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06 February 2012 ~ 0 Comments

Hola Barcelona! Meet SOASTA at the Mobile World Congress!

I’m kicking off 2012 conference season with what should be one of the top conference I will have the opportunity to attend this year. The Mobile World Congress is THE place to be if you’re involved in the mobile world. The annual attendance is generally between 50,000 and 60,000 people! Theme for this year is [...]

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25 January 2012 ~ 1 Comment

SOASTA TouchTest – The day after

Wow! What a week! We’ve announced our new AWESOME product TouchTest this Monday and things got crazy really quickly! I’ve been talking about it yesterday all day long with testers and potential customers, and the feedback is truly AMAZING! Then when I had finally some time to catch up with what was said about TouchTest, [...]

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23 January 2012 ~ 1 Comment

Mobile Test Automation the SOASTA way with TouchTest

2 weeks ago I’ve spent a week at SOASTA HQ for our 2012 kick-off. A good opportunity to meet old friends, and make new ones! As you know, in December we’ve raised an additional $12M to expand our business and awesome people are joining the revolution every day! On the menu was a recap of [...]

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18 January 2012 ~ 0 Comments

Future UIs will bring challenges to Software Testing!

This video was taken at the TED conference in 2010 and presents the future of User Interfaces.  The presenter, John UnderKoffler, is the guy who built the technology behind “Minority Report” 10 years ago. You can find emerging application for these kind of UIs from logistics, Financial distribution, military, etc. Today’s UIs rely on Basic [...]

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28 December 2011 ~ 0 Comments

The Valley is partying like it’s 1999! SOASTA makes the news!

The crew of NBC Bay Area was in the SOASTA’s office yesterday to shoot a small report on some of the hottest Startups in the Silicon Valley. In case we needed a reminder, 2012  looks really strong especially for Cloud Computing companies. A good indication? It’s getting really tough to hire top notch developers right [...]

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22 December 2011 ~ 5 Comments

Installing SOASTA CloudTest Lite – Even my mum can do it!

Ok, the title is a bit misleading as my mum is technology challenged but I’m sure my sister could do it! Seriously,  yesterday I was describing the CloudTest Lite installation process to a software tester as he was not used to receive an installation package as a virtual image. The first time I installed CloudTest [...]

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14 December 2011 ~ 0 Comments

What apps are in every developer toolkit?

This is an interesting survey done by bestvendor.com. They’ve interviewed 500 developers from companies of less than 100 people, asking them their choice of tools for their development environment. It’s interesting to notice that some categories are clearly dominated by one product: Eclipse is killing everyone else, MySQL is the obvious choice, Git has become [...]

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12 December 2011 ~ 1 Comment

Early Christmas – SOASTA secures another $12M in funding!

I took my Monday’s coffee with the best read ever! Tom Lounibos, our fearless leader, announced internally a fantastic news to all SOASTA employees. We all knew this was in the work but it feels so good to finally be able to announce it to the world! We’re announcing today a $12 million round of [...]

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