Software tesing and quality control services provider uTest Inc. has acquired mobile app quality tools Apphance from Poland's Polidea for a few million dollars in cash and shares. uTest acquired Apphance's intellectual property and will employ the company's engineers to extend and build new functionality into what will go to market as uTest Apphance, a tool that will complement uTest’s in-the-wild testing services for mobile apps.
The uTest Apphance will provide an easy-to-use web platform for developers to view crashes, bugs and user feedback. After signing up, a developer adds Apphance code to their mobile app, enabling any device running their app in pre-production or production to integrate with Apphance. This enables developers and testers to see highly detailed diagnostics of each bug or crash, helping them identify the root cause and launch higher quality apps. To showcase the power of Apphance, uTest will be making it available to all developers free of charge until the end of 2012.
uTest CEO Doron Reuveni and VP product Roy Solomon founded the company in 2007. It is based in the US and has development activities in Israel. The company has raised $37.5 million to date from Scale Venture, QuestMark Partners, Egan Managed Capital, Longworth Ventures, and Mesco. It provides app testing services to Google Inc. (Nasdaq: GOOG), Amazon.com Inc. (Nasdaq: AMZN), Sony Corporation (NYSE: SNE; TSE: 6758) and other companies through over 60,000 software testers in 190 countries.
Reuveni said, “This acquisition is a giant step forward in the growth of uTest. By adding Apphance to our in-the-wild testing services, we’ve dramatically increased our value to customers and extended our position as an all-in-one testing solution for mobile developers around the world."
Published by Globes [online], Israel business news - www.globes-online.com - on August 15, 2012
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