Eggplant (software)
Eggplant is a software testing and monitoring company. Eggplant is a global company serving more than 650 enterprise customers in over 30 countries.
Industry | software industry |
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Genre | Test automation |
Founded | 2008 |
Headquarters |
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Area served | Worldwide |
Website | eggplantsoftware |
Eggplant has offices in London, Boulder, Colorado, Philadelphia, and Berlin, Germany, with additional development centers and regional offices around the world. Eggplant is owned by Keysight Technologies (NYSE: KEYS).
Products
Eggplant's products cover:
- Automated, AI-driven functional and usability testing
- Performance testing
- Robotic Process Automation (RPA)
- performance monitoring (real user and synthetic).
Many of these products work together. For example, real user journeys from monitoring can be used to build journeys for functional testing.
History
The company was originally founded in 2008 under the name Testplant. It was created to help organisations put users at the centre of software testing to create amazing digital experiences and drive user adoption, conversion, and retention. After an initial round of seed funding ($100,000), the company was able to invest in developing technologies ─ predominately the Digital Automation Intelligence Suite ─ which interacts with software exactly like a real user does. In 2018, the company rebranded as Eggplant to align with expansion and growth in the US market.
On 28 March 2018 Eggplant announced the acquisition of NCC Group's Web Performance Division.
On 25 June 2020, Eggplant was acquired by Keysight Technologies for $330 million from the Carlyle Group.[1]
Research
Eggplant has been named a Leader in Gartner's 2019 and 2018 Magic Quadrant for software test automation,[2] and a leader in the Forrester Wave: Omnichannel Functional Test Automation, Q3 2018.[3]
Awards
- 2017 SD Times 100: Best in Show in Software Development[4]
- Testplant wins third Queen's Award for Enterprise[5]
References
- "Keysight Technologies Press Release - Keysight Acquires Eggplant".
- "Gartner Magic Quadrant for Software Test Automation". Gartner. Retrieved 29 January 2019.
- "Forrester Wave Report 2018". Forrester. Retrieved 1 November 2018.
- "Testing 2017 - SD Times". Retrieved 19 October 2017.
- https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/518539/2016-winners-of-the-queen_s-awards-for-enterprise-press-book.pdf, p.28