Runscope
Software testing tool
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| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | API Testing, Software Testing |
| Founded | 2013 (San Francisco, California) |
| Founder | John Sheehan, Frank Stratton |
| Headquarters | San Francisco , 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 allow 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 Andreessen 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, Which acquired CA Technologies in 2018, announced that it would sell BlazeMeter to Perforce.[12] Perforce announced that it had completed the acquisition process on 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". GitHub. 29 January 2021. Retrieved 2023-11-18.
- ^ "Product Integrations". Amazon Web Services, Inc. Retrieved 2023-11-18.
- ^ "CircleCI Documentation: Notifications". Retrieved 15 March 2017.
- ^ Runscope Inc. "Build, CI, Deployment Integrations · Docs · Runscope API Performance Monitoring · Runscope". runscope.com.
- ^ Khan, Sieeka (2021-03-24). "Slack Launches Slack Connect that Lets Users Direct Message Anyone Outside Their Workplace". Tech Times. Retrieved 2021-04-05.
- ^ "Runscope Lands $1.1M From True Ventures And Andreessen Horowitz For Tools That Address The Broken API Plague". TechCrunch. 22 May 2013. Retrieved 2021-04-05.
- ^ Frederic Lardinois (10 April 2014). "API Testing Service Runscope Raises $6M Series A Round Led By General Catalyst, Launches Enterprise Tools". TechCrunch. AOL.
- ^ "CA acquires Runscope to round out API testing and monitoring portfolio". SiliconANGLE. 2017-09-28. Retrieved 2019-07-25.
- ^ "CA Technologies acquires Runscope – What's Next for the API Economy?". SmartBear.com. Retrieved 2021-04-05.
- ^ "Runscope is joining BlazeMeter". Runscope Blog. Retrieved 2019-07-25.
- ^ "Runscope is joining BlazeMeter".
- ^ "Perforce to Acquire BlazeMeter Continuous Testing Platform From Broadcom - Perforce Software". www.perforce.com. 30 September 2021. Retrieved 2021-11-12.
- ^ 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.
