The first was in 1997 when SQA was acquired by Rational Software, a much larger development company out of California. I built our entire company around supporting these tools and as the market grew, so did the vendors (and our) success.īigger firms took notice and the acquisitions began. If you could make any of these tools work, you could command top dollar in the industry. This was before load testing tools had made their way into the test automation suite on the Windows platform. I started out supporting SQA Robot, an automated functional testing tool, which competed head-to-head with Mercury-Interactive's Winrunner and Segue's QAPartner (we later joined the Mercury partnership). They were the early testing tools on the Windows platform (other tools already existed on the Unix and mainframe platforms). SQA, out of Woburn, MA, and Mercury-Interactive, out of Israel by way of Sunnyvale, CA, were the leaders with Segue Software out of Lexington, MA as the upstart. When I started in the test automation business way back in 1994, there were 2 main software vendors and one up-and-coming one. The genesis for this post is twofold: (1) the news last week that MicroFocus was purchasing "the non-core assets" from HPE's software group, including the testing tools that had come from HP's acquisition of Mercury-Interactive ten years ago, and (2) the 20th anniversary of my company, which was born around these tools (see posting) has me waxing nostalgic.
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