Company:Runscope
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| Type | Private |
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| Industry | API Testing, Software Testing |
| Founded | 2013 (San Francisco , California ) |
| Founder | John Sheehan, Frank Stratton |
| Headquarters | , U.S. |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | John Sheehan (CEO), Frank Stratton (CTO) |
| Products | Runscope |
Runscope is a SaaS-based company that sells software for API performance testing, monitoring and debugging. Runscope is based in San Francisco , California .
General
Runscope provides cloud-based and hybrid on-premises software that allows businesses to monitor, test, and debug web service APIs. Runscope API tests can be used to test against services available in the public cloud, running on a private network behind a firewall, or running on a local development environment.
Integrations
Runscope integrates with continuous integration and deployment platforms, such as Jenkins,[1] Amazon CodePipeline,[2] CircleCI[3] and TeamCity. Runscope’s API methods for executing tests and checking on test status allows it to be integrated with other CI/CD tools and platforms as well.[4]
Runscope supports a variety of notification options for sending test completion (and failure) results. Runscope integrates with team communication platforms Slack,[5] HipChat and Flowdock. Runscope also integrates with incident management systems AlertOps, PagerDuty, VictorOps, OpsGenie and StatusPage.io.
Runscope also integrates with third-party software analytics platforms, including New Relic Insights, Keen IO and Datadog.
History
Runscope was founded in 2013 by John Sheehan and Frank Stratton.[6]
Runscope has raised approximately $7.1 million in venture capital funding. Runscope received its first round of seed funding in May 2013 for the amount of $1.1 million from Andreesen Horowitz, True Ventures, Lerer Hippeau Ventures, Jon Dahl, Nat Friedman, David Cohen, and Ullas Naik. Runscope’s A round of funding was led by General Catalyst Partners.[7]
In September 2017, CA Technologies acquired Runscope.[8][9] CA Technologies also owns Blazemeter,[10] a load testing platform for software. In July 2019 two platforms were merged into one under Blazemeter brand.[11]
In September 2021, Broadcom, who acquired CA Technologies in 2018, announced that it would sell BlazeMeter to Perforce.[12] Perforce announced that it had completed the acquisition process November 1, 2021.[13]
Acquisitions
In December 2014, Runscope acquired Ghost Inspector, a company that provides cloud-based UI and browser testing for websites and web applications.[14]
References
- ↑ "jenkinsci/runscope-plugin" (in en). 29 January 2021. https://github.com/jenkinsci/runscope-plugin.
- ↑ "Product Integrations" (in en). https://aws.amazon.com/codepipeline/product-integrations/.
- ↑ "CircleCI Documentation: Notifications" (in en). https://circleci.com/docs/1.0/configuration/#notify. Retrieved 15 March 2017.
- ↑ Runscope Inc.. "Build, CI, Deployment Integrations · Docs · Runscope API Performance Monitoring · Runscope" (in en). https://www.runscope.com/docs/api-testing/integrations.
- ↑ Khan, Sieeka (2021-03-24). "Slack Launches Slack Connect that Lets Users Direct Message Anyone Outside Their Workplace" (in en). https://www.techtimes.com/articles/258371/20210324/slack-channel-based-messaging-platform-unveils-connect-feature-lets-users.htm.
- ↑ "Runscope Lands $1.1M From True Ventures And Andreessen Horowitz For Tools That Address The Broken API Plague" (in en-US). 22 May 2013. https://social.techcrunch.com/2013/05/22/runscope-lands-1-1m-from-true-ventures-and-andreessen-horowitz-for-tools-that-address-the-broken-api-plague/.
- ↑ Frederic Lardinois (10 April 2014). "API Testing Service Runscope Raises $6M Series A Round Led By General Catalyst, Launches Enterprise Tools". TechCrunch. AOL. https://techcrunch.com/2014/04/10/api-testing-service-runscope-raises-6m-series-a-round-led-by-general-catalyst-announces-enterprise-tools/.
- ↑ "CA acquires Runscope to round out API testing and monitoring portfolio" (in en-US). 2017-09-28. https://siliconangle.com/2017/09/28/ca-acquires-runscope-round-api-testing-monitoring-portfolio/.
- ↑ "CA Technologies acquires Runscope – What's Next for the API Economy?". https://smartbear.com/en/blog/ca-technologies-acquires-runscope-whats-next-for-t/.
- ↑ "Runscope is joining BlazeMeter" (in en-US). https://blog.runscope.com/posts/runscope-is-joining-blazemeter.
- ↑ "Runscope is joining BlazeMeter". https://blog.runscope.com/posts/runscope-is-joining-blazemeter.
- ↑ "Perforce to Acquire BlazeMeter Continuous Testing Platform From Broadcom - Perforce Software" (in en). 30 September 2021. https://www.perforce.com/press-releases/perforce-to-acquire-blazemeter-from-broadcom.
- ↑ Software, Perforce. "Perforce Completes BlazeMeter Acquisition". www.prnewswire.com (Press release). Retrieved 2021-11-12.
- ↑ "Ghost Inspector Joins Runscope on Quest for Better Software". Runscope Blog. http://blog.runscope.com/posts/ghost-inspector-joins-runscope-on-quest-for-better-software.
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