We have some exciting news to share as we end the week. In recognition of our innovative visual UI testing and monitoring technology, we’ve been selected as a finalist for the Red Herring 100 North America. Every year Red Herring recognizes the most promising privately-held companies in North America based upon their technological innovation, management strength, market size, investor record, customer acquisition, and financial health. During the months leading up to today’s announcement, Red Herring reviewed over 1,200 companies in the telecommunications, security, cloud, software, hardware, biotech, mobile and other industries that completed their submissions to qualify for the award.

As a finalist for the award, our CEO and Co-Founder Gil Sever will present our approach to helping customers create visually perfect digital experiences through AI powered visual UI testing and monitoring at the Red Herring North America Forum in Marina Del Rey on June 18-20, 2018. Shortly thereafter, the Top 100 winners will be announced at an awards ceremony on the evening of June 20.

The Red Herring process is robust and does an excellent job of cutting through the “hype” of many companies and industries. This is why it is such a prestigious award. Their editorial team selects the most innovative companies from a pool of hundreds from across North America. The nominees are evaluated on 20 main quantitative and qualitative criterion, which include disruptive impact, market footprint, proof of concept, financial performance, technology innovation, social value, quality of management, execution of strategy, and integration into their respective industries. This unique assessment of potential is complemented by a review of the track record and standing of a company, which allows Red Herring to see past the “buzz” and make the list a valuable instrument for and discovering and advocating the greatest business opportunities in the industry.

“This year was rewarding, beyond all expectations,” said Alex Vieux, publisher and CEO of Red Herring. “There are many great companies generating really innovative and disruptive products in North America. We had a very difficult time narrowing the pool and selecting the finalists. Applitools shows great promise and therefore deserves to be among the finalists. Now we’re faced with the difficult task of selecting the Top 100 winners of Red Herring North America. We know that the 2018 crop will grow into some amazing companies that are sure to make an impact.”

We are honored to have made it this far in the process, and look forward to hearing about the final winners next week. We will keep you posted!

Want to learn more about Applitools? Request a demo and check out this video from our CTO and co-founder, Adam Carmi:

Watch the full recording of this hands-on advanced session right here.

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Have you ever asked yourself why all apps aren’t web apps? Well, this is actually already the case on desktops and most of the apps you use at home and/or at work. When it comes to productivity apps, Microsoft, Apple, and Google all have full-featured web apps that are just as capable as locally installed desktop applications. As long as you have good wired or wireless internet, you can do nearly all of your work in Chrome, Edge, or Safari. Apart from specific categories, such as graphics, video editing, software development, and high-end gaming, you can do nearly everything in a web browser.

Mobile, however, is a different story.

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It is probably safe to assume that any developers reading this article are already testing their applications. At the bare minimum, you’re testing the feature you’re working on as you develop it and checking that it works with any existing code. Many of you are probably using some form of automated functional testing as well. These types of testing are certainly important and they help to ensure that your applications work as expected, but adding visual testing into the mix will improve your testing significantly.

Today, users access applications in a variety of ways, including wearables, smartphones, tablets, laptops, desktop PCs, and an increasing range of smart devices. Now, developers need to account for the ways in which these new and diverse technologies change how their software is presented to and perceived by their users. The typical forms of testing we’ve relied upon for so long simply can’t detect the problems that may exist on every possible device. This is why developers now need to test the visual aspects of their applications. In recent years, developers have started using visual testing methods, tools, and frameworks to meet these new challenges.  

In this post, we make the case that it’s wise to use visual testing. Even if you, your team, or your organization are old hands at automated functional testing, we’ll explain why you should add visual testing into your existing infrastructure. We also offer advice about available tools, frameworks, and solutions that will help you get started. Whether you’re a novice developer or a seasoned veteran, the information presented in this post will help you deliver the best experience for your users.

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At an industry event recently I had the opportunity to listen to a keynote by Janet Gregory, co-author of “Agile Testing” and “More Agile Testing”. During the talk, Janet asked the audience to pair up. One person stood facing the stage and projected slides, the other to face away. The person facing the slides was to tell their partner what they saw. They had 5 minutes to describe in every detail what was going on in the picture. The person facing away was told to visualize it. To try to remember and visualize every detail spoken to them.

When the clock ticked down and the five minutes were up. Janet asked the folks facing away from the image if they thought they had a good visualization of the image. Of course they did, they’d just heard 5 minutes worth of words detailing it.

Then she asked everyone to look at the image.

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Applitools heads to Velocity Conference to educate on visual UI testing

From June 11-15, 2018, we continue along the software engineering and development conference circuit with a stop at O’Reilly Velocity Conference San Jose (@velocityconf).

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Whether you’re a test automation engineer or a manual tester, it’s crucial to track what is your test environment. This enables your developers to easily replicate bugs found and avoids the frustration of not being able to reproduce those problems.

It’s also important to track your web or mobile app user interface history using a UI version control system. This helps your developers, product managers, and designers understand what’s been tried, what’s worked, and what hasn’t worked so that the entire team can iterate the UI rapidly, in an Agile fashion, to a product that works well for customers.

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The Better Software West conference (#BetterSoftwareCon) is here and we couldn’t be more excited! Catch us in Vegas from June 6-7, as Gold Sponsors of the event regarded as the show for promoting and educating attendees on – you guessed it –  building better software. It is co-located with Agile Dev West and DevOps West, offering three conference programs to choose from.

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Justin Ison – Sr. Software Engineer

Watch this webinar, presented by Sr. Software Engineer Justin Ison, to find out about the crucial information automated exploratory tests give us on our native mobile app, and learn Justin’s proven step-by-step “How-to and Best Practices” Guide to automated exploratory testing.

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Watch Paul Grizzaffi’s expert webinar, as he makes the point that automation development is software development, and takes us through the ins and out of why, and how, to perform code review on automation code.

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