I’d like to share some very exciting news. This week we have announced Thoma Bravo’s strategic investment in Applitools. This investment will provide us more resources and expertise to fulfill our vision and build the most advanced AI-powered test automation platform, paving the road to autonomous testing. 

Driving More Innovation and Growth

Thoma Bravo is a premier private equity firm that invests in software and technology enabled companies, and we believe that their investment will significantly benefit Applitools and all our customers. With this new investment, we will grow our team, continue to deliver excellent customer support, drive more product innovation, build new products to expand our offering, and expand the ecosystem around Applitools.

We will continue to expand our offering to provide more comprehensive solutions to focus on what we always have, which is the success of our customers!

Thank You

Our customers, partners and the entire Applitools community are a critical part of our success and our relationship with all of you will continue to be our top priority. We’re thrilled that this investment will enable us to become an even stronger partner for you, and we look forward to continuing to provide you with the innovation and best of breed solutions that you have come to expect from us.

Thoma Bravo’s culture is built on collaboration with existing management teams to build extraordinary companies. By combining the innovation and vision of the Applitools team with the resources and expertise of Thoma Bravo, we will accelerate the development of our AI powered automation platform to help our customers release better software, faster than ever before.

Thanks again for being our partners. We are committed to your success! If you have any questions, please reach out to our team anytime.

Yours truely,

Gil Sever

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If you want to run mobile applications, you want to run on Android. Android devices dominate the smartphone market. Genymotion allows you to run your Appium tests in parallel on a range of virtual Android devices. Applitools lets you rapidly validate how each device renders each Appium test. Together, Genymotion and Applitools give you coverage with speed for your functional and visual tests.

As a QA automation professional, you know you need to test on Android.  Then you look at the market and realize just how fragmented the market is.

How fragmented is Android?

Fragmented is an understatement. A study by OpenSignal measured over 24,000 unique models of Android devices in use, running nine different Android OS versions across over three dozen different screen sizes, manufactured by 1,294 distinct device vendors. That is fragmentation. These numbers are mind-boggling, so here’s a chart to explain. Each box represents the usage share of one phone model.

Plenty of other studies confirm this. There are 19 major vendors of Android devices. Leading manufacturers include Samsung, Huawei, OnePlus, Xiaome, and Google. The market share of the leading Android device is less than 2% of the market, and the market share of the top 10 devices is 11%. The most popular  Android version accounts for only 31% of the market.

We would all like to think that Android devices behave exactly the same way.  But, no one knows for sure without testing. If you check through the Google Issue Tracker, you’ll find a range of issues that end up as platform-specific.

Implications for Android Test Coverage

So, if every Android device might behave differently, exactly how should you test your Android apps? One way is to run the test functionally on each platform and measure behavior in code – that’s costly. Another way is to run functionally on one platform and hope the code works on the others. Functionally, this can tell you that the app works – but you are left vulnerable to device-specific behaviors that may not be obvious without testing.

To visualize the challenge of testing against 24,000 unique platforms, imagine your application has just 10 screens. If you placed these ten different screens on 24,000 unique devices end-to-end, they would stretch over 30 miles. That’s longer than the distance of a marathon!

Could you imagine manually checking a marathon’s worth of screens with every release?

I can’t run a marathon, much less do while examining thousands of screens. Thankfully there’s a better way, which I’ll explain in this post: using Genymotion, Appium, and Applitools.

What is Genymotion?

Genymotion is the industry-leading provider of cloud-based Android emulation and virtual mobile infrastructure solutions. Genymotion frees you from having to build your own Android device farm.

Once you integrate your Appium tests with Genymotion Cloud, you can run them in parallel across many Android devices at once, to detect bugs as soon as possible and spend less time on test runs. That’s powerful.

With Genymotion Cloud, you can choose to test against just the most popular Android device/OS combinations. Or, you can test the combinations for a specific platform vendor in detail. Genymotion gives you the flexibility to run whatever combination of Androids you need.

Why use Genymotion Cloud & Applitools?

Genymotion Cloud can run your Android functional tests across multiple platforms. However, functional tests are a subset of the device and OS version issues you might encounter with your application. In addition to functional tests. you can run into visual issues that affect how your app looks as well as how it runs. How do you run visual UI tests with Genymotion Cloud? Applitools.

Applitools provides AI-powered visual testing of applications and allows you to test cross-platform easily to identify visual bugs. Visual regressions seem like they might be simply a distraction to your customers. At worst, though, visual errors block your customers from completing transactions. Visual errors have real costs – and without visual testing, they often don’t appear until a user encounters them in the field.

Here’s one example of what I’m talking about. This messed-up layout blocked Instagram from making any money on this ad, and probably led to an upset customer and engineering VP. All the elements are present, so this screen probably passed functional testing.

You can find plenty of other examples of visual regressions by following #GUIGoneWrong on Twitter.

Applitools uses an AI-powered visual testing engine to highlight issues that customers would identify. More importantly, Applitools ignores differences that customers would not notice. If you ever used snapshot testing, you may have stopped because you tracked down too many false positives. Applitools finds the issues that matter and ignores the ones that don’t.

How to use Genymotion, Appium & Applitools?

Applitools already works with Appium to provide visual testing for your Android OS applications. Now, you can use Applitools and Genymotion to run your visual tests across numerous Android virtual devices.  To sum up:

1. Write your tests in Appium using the Applitools SDK to capture visual images.
2. Launch the Genymotion cloud devices via command line.
3. Your Appium scripts will run visual tests across the Genymotion virtual devices.

That’s the overview. To dive into the details, check out this step-by-step tutorial on using Genymotion, Appium, and Applitools.

While it’s pretty complete, here’s some additional information you’ll need:

• Download and install Python 3
• Next, install pip3 on Windows or macOS
• Finally, make sure you install Android SDK

We’ve put together a series of step-by-step tutorial videos using Genymotion, Appium, and Applitools. Here’s the first one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXuMglfNEeo

Genymotion, Appium, and Applitools: Better Together

When you run Appium, Applitools, and Genymotion together, you get a huge boost in test productivity. You get to re-use your existing Appium test scripts. Genymotion lets you run all your functional and visual tests in parallel. And, with the accuracy of Applitools AI-powered visual testing, you track down only issues that matter, without the distraction of false positives.

Find Out More

Read more about how to use our products together from this Genymotion blog post.

Visit Applitools at the Appium Conference 2019 in Bengaluru, India.

Sign up for our upcoming webinar on July 9 with Jonathan Lipps: Easy Distributed Visual Testing for Mobile Apps and Sites.

Find out more about Genymotion Cloud, and sign up for a free account to get started.

Find out more about Applitools. You can request a demo, sign up for a free account, and view our tutorials.

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Red Herring Top 100 recognized the most promising privately-held companies in North America, and Applitools was recognized for its Application Visual Management market expansion leveraging AI Powered Visual UI Testing. 

It’s always an honor to be recognized for your hard work. So when the 2018 Red Herring Top 100 North America Awards were announced, and Applitools was included, we were both excited and humbled to be included on this prestigious list alongside some amazing and innovative growth companies.

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 for digital products and experiences, companies must leverage Application Visual Management (AVM) as a strategic advantage to shorten application delivery cycles while improving software quality.

The Red Herring Top 100 has been a noteworthy award in our industry since 1996 when the accolade started as a means for discovering and advocating the most promising private ventures. To win the award, organizations must go through a rigorous three-step process during which Red Herring looks at more than 20 criteria to determine the winners. In addition to a thorough report from the company, there is also an interview process where the CEO has a conversation with a Red Herring judge. If the judge determines the company’s business model is deserving of further attention, they move forward. If not, the process stops there. The Red Herring Top 100 is extraordinarily thorough and detailed and is not an easy award to win.

Applitools is a relatively young company, and as we look around at the table at the team in place (we are thrilled to add Dave Haeffner and Manoj Kumar to the team), we have an incredible opportunity ahead. And, we are just scratching the surface of what we can accomplish in this space.

This is a recognition we share with everyone who makes Applitools the company that it is today – from our customers and end-users to our partners and investors – congratulations on a job well-done.

To learn more about Applitools’ visual UI testing and application visual management (AVM) solutions, check out the tutorials on the Applitools website. To get started with Applitools, request a demo, or sign up for a free Applitools account.

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Award program recognizes the leaders in the software development space, and this year, Applitools brings visual UI testing to the community. 

Recently, SD Times, the leading monthly magazine for Software and Development Managers, DevOps teams, Test & QA professionals and CIO’s announced their annual SD Times 100 awards, and Applitools was named a “Best in Show” for the software testing category.

We spoke to David Rubinstein, editor of SD Times, back in February about the most recent updates to Applitools Eyes and the introduction of Application Visual Management (AVM), and then again in April, once we closed our latest funding round. It has been a pleasure to work with the SD Times team and we always appreciate the opportunity to share our insights for what lies ahead in the ever-exciting world of software development.

We’d like to give a special shout out to the other innovative companies recognized in the testing category: Eggplant, Mobile Labs, Parasoft, Perfecto, Rainforest QA, Test IO and Tricentis.

Want to learn more about Application Visual Management (AVM)? Check out our whitepaper, “Automate Visual UI Testing In Just 5 Lines of Code: The Rise of Application Visual Management”

Background on the SD Times 100

According to the editors of SD Times, they identified the industry’s top leaders, innovators and influencers, and broke them out into 10 separate industry segments. Some companies lead in one category, others in more than one. In each category, one company has been spotlighted as a star deserving of special notice.

When choosing the SD Times 100, the editors carefully considered each company’s offerings and reputation. They also listened for the “buzz”— how much attention and conversation we’ve heard around the company and its products and technologies — as a sign of leadership within the industry.

The SD Times 100 judges looked for companies that have determined a direction that developers followed. Did the company set the industry agenda? Did its products and services advance the software development art? Were its competitors nervously tracking its moves? Were programmers anxiously awaiting its developments? Those qualities mark a leader.

Subjective? Of course. But leadership and innovation can’t be measured by stock valuations or analyst reports. The SD Times 100 represents what we believe to be the best of the best…

We felt an immense sense of pride being included in the SD Times 100 for the first time. Looking back on where Applitools started to where we are now, none of it would be possible without the hard work, dedication and incredible tenacity of our employees, partners and most importantly – our customers. What we’ve seen growing at our organization over the past few years is nothing short of amazing, and to have this independent and well-respected third-party look at what we’ve accomplished and say, “That’s award-worthy,” — well, that really means something.

To learn more about Applitools’ visual UI testing and application visual management (AVM) solutions, check out the tutorials on the Applitools website. To get started with Applitools, request a demo, or sign up for a free Applitools account.

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We just released version 10.3 of Applitools Eyes on our Application Visual Management (AVM) platform and would like to tell you about three great new capabilities we added:

1. UI Version Control
2. New View: Apps & Tests
3. New View: List View of Test Baselines

1. User Interface Version Control

UI Version Control lets you view the history of an application UI over time, and see how it has changed, what has been changed, and by whom.

Up until now, Applitools has only shown baselines in the context of test results from the test results manager, and you’ve never been able to view the history of a test baseline.

Now in Applitools 10.3, you can see the history of all your test baselines in each branch, compare them to prior versions of your baselines, and revert to an earlier version if necessary. You can do this by selecting ‘Save as latest’ from the baseline options menu. So, if you accidentally accepted a baseline that you shouldn’t have, you can undo your mistake.

You can also merge baselines branches just like you merge your code changes. This gives you a lot of flexibility around baseline management.

This capability is essentially version management applied to the concept of the visual aspects of your application’s entire user interface. We call this User Interface Version Control, or UIVC. And we are the first company to build this.

Another benefit of Applitools’ UIVC is that it gives you a system-of-record to understand how your product’s UI has evolved. We found it amazing that, in 2018, with so many businesses driving the bulk of their revenue through their app or website, there wasn’t a place to go to see the visual evolution of your product. So, we went out and built one!

Here’s a demonstration from our CTO, Adam Carmi, of our new UI Version Control:

2. New View: Apps & Tests

The second new feature in Applitools 10.3 is Apps & Tests View. In Applitools, visual tests have always been associated with their respective baselines and been part of an application group. However, there hasn’t been an easy way to visualize this taxonomy of apps, tests, and baselines from the test results manager.

In 10.3, a new user interface screen labeled Apps & Tests now lets you:

• View a list of all applications and their corresponding tests with the ability to filter, rename, or delete in the application list or the test list.
  • Note: any time you rename an application or test, you should also update your test script so that Applitools doesn’t create a new test during subsequent runs.
• View details on each test such as the last test execution date and baseline update by user.
• View all baselines for a test by selecting Show Baselines from the options panel for a test.
• View last executed or saved result for a test in the Test Results Manager from the options panel.

3. New View: List View of Test Baselines

The third new update in 10.3 is a list of all baselines for a given test. You can get to this screen from the Apps & Tests screen by clicking on a test, as well as by clicking the options icon for a given test.

The screen lets you:

• Group baselines by various parameters
• Filter baselines by branches, name, and status parameters
• View related details such as properties, last saved date and total tests run
• Drill into the history of any baseline from the options panel

To learn more about Applitools’ visual UI testing and application visual management (AVM) solutions, check out the tutorials on the Applitools website. To get started with Applitools, request a demo, or sign up for a free Applitools account.

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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/blog/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.

Applitools Media Contact:

Jeremy Douglas
Catapult PR-IR
303-581-7760, ext. 16
jdouglas@catapultpr-ir.com

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From Visual AI Inception to Application Visual Management (AVM)

Today’s digital era is increasingly dominated by user interactions with our brands and products through visual interfaces on web and mobile devices. It’s all about user convenience, time savings, and in many cases the ease of purchase instead of shopping in-store. As businesses evolve to serve the majority of their brand interactions through digital experiences, digital transformation means their software becomes their brand. For example, an e-commerce application crash or UI bug can be analogous to a negative in-store customer experience. Obviously a scenario any brand owner must avoid, but how? 

Automated UI testing for changes in application visual interfaces across browsers, devices, form factors, viewport sizes, in different languages, continues to be a huge challenge. A challenge further exaggerated by the enterprise focus on release agility due to pressure to innovate faster and deliver better and better customer experiences with each release. To tackle the resulting UI testing challenges, enterprises have historically relied on either manual visual validation, prone to repeatable human error, or rudimentary pixel-based image comparison tools yielding high false positives. We know today that neither approach scales –- enter Applitools Visual AI based technology to detect UI issues fast, across hundreds of interfaces with 99.999% accuracy.

Over the past couple years, we’ve learned from our customers that comprehensive visual UI testing requires additional capabilities. This includes baseline management, team collaboration on issues, automated maintenance of tests with intuitive dashboarding & analytics, as well as wider SDK coverage with seamless integrations into ecosystem tools used for CI/CD, Ticketing, SCM, et al. In the recent version 10 release, we successfully added all these key capabilities to officially launch our enterprise-grade platform for Automated Visual UI Testing, putting us on the path to Application Visual Management.

Our v10 Enterprise Platform Components Explained

1. The Core Visual AI

Applitools is the first and only enterprise product that allows automation teams the ability to fully manage the visual UI layer of their applications to deliver great customer experiences. Our robust AI based solution, trained with deep learning from the largest data set of UI validations in the world, is now achieving accuracy of 99.999%. It’s the key component necessary to the delivery of AVM. Our approach to visual testing has been AI-first since inception, and our AI engine continues to evolve through machine learning by analyzing millions of new images daily. Beyond just coverage for static and dynamic web content, our AI technology is also used for document validation with growing use cases to validation all areas where manual human validation is a bottleneck to scalability, quality, and growth.

2. Visual Test Management

Visual content continues to evolve at a faster pace and before, with more dynamic and personalized experiences across various languages and interfaces. Thus, comprehensive visually testing can involve hundreds of test scenarios and use cases. Applitools visual test management platform is designed for this complexity. With the ability to handle single and component level UI validations across different browsers, devices, languages, content types (dynamic, PDF), Applitools provides an intuitive UI to manage 1,000s of daily tests. Furthermore, the test manager allows a test to cover various UI pages as part of a user journey and offers several automated maintenance features for ease of use, leveraging our AI.

3. Dashboard, Analytics, and Collaboration

With the capability to run many tests at scale comes the need for analyzing the results quickly. Applitools offers powerful dashboarding & analytics across all tests to see execution results, distribution by status, coverage (browser, devices), and uncover root causes of any UI issues. Furthermore, issues identified can be assigned to users for review responsibility. Often, however, issues detected require collaboration within teams to access impact. Applitools allows teams to discuss any issue or remark on the screen shot itself, with full visual context, and supports built-in notification management.

4. Baseline Management

Behind all the tests and issues identified is an intelligent baseline management service, which rounds out our Enterprise offering. With baseline management, users can map baselines to tests & apps, view history of UI versions, compare them, and create new definitions to cover use cases such as cross browser or cross device testing. Automated maintenance features allow for updates to several baselines, where necessary, with just the click of a button. In addition, baselining supports branching and merge of tests, and has a seamless integration with Github.

5. Ecosystem Integrations

Applitools also supports many integrations across the ecosystem and other industry vendors focused on other areas of web & mobile test automation such as Sauce Labs and Perfecto Mobile. Supporting all continuous integration tools via APIs, Applitools also provides built in plug-ins for some of the most popular: Jenkins, TeamCity, and Team Server Foundation. In addition, integrations with Jira for ticketing, Github for source control, and Slack for collaboration allow users to easily work with Applitools daily.

Summary

As enterprises across every industry continue on their journey to digital transformation, their software has a larger footprint on their brand. The customer experience for any such business starts at the visual layer, where issues found have an instant impact. This makes Application Visual Management a crucial and necessary part of the success for every business. We’re proud of the platform we’ve now built and have all of you to thank for the ideas, the usage, the product feedback. Keep it coming, and expect much more to come in 2018 and beyond!

To learn more about Applitools’ visual UI testing and application visual management (AVM) solutions, check out the tutorials on the Applitools website. To get started with Applitools, request a demo, or sign up for a free Applitools account.

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We are thrilled to share that Applitools has been named to CB Insights 2018 AI 100.

This recognition is part of a ranking of the 100 most promising private artificial intelligence (AI) companies in the world, and recognizes the teams and technologies that are successfully using AI to solve big challenges. We are honored to be recognized alongside many other organizations who are innovating in the realm of AI, machine and deep learning.

On top of making the general list, Applitools Eyes is the stand-alone finalist in the software development category. With other award categories in retail, media, cyber-security, agriculture, and more, it is clear that the ROI of AI and machine learning is real and organizations in every industry are finding innovative ways to leverage its benefits. 

Want to give Applitools Eyes a try? Enjoy a free trial of our easy-to-use SaaS solution

To calculate and determine the winners that made the AI 100 list, CB Insights uses a Mosaic scoring system, which is a quantitative framework to measure the overall health and growth potential of private companies. The Mosaic score evaluates companies based on three distinct factors: Momentum, Market and Money. After review of Applitools’ Mosaic score, we were selected as one of 1,000+ applicants to have made the list!

Why Applitools?
In today’s increasingly digital world, it is imperative that any company have a digital presence, let alone one that is visually flawless. With web teams buried in lines of code, it can often be challenging for organizations to find visual discrepancies on their apps and sites, and it often involves laborious manual processes to find/fix these discrepancies.

Thanks to Applitools Eyes, our AI-powered visual testing and monitoring solution, customers are able to automatically test the look, feel and user experience of their apps and sites without having to sacrifice their existing test framework.

All the while, Applitools Eyes’ AI-powered cognitive vision is constantly learning and improving from what are now millions of collected data points. This saves organizations countless hours and dollars spent using teams of manual testers tracking down visual imperfections and searching for flawed lines of code.

This journey has only just begun!
The increasing pressure from business executives to protect the brand experience, as digital transformation continues unabated, means we will see the emergence of the nascent Application Visual Management (AVM) category. This logical extension of Application Delivery Management (ADM), and Application Performance Management (APM), will become more a focus for enterprises as we head into 2018.

Make sure to stay tuned in the coming year for some more exciting announcements, updates to our solutions and the latest trends in test automation. And, thanks again to the CB Insights team for the accolade!

To read more about Applitools’ visual UI testing and Application Visual Management (AVM) solutions, check out the resources section on the Applitools website. To get started with Applitools, request a demo or sign up for a free Applitools account.

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SAN MATEO, Calif., July 12, 2017 – Applitools, leader in AI-powered Automated Visual Testing and Monitoring for mobile, web, and native apps, today announced it has raised an $8 Million round led by Sierra Ventures, with participation by Bessemer Venture Partners and existing investors Magma Venture Partners, iAngels, and La Maison. With this current round, Applitools’ funding reaches $15 Million. Former SVP at Salesforce and Slack CMO/CRO Bill Macaitis is also joining the Applitools Advisory Board. 

Applitools launched its SaaS offering in January 2015 and since then, usage has constantly grown 25% quarter-over-quarter. In 2016, MRR multiplied 3X over 2015 and similar growth is expected in 2017. Today, millions of visual tests are performed with Applitools each week. Applitools is trusted by companies of all sizes, including Fortune-100 customers in a variety of verticals: Banking, Software, Online Retail, Insurance, Pharmaceuticals, and more. Applitools’ 200+ customers include household names such as American Express, Intuit, Bose, Sony, Salesforce, Slack, ServiceNow, Twilio, Wix, and Siemens.

“We are very pleased to have Sierra Ventures and Bessemer Venture Partners join our existing investors in this new round of funding,” said Gil Sever, CEO of Applitools. “Their support validates our vision, and gives us the capital we need to continue our mission: to bring AI-powered Automated Visual Analysis to application test automation, application monitoring, and collaboration for automation engineers, DevOps, developers, and digital transformation leaders that need to adapt to Continuous Delivery. It’s been an exciting few years since inception, and the new funding will allow us to continue expanding our product offering and grow even faster.”

As part of the financing round, Tim Guleri, Managing Director of Sierra Ventures, joins the Applitools Board. “Tim’s years of entrepreneurial leadership in taking companies through the next stages of growth and execution, combined with his vast network of partners and customers, make him a valuable addition to the Applitools Board,” added Gil Sever.

“In today’s trend toward mass scale digitization across all verticals, a company’s Application User Interface is its proverbial ‘front door’, and is key to staying competitive,” said Tim Guleri, Managing Director of Sierra Ventures. “The breadth of device/browser combinations, coupled with continuously shortening development and release cycles, requires DevOps teams to fully automate the development and runtime as part of their digital transformation. Applitools is the only company that has used Artificial Intelligence at scale to provide a proven and robust solution for this acute pain-point. I am sure that their unique technology and execution can make them the leader of this new and exciting market segment.”

Applitools allows Test Automation, DevOps and Development teams to release software flawlessly and automatically through its SaaS Visual Testing and Monitoring product. Based on sophisticated image processing algorithms that mimic the human eye and brain, Applitools ensures that an app appears correctly and functions properly on all mobile devices, browsers, operating systems and screen sizes.

About Sierra Ventures
Founded in 1982 and investing its 11th venture fund, Sierra Ventures is a privately held venture capital firm that invests in early-stage, high growth emerging technologies companies. Sierra Ventures is known for working closely with exceptional entrepreneurs to build world-class category defining companies. A few of Sierra Ventures recent successful exits include the IPOs of InvenSense, Sourcefire, AuthenTec, and the acquisitions of Ooyala (by Telstra), Nexgate (by Proofpoint), Greenplum (by EMC), DynamicOps (by VMWare) and Bina Technologies (by Roche). Sierra has also backed prominent technology companies including Intuit, Healtheon, Active Software, Micromuse and Teradata.
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Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP) is a $4B venture capital firm that funds consumer, enterprise, and healthcare technology startups around the world, from seed stage to growth. BVP funded the early stages of Blue Apron, Pinterest, Twitch, Periscope, Skype, among others, and helped build 117 IPOs including Twilio, Yelp, LinkedIn, Shopify, and Wix.
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About Applitools
Applitools is on a mission to help Test Automation, DevOps and Development teams to release and monitor flawless mobile, web, and native apps in a fully automated way that enables Continuous Deployment. Founded in 2013, Applitools uses sophisticated AI-powered image processing technology to ensure that an app appears correctly and functions properly on all mobile devices, browsers, operating systems and screen sizes. Applitools has more than 200+ customers from a range of verticals, including Fortune-100 companies in Banking, Software, Online Retail, Insurance, Pharmaceuticals, and more. Applitools is based in San Mateo, California and Tel Aviv, Israel.
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To read more about Applitools’ visual UI testing and Application Visual Management (AVM) solutions, check out the resources section on the Applitools website. To get started with Applitools, request a demo or sign up for a free Applitools account.

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We are rolling out a shiny new UI for Applitools Eyes, with a brand new look and feel, and improved user experience on all fronts of automated visual testing.

• The new test manager is designed to streamline large-scale baseline management.
• There is a new step thumbprints gallery for easier to search test validation.
• We have improved batch, test, and step searching and filtering for easier search and test analysis.
• We have improved automated maintenance capabilities, including grouping of similar differences flagged across entire batches of tests.
• There are substantially reduced wait times for tests to complete.

We also share the best practices for using the new UI in the test manager.

What the full on-demand recording of the webinar featuring Applitools CEO Adam Carmi sharing the new Applitools Eyes UI here:

To read more about Applitools’ visual UI testing and Application Visual Management (AVM) solutions, check out the resources section on the Applitools website. To get started with Applitools, request a demo or sign up for a free Applitools account.

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Check out Applitools Eyes awesome new features, making automated visual testing better and faster! 

(1) Optimize image download when viewing test results (download scaled down images)

In order to make test result analysis even faster, we’ve improved loading time of images: a smaller image will load so you can see the results faster, and larger image parts will be downloaded only when zooming in.

(2) CheckRegion in nested frames for Selenium SDKs

Testing frames within nested regions just got a lot easier. Applitools Eyes helps you identify and test regions within nested frames quickly and painlessly – by automatically changing the webdriver context to the target frame, scrolling and stitching to capture the entire contents of the region and reverting to the original context – all with a single CheckRegion command.

(3) Allow setting an explicit baseline to enable cross-browser visual testing

Cross-browser testing is much easier with this new feature. By default, the test is automatically compared with a baseline that is specific to the execution environment (e.g. browser, device, screen resolution, etc.) of the application under test.

Cross-browser testing requires running the test across different execution environments; therefore it’s required to circumvent default baseline matching mechanism.

Setting an explicit Baseline name forces a test to run against that baseline – allowing the comparison a screenshots from different execution environments.

To learn more about this feature, read Dave Haeffner’s post: How to Do Cross-browser Visual Testing with Selenium.

(4) Added API to download an image with highlighted differences

For those of you who want to embed Applitools Eyes’ test results in your own custom reports, we have added an API that allows downloading test step images, which also include the highlighted differences, and embedding them into your existing reporting dashboard.

(5) Javascript and Ruby SDKs support full page screenshots

This important capability has now been ported to our Javascript and Ruby SDKs, and allows capturing full page screenshots even for browsers which only produce screenshots of their viewport.

(6) Handle retina displays by Javascript SDKs

Enhanced support for visual testing on retina screens: full page screenshots are no longer skewed, and are easily comparable to images obtained from non-retina systems.

(7) Applitools Eyes Express Chrome Extension: Using Pre-defined Scenarios

Test scenarios can now be loaded to Applitools Eyes Express Chrome Extension. This allows manual testers to easily follow pre-defined test scenarios, automatically setting each step as the test name (thus avoiding default names) – making 1-click visual testing even faster. This also allows QA managers to track testing process according to the defined scenarios.

(8) Applitools Eyes Express Chrome Extension: Comparing URLs against .png Images

Applitools Eyes Express Chrome Extension now allows verifying a web page/ web application against a given image (e.g. a PNG file from the designer). Simply click on the “Compare to image…” button in the “Baseline…” panel, and then select the image you want to compare to. After that, navigate to your web page, and simply run a test. The image captured from your web page will be compared against the image you previously selected.

Check out these new features yourself: Login to your Applitools Eyes account now.

To read more about Applitools’ visual UI testing and Application Visual Management (AVM) solutions, check out the resources section on the Applitools website. To get started with Applitools, request a demo or sign up for a free Applitools account.

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Vendors selected for the “Cool Vendor” report are innovative, impactful and intriguing.

Applitools, developer of cloud-based automated visual testing solution Applitools Eyes, announces today that Gartner Inc., the world’s leading IT research and advisory company, recognizes Applitools in its “Cool Vendors in Application Development, 2015” Report, published April 17, 2015.

Applitools was recognized as a “Cool Vendor” for Applitools Eyes – an automated visual testing solution, that automatically and instantly detects all UI bugs, validates cross-browser and cross-device interoperability, and tests for visual & functional regressions in any web, mobile or desktop app. 

By automating visual & functional testing processes (including content, layout and appearance) – which previously could only be tested manually – Applitools Eyes helps companies dramatically shorten QA time, as well as avoid more software bugs than ever before. In addition to substantially increasing coverage & accuracy, Applitools Eyes also substantially reduces maintenance efforts, due to its unique ability to automatically propagate changes across execution environments.

Applitools Eyes seamlessly integrates with any major test automation framework, such as: Selenium, HP QTP/UFT, Appium, MS CodedUI, Protractor and more, and augments any device/browser testing framework – either cloud-based or emulators – such as: Sauce Labs, Perfecto Mobile, HP Mobile Center, and BrowserStack, just to name a few.

“We are honoured to be named a ‘Cool Vendor in Application Development’ by Gartner. In addition to our long list of satisfied customers, we feel this undoubtedly offers the strongest market validation to our automated visual testing solutions”, said Gil Sever, CEO and Co-founder of Applitools.
“Competition requires companies to release superior products faster, while keeping QA expenses & overhead at bay; this is why companies realize they must improve Continuous Deployment processes, making them faster, more robust and fully automated. As this reality continues to evolve, Applitools is uniquely positioned to answer those rapidly growing needs, with our innovative products and solutions.”

Gartner subscribers can read the full “Cool Vendors in Application Development 2015” report here.

About Applitools:
Applitools is the provider of innovative and leading automated visual testing solutions. Its first solution – Applitools Eyes – was released in early 2014, and is now used by leading software companies, among them: SAP, Wix, HP, NICE, Conduit, Navinet, AOL and CA, just to name a few.
In May 2014, Applitools secured $2.5 Million in Series A funding from Magma Venture Partners.
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To read more about Applitools’ visual UI testing and Application Visual Management (AVM) solutions, check out the resources section on the Applitools website. To get started with Applitools, request a demo or sign up for a free Applitools account.

Gartner Disclaimer:
Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner’s research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

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