Tricentis is a software testing company founded in 2007 and headquartered in

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. It provides

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automation and

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products for

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History

Tricentis was founded in 2007 in

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, Austria, by Wolfgang Platz and Franz Fuchsberger, extending their previous consulting business into a software company. The company is headquartered in Austin, Texas. In 2000, Platz developed Tricentis Tosca Explorer, the predecessor to the core component of Tricentis Tosca. By 2006 Tricentis Tosca Commander was developed and launched into the market as the central GUI for the product. The product has since been extended to cover risk-based testing, test design, SAP testing,

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, exploratory testing, load testing, and

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management in addition to GUI testing.DevOps Chat: Continuous Testing with Sandeep Johri, CEO, Tricentis
by Alan Shimel, DevOps.com, March 9, 2018] In 2012, Tricentis raised $9 million in early-stage investment from Viewpoint, now part of

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. In 2013, Sandeep Johri became the CEO. In 2017, Tricentis received $165 million in series B funding from

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. In July 2020, Tricentis entered a partnership with SAP, an enterprise software corporation. Under the partnership, the Tricentis continuous testing platform will be the testing platform for the SAP Solution Extensions program and is being integrated into the SAP Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) portfolio. The Tricentis tools use machine learning algorithms to identify potential integration risks between SAP and third-party applications. They are also used to automate end-to-end testing across SAP and associated applications. In April 2021, Kevin Thompson became the CEO and chairman of the board.

Acquisitions

In 2017, Tricentis acquired Flood.io, an on-demand load testing platform.Tricentis makes its first acquisition to help developers build more scalable apps
by Maria Deutscher, Silicon Angle July 27, 2017Tricentis Acquires Flood IO, Scaling Open Source On-Demand Load Testing for DevOps
by Parker Yates, DevOps.com July 27, 2017Tricentis acquires load testing provider Flood IO
by Christina Cardoza, SD Times July 27, 2017Automated software testing company Tricentis acquires load-testing platform Flood IO
by Paul Sawers, VenureBeat July 27, 2017Why Tricentis acquired Flood IO
by Christian Hargrave, App Developer Magazine July 28, 2017 In 2018, Tricentis merged with QASymphony, a test management software company and acquired Q-up test data management. In 2019, Tricentis acquired IntelliCorp's change impact analysis for SAP product LiveCompare, as well as LiveModel and LiveInterface. Also in 2019, Tricentis acquired TestProject, a community-powered test automation platform. TestProject is built on the open-source test automation tools Selenium and Appium, and uses AI-based matching to automatically analyze applications and recommend add-ons to enhance testing. In January 2020, Tricentis acquired SpecFlow, which allows developers to define, manage, and execute human-readable tests using behavior-driven development (BDD). SpecFlow reached its end of life (EOL) on December 31, 2024. In March 2021, Tricentis acquired

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, a performance testing tool for modern and legacy technologies including SAP, APIs,

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, and cloud native apps.

Services

Tricentis provides international services to several industries including the financial, commerce, insurance, healthcare, telecommunications, logistics and transports, utilities, and software industries. In addition, it provides training and consulting services in the areas of software quality assurance. These services include programs related to test automation and transformation.

Products

Tricentis' main products include Tricentis Tosca, qTest, LiveCompare,

NeoLoad NeoLoad ( load and stress testing) is an automated performance testing platform for enterprise organizations continuously testing from APIs to applications. It provides testers and developers automatic test design and maintenance, the most realis ...

, and Tricentis Test Automation for ServiceNow. Tosca is a

continuous testing Continuous testing is the process of executing automated tests as part of the software delivery pipeline to obtain immediate feedback on the business risks associated with a software release candidate.

tool that combines multiple aspects of software testing (test case design, test automation, test data design and generation, and analytics) to test GUIs and APIs from a business perspective.Value-Based Coverage Measurement in Requirements-Based Testing: Lessons Learned from an Approach Implemented in the TOSCA Testsuite, 2012 38th Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications
by R. Ramler, T. Kopetzy, W. Platz, 2012 38th Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications October 11, 2012. LiveCompare is a change impact analysis tool that uses AI to detect potential risks within SAP ecosystems. NeoLoad is an automated performance testing platform for enterprise organizations continuously testing from APIs to applications. Tricentis Test Automation for ServiceNow is a testing tool that is deployed on the ServiceNow platform.

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External links

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