals. Applitools is headquartered in San Mateo, California, with an R&D center in Tel Aviv, Israel. For more information, please visit applitools.com.

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Digital Transformation drives rapid market expansion of Visual AI from automated UI testing and monitoring to holistic support of all visual aspects of software applications

 

SAN MATEO, Calif., April 17, 2018 – Applitools (https://applitools.com), the leader in Application Visual Management, today announced it has raised $31 million in Series C funding led by OpenView, the expansion stage venture firm, with participation from its existing investors Sierra Ventures, Magma Venture Partners, iAngels, and La Maison. Applitools will use this investment to fuel market expansion of its Artificial Intelligence (AI) Powered Visual Testing and Monitoring solution by scaling its R&D, Operations, and Sales. With tens of thousands of users across more than 300 companies, Applitools Eyes recently crossed a total of 100 million visual comparisons and one billion component level validations. Since it was founded in 2013, Applitools has raised more than $46 million.

 

Read more about the next phase of Applitools’ company journey at: (https://applitools.com/the-next-phase-of-the-applitools-journey).

 

“Our mission is to help customers automate all visual aspects of application delivery, and address the growing importance of providing exceptional digital experiences across any device, browser, operating system, and language,” said Gil Sever, CEO of Applitools. “We are excited to partner with OpenView to scale our enterprise-grade platform to support digital transformation with the velocity and quality that businesses demand.”

 

Applitools developed the first and only Visual AI Engine that mimics the human eye and brain in a reliable and scalable fashion. Applitools Eyes (https://applitools.com/features), the company’s Automated Visual AI Testing and Monitoring Platform, leverages the largest data set of UI validations in the world and achieves 99.999 percent accuracy, i.e. less than 10 false detections in a million comparisons. The company’s AI engine continues to evolve through machine learning by analyzing millions of new images on a daily basis.

 

Applitools’ Automated Visual AI Testing and Monitoring Platform v10 is available now. To learn more and open a free trial account, visit: (https://applitools.com/users/register).

 

“If there’s a single commonality of the fastest growing companies it’s that they understand their brand is the sum of every experience a customer has with you,” said Bill Macaitis, former CMO at Slack, Zendesk and SVP Marketing at Salesforce. “The need to deliver delightful, incredible digital experiences to millions of customers, 24/7, on a breadth of devices, browsers, and operating systems can be daunting. Applitools makes it easy via their Application Visual Management (AVM) approach, which enables automated validation of every aspect of the visual user experience. Applitools is a game changer.”

 

“OpenView is thrilled to partner with the Applitools team as they solve for one of the few remaining bottlenecks in the continuous delivery process – visual testing,” said Jim Baum, Venture Partner at OpenView who joins the Applitools board. “For modern enterprises, a web or mobile application is the face of their brand and Applitools provides a crucial protective layer.” Jim will bring world class operational experience to Applitools’ Board of Directors, as he was CEO of Netezza and took the company public and later drove its acquisition by IBM in 2010 for nearly $2B.

 

To help guide Test Automation Engineers, DevOps Teams, Front End Developers, Manual QA experts, and Digital Transformation executives, Applitools created Application Visual Management – a new category framework that simplifies and automates all visual aspects of application creation, testing, delivery and monitoring. The goal is to help shorten application delivery cycles and improve software quality because what the customer sees is what matters most. By helping prevent visual flaws from occurring in the application delivery process, teams can avoid the issues that frequently result from events such as browser and operating system updates, new devices penetrating the marketplace, and the effects of dynamic content on the web.

 

Today’s DevOps toolchain only supports the functional aspects of modern application delivery in areas like testing, monitoring, Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD), accessibility, security, bug tracking, collaboration, source control, and more. AVM applies Visual AI technology to add automated visual validation of all the visual aspects of application delivery to the DevOps toolchain, allowing acceleration and full automation of the entire delivery process. Fortune 100 companies have already realized significant benefits through the use of Visual AI technology and those benefits can now be offered to any Enterprise or SMB. This round of funding will be used to expand the offering with new capabilities and to target users across the entire software development, delivery, and monitoring toolchain.

 

To learn more about AVM, download the Application Visual Management whitepaper for free at: (http://go.applitools.com/AVM-Category-Whitepaper.html).

 

About Applitools

Applitools is on a mission to help Test Automation Engineers, DevOps Teams, Frontend Developers, and Digital Transformation Executives release, test and monitor flawless mobile, web, and native apps in a fully automated way that enables Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI-CD). Founded in 2013, Applitools uses sophisticated AI powered image processing technology to ensure that an application appears correctly and functions properly on all mobile devices, browsers, operating systems and screen sizes. Applitools has more than 300 customers from a range of verticals, including Fortune 100 companies in software, banking, online retail, insurance, pharmaceuticals, and more. Applitools is headquartered in San Mateo, California, with an R&D center in Tel Aviv, Israel. For more information, please visit applitools.com.

 

About OpenView

OpenView, the expansion stage venture firm, helps build software companies into market leaders. Through its Expansion Platform, OpenView helps companies hire the best talent, acquire and retain the right customers and partner with industry leaders so they can dominate their markets. Their focus on the expansion stage makes OpenView uniquely suited to provide truly tailored operational support to its portfolio companies. Learn more about OpenView at openviewpartners.com.