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  • Perfecto by Perforce Advances Shift-Left Mobile Testing at Scale, Powers Early Detection of Issues and Faster Feedback With Virtual Devices

    With virtual device testing available in the Perfecto’s cloud-based Intelligent Test Automation platform, businesses can accelerate release velocity by empowering developers with fast feedback

    MINNEAPOLIS, May 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Perforce Software, a provider of solutions to enterprise teams requiring productivity, visibility, and scale along the development lifecycle, announced today the availability of virtual devices (Android emulators and iOS simulators) as part of the comprehensive device lab within Perfecto’s Intelligent Test Automation platform.

    “By strategically testing on virtual devices, organizations give developers faster feedback, so they can catch and fix issues quickly without interrupting their workflows,” said Eran Kinsbruner, DevOps evangelist at Perforce. “Virtual devices complement real device testing later in the cycle to deliver a powerful, comprehensive combination for getting feedback quickly without compromising application quality.”

    With Perfecto’s new iOS simulators and Android emulators, mobile app developers and testers can perform manual and Appium-based test automation in parallel, in the cloud, and across different geographies.

    The feature is announced following highly successful implementations with several Perfecto customers.

    “Combining real device testing along with emulators and simulators at the appropriate phases in the development cycle allowed us to maintain app quality and speed up our testing efforts,” said one Perfecto Fortune 500 customer. “The scale and reliability we have achieved with Perfecto is remarkable.”

    With Perfecto, the fast feedback enabled by virtual devices is accelerated by intelligent dashboards. Teams testing on virtual devices within Perfecto have the same access to the platform’s AI-driven reporting and analytics, which reduce the noise created by false positives, detect root causes, and provide a single place for managers, QA, and developers to align on all quality metrics.

    This latest release comes only weeks after Perfecto announced support for the developer-friendly Cypress framework and scriptless testing as part of its expanded E2E web testing capabilities.

    To learn more, visit perfecto.io.

    About Perforce  
    Perforce powers innovation at unrivaled scale. Perforce solutions future-proof competitive advantage by driving quality, security, compliance, collaboration, and speed – across the technology lifecycle. We bring deep domain and vertical expertise to every customer, so nothing stands in the way of success. Our global footprint spans more than 80 countries and includes over 75% of the Fortune 100. Perforce is trusted by the world’s leading brands to deliver solutions to even the toughest challenges. Accelerate technology delivery, with no shortcuts. Get the Power of Perforce.

     

  • DevOps Chat: Perforce Acquires Perfecto Mobile

    DevOps Chat: Perforce Acquires Perfecto Mobile

    Consolidation is in the air, as two well-known players in the DevOps space—Perforce and Perfecto Mobile—are joining forces. Perforce has announced its intent to acquire Perfecto Mobile for its mobile and web automation testing technology, which, when combined with Perforce’s existing portfolio, will better enable organizations to achieve continuous testing at scale. It’s a great combination and one I believe will be well-received in the industry.

    Perforce CEO Mark Ties and Perfecto Mobile COE Eran Yaniv spoke with me about the acquisition and its potential impact on the testing space as a whole, and Perforce’s plans for more acquisitions down the road.

    As usual, the streaming audio is immediately below, followed by the transcript of our conversation.

    Alan Shimel: Hey, everyone. It’s Alan Shimel, devopsy.kinsta.cloud, and you’re listening to another DevOps Chat. Today’s DevOps Chat is breaking some big news. The news involves the merger – acquisitions and merger of Perforce and Perfecto Mobile, two pretty well-known brands in the DevOps space. News just came out this morning and we have with us the CEO of Perforce, Mark Ties, as well as the CEO of Perfecto, Eran Yaniv, and if I mispronounced anyone’s name I do apologize in advance. But gentlemen, welcome.

    Eran Yaniv: Thank you.

    Mark Ties: Thank you very much. Great to be here.

    Shimel: Thank you. So guys, you know, I was lucky enough to sell a company or two in my time, and then one of the companies I helped found we did about 30 acquisitions in 36 months so it was almost one a month. It was a little crazy. But, you know, a wise man much older, wiser, and wealthier than myself told me that any time you can, you know, found a company and someone buys it, whether it be a merger, acquisition, whatever you want to call it, but you find a suitor who’s willing to pay significant money, it is a – it is something to be proud of, right? It’s an accomplishment. So congratulations to you,  Eran. You know, any time you can CEO a company that has some sort of liquidity in that, it’s a good thing. So congratulations. And Mark –

    Yaniv: Thank you very much.

    Shimel: – on the other hand – thank – you’re welcome. Mark, on the other hand, any time you could, you know, take the helm of a company that’s out here and getting entrepreneurs to actually, you know, trust you with their baby, so to speak, and it shows a level of trust that you will do right by them and right by their customers, so congratulations to you as well.

    Ties: Thank you.

    Shimel: Let’s dive in a little bit though, Mark. What kind of drove this? What drove the acquisition here or the merger?

    Ties: Since we acquired the management team at Perforce, acquired Perforce a couple years ago, and we’ve been on a journey here to create what we believe will be a strong DevOps player in numerous assets of the space, and as of recently we’ve been very focused on the testing environment witnessed by our earlier-in-the-year acquisition of PRQA and Static Code Analysis and now Perfecto, so Eran and I have been chatting for a number of months here and we’re just, you know, absolutely excited, ecstatic, that we’ve gotten the opportunity here to partner with his cofounder Yoram and himself and the rest of the Perfecto team to bring their capabilities in web and mobile testing into the Perforce family, so that’s really what drove it, is our focus on testing and then their industry-leading capabilities.

    Shimel: Sure. Eran, what about you? You know, Perfecto Mobile – I mean I’ve had devopsy.kinsta.cloud now for four and a half years with publishing. Perfecto’s always been on the scene. We’ve had the pleasure of doing webinars and reports and conferences, sponsorships with Perfecto. What was the, you know, impetus to do this deal now?

    Yaniv: Well we were kind of discussing this internally for a while now, and when we look at the market we believe because the market is evolving more and more towards implementing DevOps-related processes when there is a requirement with which we call internally a gorilla in the market. The decline of CAs and, you know, IBMs and the HPs of the world is actually opening up – has actually opened up quite a few opportunities and we thought that – we think that the development of a very strong leader in the DevOps market is something that is required, that the market is actually requiring. And so we, you know, were looking around to see what companies are out there that would make sense for us to merge with or acquire or get acquired; something that would create something of a bigger size and a bigger voice in this market.

    And, you know, there were various options but we – you know, I really like this notion Perforce because I think nobody in the market really saw it coming, and for us it’s a very exciting opportunity because the offerings are complementing – even complementing status in terms of the install base, so the opportunity was there to actually make it happen and, you know, it aligns really nicely with what we were thinking about the market, so we went forward.

    Shimel: Absolutely. Well, you know, if I may add my own armchair quarterback –

    Yaniv: I’ve got to say one more – I’ve just got to say one more point that I think is very important, and that is the initial chemistry with the team at Perforce made it a very easy decision.

    Shimel: You know, Eran, on that point I will tell you just this culture is important in DevOps in doing mergers and deals like this. The chemistry of the teams is as important or more important sometimes than even the numbers in the books, right? Because the merger doesn’t end on the day of the merger; it only begins. And, you know, it’s important that you have that in there. If I can offer my two cents as an armchair quarterback, I think what we’re seeing here is also the result of a larger trend in the DevOps space.

    You spoke about CA, which is, you know, now getting acquired by Broadcom and there’s perhaps uncertainty there, the IBMs – you know, certainly while these companies played in the DevOps space they weren’t necessarily perceived leaders in DevOps, in the DevOps space and, you know, when you see a company like GitHub, which started out as a code repository, right – it did open source good – getting purchased for, you know, this $7.5 billion by Microsoft, it wasn’t just as a code repository, obviously. And, you know, just recently in the last two, three, four weeks companies like GitLab, you know, with $100 million raise, $1 billion-plus valuation, last week it was JFrog with a DevOps platform with $165 million raise, over $200 million raised – you would have to assume they’re also over $1 billion – it certainly seems like the time is ripe for size.

    Size matters in DevOps, right? Size and scale matter. And so, Mark – go ahead.

    Yaniv: I was going to say that we are seeing these things actually happening in the market. _____ is making all kinds of –

    Shimel: Sure.

    Yaniv: _____ primarily in the _____ area. The thing that I like about the Perforce Clearlake, if you will, in conversations with – and this is what I really like, is the fact that they are dead serious about what they are doing and their moves are very, very quick and they’re very nimble in their decisions and that’s something that makes a lot of sense and it also coincides with what DevOps is all about, right? So I think that’s a great addition.

    Shimel: Absolutely. Mark, let’s hear from you. You know, what’s Perforce’s take on this? Are you in violent agreement or maybe something else to it?

    Ties: I’m in violent agreement with the number of the comments that you’ve made. You know, the space – you know, the research that we’ve done around the space for the last three-plus years now is that this space and environment is going to consolidate, and as a result of that consolidation, you know, those players that can put together best-of-breed technology, that can bring the value that the customer’s ultimately desire or need will be – you know, they will be the players that will rise to the top, and we believe we’re doing that with our version control solution _____ Perforce with our _____ solution and now with web and mobile solutions with Perfecto along with the other technologies that we have. So I’m in violent agreement with that. You know, this won’t be the last acquisition that Perforce will do.

    I mean we’ve done five now; I could see us easily, you know, doing five additional acquisitions and continuing to grow this business. So that’s one point I’m in violent agreement with. The other point is that, you know, to your earlier point about the people and the culture and Eran’s as well, you know, it’s hard but it’s easy to buy a company. It’s harder to make that company successful –

    Shimel: Exactly.

    Ties: – during the acquisition, and I think all of the personalities on both sides of the fence with the Perfecto team and with our team are focused on one thing, which is creating a great company that has great products, phenomenal customer support, and then ultimately new customers. So it’s just – this is a great marriage and, you know, I look forward to continuing to drive it with my team with Eran and with Yoram and the entire Perfecto team.

    Shimel: Absolutely. On that point, let me ask what are the plans? Eran, will you be staying on? What will your role be? What about the rest of your executive team?

    Ties: Yeah so, you know, again, we’re in the days – we’re in the early days here, but the hope on my end is that Eran and team stay around and Eran will be leading this business as an independent segment, subsidiary, whatever you’d like to call it of the Perforce family reporting directly into me, so that is the plan. Now we do have teams obviously from both sides of the house working on the formal integration and how we’ll bring the companies together over the days, weeks, and months to come. We’ve just signed the agreement here earlier this week and we hope to close it by the end of the month.

    And, you know, we will take our time. We will be very diligent in what we’re doing here so that we do not disrupt either businesses, because right now both businesses have been very successful.

    Shimel: Excellent. Mark, I’ve got a question for you. You know, with each of the kind of deals and money raises that I mentioned earlier, I’ve spoken one-on-one with the CEOs, and one of the things I’ve asked them is what is their vision for how their company – you know, where does their company fit into the larger DevOps? You know, so for instance, GitLab wants the first true end-to-end DevOps product line. Shlomi Ben Haim at JFrog, they want a true DevOps platform that handles all artifacts, anything related to artifacts.

    Can you succinctly give us what is the vision – right? – for Perforce? What – you know, when you’ve done 5 more acquisitions, 10 more acquisitions, whatever it is, what’s the vision for what Perforce will become and what you’re striving for?

    Ties: Yes. So there are some very grandiose visions out there, and you’ve mentioned a couple of them. Ours is very simple; we want to be the enterprise player at scale. I mean we provide a very strong solution to enterprise customers that are looking for speed, scalability, security – to name a few of the attributes of the products that they’re purchasing and look to acquire as their providers. So that’s what we’re looking to do, win every inch. All right? We’re not gonna win every market vertical, but the verticals that we choose to go down our plans are to do nothing but dominate them, and so that’s why we’re looking for industry leaders like the Perfecto solution, like the Perforce solution and the others that we’ve acquired, to make sure that we continue to demonstrate the need that our enterprise customers have.

    Shimel: Fantastic.

    Yaniv: And this – and if I may, investing in the vision that Mark articulated around the enterprise aligns extremely well with what we were thinking back in a narrow – if you will, in a narrow space, which is around the continuous testing. But in the notion of addressing the enterprise and the specific ____ that we would be strong at, would make the vision, the joint vision, something that is really great, and that made it also very, very easy for us to _____.

    Shimel: Excellent, excellent. Well, gentlemen, let me wish you both success and congratulations. We’re about out of time here on this DevOps Chat, and I’m sure you’re both very busy. It is an exciting day. Maybe we can check back in a few months when the dust settles a little bit and see how things are going and where you’re headed from there, all right?

    Ties: Great. More than happy to –

    Yaniv: I’d be happy to.

    Ties: – continue the conversation. Thank you.

    Shimel: Okay. Mike Ties, CEO of Perforce, Eran Yaniv, CEO of Perfecto, Announcing the merger of their two companies, and as Perforce continues to scale in the DevOps space. Thanks for being this episode’s guest on DevOps chat, gentlemen. This is Alan Shimel for devopsy.kinsta.cloud and you’ve just listened to another DevOps Chat.

    — Alan Shimel

  • Perforce Acquires Perfecto Mobile to Drive DevOps Consolidation

    Perforce Acquires Perfecto Mobile to Drive DevOps Consolidation

    Perforce this week announced it plans to acquire Perfecto Mobile, a provider of automated application development tools, in a move that signals a potential wave of consolidation across the DevOps sector. Perfecto Mobile is the fifth acquisition Perforce has made in the last two years, and company CEO Mark Ties said there will be more to come.

    Schedule to close later this year, the acquisition is estimated to be about $200 million.

    The primary driver of this wave of consolidation is access to inexpensive capital coupled with mainstream adoption of DevOps processes that is requiring many startup companies to scale beyond their means, Ties said.

    As a provider of a cloud-based set of tools for automating the testing of web and mobile applications using a variety of open source frameworks, Perfecto Mobile will complement a portfolio of application testing tools based mainly on the technologies Perforce gained when it acquired PRKA earlier this year. Perfecto Mobile currently has more than 3,000 customers.

    Application testing, along with application development and deployment, increasingly is shifting to the left as developers assume more responsibility for the overall application environment. Instead of relying mainly on a dedicated team to test applications after they have been developed, companies now are continually testing modules as they are developed. Sometimes that’s done by the developers themselves, while other organizations prefer to maintain testing teams made up of individuals who did not write the code being tested. Proponents of the latter approach contend that approach leads to higher-quality code because the individuals testing the code are not as invested in how the code was written. Of course, in an ideal world, an organization would be able to embrace both approaches.

    Regardless of the approach taken, the one thing that is clear is that the rate of at which applications are being developed requires more reliance on automated testing than ever. Not only are there more applications being developed, but increasingly each one is made up of microservices. There often are multiple versions of those microservices that are subject to frequent change. To make matters even more challenging, the number of dependencies between microservices that make up an application are increasing exponentially. That means the days when organizations could rely mainly on manual testing are coming to an end.

    There may come a day when machine learning algorithms are able to play a bigger role in automating application testing and DevOps. But for now, that day is still far off. In the meantime, most organizations are still incorporating multiple approaches to automated testing into their application development processes. The issue is no longer so much about whether to automate testing as much as it is to what degree.

    In the meantime, the more acquisitions that occur across the DevOps landscape, the greater the validation of DevOps becomes as vendors scramble to extend portfolios that, in many cases, are still optimized for legacy approaches to building and deploying applications that increasingly are falling by the wayside.

    — Mike Vizard

  • Clearlake Capital-Backed Perforce Software to Acquire Perfecto Mobil

    Enhanced Perforce solutions portfolio to include cloud-based continuous automated testing at scale for enterprise mobile and web applications

    MINNEAPOLIS and SANTA MONICA, Calif., Oct. 8, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Perforce Software (“Perforce”), a global provider of enterprise-grade DevOps-focused software solutions, backed by Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. (together with its affiliates, “Clearlake”), today announced it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire Perfecto Mobile (“Perfecto”), a market leader in cloud-based automated mobile and web application test software solutions. The acquisition augments Perforce’s software portfolio with additional capabilities for enterprise DevOps teams to achieve continuous testing at scale across web, mobile and IoT applications.  The acquisition is expected to close this year.

    Perfecto is the industry pioneer delivering the only true enterprise-grade mobile & web automation testing software platform through its globally accessible Continuous Quality Lab. The company is the go-to provider for large organizations that need to accelerate their digital transformation and provide their customers with the best online mobile and web experiences. Leading enterprises in banking, retail, telecommunications, and insurance rely on Perfecto’s robust automated testing software to deliver quality experiences faster and retain users in highly competitive markets.

    “Enterprises continue to need more automation to both scale and accelerate their application delivery,” said Mark Ties, Perforce CEO. “Perfecto adds a critical component to our DevOps capabilities allowing Perforce to deliver more value for large enterprise customers that value scalability and security.”

    Perforce continues to add capabilities to its software portfolio that uniquely meet the needs of technology development teams that are challenged with multiple dimensions of scale but still must deliver products at a rapid pace.  The acquisition of Perfecto will represent Perforce’s fifth acquisition in the past two years.

    “With this strategic acquisition, Perforce is well positioned to capitalize on the significant market trends around demand for continuous testing from enterprise DevOps teams,” added Prashant Mehrotra and Paul Huber of Clearlake. “We are excited to continue our support of Mark and the Perforce management team as they drive consolidation in the industry and accelerate organic growth.”

    “Perfecto is the mobile and web testing software platform of choice for enterprise clients. The digital transformation is driving accelerated adoption of DevOps and its activities such as continuous integration, test automation and continuous delivery to more quickly capture and engage customers online. Our Continuous Quality Lab enables enterprises to remove bottlenecks and rapidly validate and deliver mobile and web applications that engage their customers,” said Eran Yaniv, Perfecto Co-Founder and CEO. “We are thrilled to join the Perforce team and are confident that this partnership provides us increased resources to capitalize on the continuous testing market opportunity.”

    About Perforce
    Perforce is a leading provider of enterprise scale software solutions to technology developers and development operations (“DevOps”) teams requiring productivity, visibility and scale during all phases of the development lifecycle. Enterprises across the globe rely on its agile planning and ALM tools, developer collaboration, static code analysis, version control and repository management solutions as the foundation for successful DevOps at scale. Perforce is trusted by the world’s most innovative brands, including NVIDIA, Pixar, Scania, Ubisoft, and VMware. For more information, please visit www.perforce.com.

    About Perfecto
    Perfecto is the leader in continuous testing and monitoring for today’s dynamic DevOps environments. Our Continuous Quality Lab enables DevOps teams to accelerate development, achieve continuous testing and monitoring, and drive fast feedback through actionable analytics for web, mobile, and IoT applications. More than 3,000 customers rely on our cloud-based Continuous Quality Lab as their digital application test environment and for authoring test automation executed on real browsers, smartphones, and devices under real end-user conditions. For more information about Perfecto, visit perfecto.io.

    About Clearlake Capital
    Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. is a leading private investment firm founded in 2006. With a sector-focused approach, the firm seeks to partner with world-class management teams by providing patient, long-term capital to dynamic businesses that can benefit from Clearlake’s operational improvement approach, O.P.S.® The firm’s core target sectors are software and technology-enabled services; industrials and energy; and consumer. Clearlake has managed over $8 billion of institutional capital since inception and its senior investment principals have led or co-led over 100 investments. More information is available at www.clearlake.com.

  • Perfecto Introduces Tools Built for High-Velocity Mobile and Web Application Development

    BOSTON, MA and SAN FRANCISCO, CA–(Marketwired – Feb 14, 2017) –  DevWeek – Perfecto, the provider of the leading web and mobile quality lab, today introduced new tools designed for developers and development teams that accelerate the web and mobile app development process through faster debugging and troubleshooting. Powered by Perfecto’s on-demand, cloud-based Continuous Quality Lab, the new tools provide fast feedback to mobile and web developers and development teams. The tools allow developers to obtain real-world feedback early in their development process, identify and fix platform-specific bugs, and streamline continuous integration (CI) within their DevOps delivery pipeline.

    A recent trend in mobile and web development shows 25% of time is spent addressing a bug fix backlog, which slows down the velocity of releases and prohibits the innovation of new features that draw in users and boost engagement.

    According to a recent Forrester report, in order to build the right software better and faster, automated testing along the delivery pipeline is needed for continuous visibility into software releasability. By automating the delivery pipeline, teams can test software from the moment it’s committed, reducing release risk and business uncertainty.*

    This effort can be minimized with fast feedback, improved mapping of target coverage areas and the ability to embed automated quality practices throughout the entire SDLC, from development to testing to production. Mobile app and web developers can use Perfecto’s new tools to support these practices and in turn improve the quality of their code, increase time to market and reduce risks to the user experience in production.

    Perfecto’s new developer tools make high-velocity development possible. Key features and benefits include:

    • Injection of quality across development, QA and ops processes – Teams can integrate unit, exploratory and automated testing directly into their IDE of choice for mobile or web.
    • Full support for native mobile testing frameworks – Espresso (Android) and XCTest (iOS), enables developers to receive early feedback from CI builds over a wide range of platforms, environments and real user conditions.
    • Improved visibility into bugs – Perfecto’s DigitalZoom reporting provides cross-platform visibility and allows teams to track quality trends, analyze platform-specific issues and collaborate on test results for faster fixes.
    • Accelerated debugging – Perfecto’s DevTunnel accelerates debugging and troubleshooting in development cycles by providing instant access to a variety of real cloud-based devices, browsers and user environments from within your IDE of choice, leveraging your debugger of choice.

    “In today’s digital era, velocity of the application delivery pipeline is a key success metric for software executives,” said Roi Carmel, Chief Strategy Officer at Perfecto. “With this release, our goal is to empower mobile app and web developers to build a better delivery pipeline with an on-demand quality lab that supports high levels of test automation, and is integrated directly into their preferred coding environments, making it easier to gain reliable feedback, speed up build cycles and accelerate feature delivery.”

    Perfecto’s developer tools are available with an additional license. Free versions of select developer tools will be released in the coming months to those who pre-register here. To learn more about Perfecto’s tools for mobile app and web developers, visit justletmecode.io, stop by booth #130 at DeveloperWeek in San Francisco, CA, or tune in to our livestream demo on Wednesday, February 22 at 11am EST.

    *Build The Right Software Better And Faster With Agile And DevOps Metrics, Forrester Research, Inc., August 11, 2016

    About Perfecto
    Perfecto is the leading cloud-based test lab for web and mobile applications, empowering global enterprises with the tools they need to deliver better digital experiences for their users. With Perfecto, developers and testers can automate testing earlier in the SDLC, using the most reliable test lab comprised of real devices that simulate real-world networks, locations and scenarios. With more than 2,500 customers across major industries, Perfecto is enabling continuous integration and faster release cycles that set the speed of digital innovation. For more information, visit perfectomobile.com, join the Perfecto community, or follow us on Twitter at @PerfectoMobile.

    — Jules Louis

  • Perfecto Releases Ultimate Digital Testing Toolkit to Guide Data-Driven Testing Decisions – New set of free resources

    New set of free resources helps enhance mobile and web testing strategies

    LONDON – May 18, 2016 – Perfecto Mobile, the market leader in empowering enterprises to deliver high-quality digital experiences, today announced the availability of their Ultimate Digital Test Coverage Toolkit, a free “starter package” that guides Test, DevOps and Product Development teams to make better-informed decisions about their web and mobile test strategies across devices and geographies. The Ultimate Test Coverage Toolkit helps practitioners reduce risk associated with digital quality by identifying the right mix of mobile devices and browsers to test on across geographies; how to set up and maintain a robust and scalable test lab; and what device/browser platforms to pay particular attention to in 2016.

    According to Criteo’s State of Mobile Commerce report, 40 per cent of transactions today take place on multiple digital platforms – from mobile devices and desktops to wearables. Ensuring that dev/test teams are using the best combination of mobile devices, browsers and operating systems for their target user base is crucial to delivering a great digital experience, yet the diverse digital landscape and rapid pace of releases causes challenges when strategising test plans. A recentForrester Wave™ (Mobile Front-End Test Automation Tools, Q2 2016) report noted the most successful mobile apps are tested on many device models and under a variety of conditions; however anticipating and mitigating the unknown means testing an app “on tens, hundreds, and even thousands” of different devices, operating systems and browsers.

    “A common challenge for teams developing or scaling their test strategies across web and mobile is making the decision of which devices, browsers and geographies to include in their test plans,” said Eran Kinsbruner, Technical Evangelist at Perfecto. The Ultimate Digital Test Coverage Toolkit aims to simplify the digital landscape by showing users how to maximise test strategies, guide users to make data-driven decisions about test coverage, and deliver great user experiences across digital channels.”

    Powered by regularly updated market and proprietary data, the Ultimate Test Coverage Toolkitenables users to stay ahead of the curve and consistently deliver great digital experiences to their customers through a variety of features and resources, including:

    • A free, online interactive tool to answer, “Which mobile devices and platforms should you test on?” With the five most popular devices and operating systems accounting for more than 500 possible browser and device combinations alone, the new Digital Test Coverage Optimiser tool enables teams to discover the optimal device/system mix for maximising test coverage with the fewest devices possible.
    • Resources and data to inform ongoing coverage strategy. The Test Coverage Toolkit includes a number of resources to help app developers, testers and product managers develop a strategy for multi-device interactions that will cover all target markets and user profiles. The Digital Test Coverage Index Report combines data from 4,000+ device profiles, mobile market usage data and proprietary Perfecto analysis to help teams determine the level of digital quality testing required to cover all relevant target markets and customers on an ongoing basis.
    • A comprehensive guide for implementing a digital test strategy. To round out the Toolkit, Perfecto published a step-by-step test coverage e-book that gives practical advice on how to approach, build and maintain a successful digital test strategy, and is based on exclusive enterprise cloud usage data and the experiences of Perfecto’s most-valued customers.

    The Ultimate Digital Test Coverage Toolkit is the first of many information hubs within Perfecto’s new Ultimate Guide to Continuous Quality, a premiere resource centre for practicable, actionable strategies and tips for delivering Continuous Quality to improve digital experiences. To learn more about Perfecto’s Test Coverage Toolkit tune into the webinar “How to Create the Right Mobile & Web Test Strategy” taking place on May 26 at 2 p.m. ET. To register, visit here:http://info.perfectomobile.com/ultimate-test-coverage-webinar.html.

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    About Perfecto
    Perfecto enables exceptional digital experiences. We help you transform your business and strengthen every digital interaction with a quality-first approach to creating web and native apps, through a cloud-based test environment called the Continuous Quality Lab™. The CQL Lab is comprised of real devices and real end-user conditions, giving you the truest test environment available.

    More than 1,500 customers, including 50% of the Fortune 500 across the banking, insurance, retail, telecommunications and media industries rely on Perfecto to deliver optimal mobile app functionality and end user experiences, ensuring their brand’s reputation, establishing loyal customers and continually attracting new users. For more information about Perfecto, visitwww.perfectomobile.com, join our community or follow us on Twitter at @PerfectoMobile.

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  • Perfecto Releases Ultimate Digital Testing Toolkit to Guide Data-Driven Testing Decisions

    New set of free resources helps enhance mobile and web testing strategies

    BOSTON – May 17, 2016 – Perfecto Mobile, the market leader in empowering enterprises to deliver high-quality digital experiences, today announced the availability of theirUltimate Digital Test Coverage Toolkit, a free “starter package” that  guides Test, DevOps and Product Development teams to make better-informed decisions about their web and mobile test strategies across devices and geographies. The Ultimate Test Coverage Toolkit helps practitioners reduce risk associated with digital quality by identifying the right mix of mobile devices and browsers to test on across geographies; how to set up and maintain a robust and scalable test lab; and what device/browser platforms to pay particular attention to in 2016.

    According to Criteo’s State of Mobile Commerce report, 40 percent of transactions today take place on multiple digital platforms – from mobile devices and desktops to wearables. Ensuring that dev/test teams are using the best combination of mobile devices, browsers and operating systems for their target user base is crucial to delivering a great digital experience, yet the diverse digital landscape and rapid pace of releases causes challenges when strategizing test plans. A recent Forrester Wave™ (Mobile Front-End Test Automation Tools, Q2 2016) report noted the most successful mobile apps are tested on many device models and under a variety of conditions; however anticipating and mitigating the unknown means testing an app “on tens, hundreds, and even thousands” of different devices, operating systems and browsers.

    “A common challenge for teams developing or scaling their test strategies across web and mobile is making the decision of which devices, browsers and geographies to include in their test plans,” said Eran Kinsbruner, Technical Evangelist at Perfecto. The Ultimate Digital Test Coverage Toolkit aims to simplify the digital landscape by showing users how to maximize test strategies, guide users to make data-driven decisions about test coverage, and deliver great user experiences across digital channels.”

    Powered by regularly updated market and proprietary data, the Ultimate Test Coverage Toolkit enables users to stay ahead of the curve and consistently deliver great digital experiences to their customers through a variety of features and resources, including:

    • A free, online interactive tool to answer, “Which mobile devices and platforms should you test on?” With the five most popular devices and operating systems accounting for more than 500 possible browser and device combinations alone, the new Digital Test Coverage Optimizer tool enables teams to discover the optimal device/system mix for maximizing test coverage with the fewest devices possible.
    • Resources and data to inform ongoing coverage strategy. The Test Coverage Toolkit includes a number of resources to help app developers, testers and product managers develop a strategy for multi-device interactions that will cover all target markets and user profiles. The Digital Test Coverage Index Report combines data from 4,000+ device profiles, mobile market usage data and proprietary Perfecto analysis to help teams determine the level of digital quality testing required to cover all relevant target markets and customers on an ongoing basis.
    • A comprehensive guide for implementing a digital test strategy. To round out the Toolkit, Perfecto published a step-by-step test coverage e-book that gives practical advice on how to approach, build and maintain a successful digital test strategy, and is based on exclusive enterprise cloud usage data and the experiences of Perfecto’s most-valued customers.

    The Ultimate Digital Test Coverage Toolkit is the first of many information hubs within Perfecto’s new Ultimate Guide to Continuous Quality, a premiere resource center for practicable, actionable strategies and tips for delivering Continuous Quality to improve digital experiences. To learn more about Perfecto’s Test Coverage Toolkit tune into the webinar “How to Create the Right Mobile & Web Test Strategy” taking place on May 26 at 2 p.m. ET. To register, visit here: http://info.perfectomobile.com/ultimate-test-coverage-webinar.html.

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    About Perfecto

    Perfecto enables exceptional digital experiences. We help you transform your business and strengthen every digital interaction with a quality-first approach to creating web and native apps, through a cloud-based test environment called the Continuous Quality Lab™. The CQL Lab is comprised of real devices and real end-user conditions, giving you the truest test environment available.

    More than 1,500 customers, including 50% of the Fortune 500 across the banking, insurance, retail, telecommunications and media industries rely on Perfecto to deliver optimal mobile app functionality and end user experiences, ensuring their brand’s reputation, establishing loyal customers and continually attracting new users. For more information about Perfecto, visit www.perfectomobile.com, join our community or follow us on Twitter at @PerfectoMobile.