1. Testing Software In-the-Wild
• uTest: Expansion, Acquisition and Growth
– Founded 2008 - raised $37MM in four rounds of funding from top VCs
– HQ in Southborough, MA
– Offices in Cambridge, the Valley, Seattle, NYC, London & Tel Aviv
– 100+ fulltime employees
– Test web, desktop and mobile apps “In-the-Wild” in the real world
– Completed more than 30K test cycles for 1,000+ customers
– 70,000 professional testers from 190+ countries
– Acquired mobile app quality tool Apphance in seven-figure deal
– Named America’s 16th-fastest growing private company in 2012
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2. uTest Platform Tech Stack 2010-2011
• Client-side:
– Adobe Flex, talking AMF to server
• Server-side:
– Apache
– Jboss
- Drools Rules engine
- Home-spun scheduling
- Hibernate
– MySql
• Operational Problems:
– Drools problems hard to diagnose
– Monolithic
– No automation
– Manual Deployment
– No Production Monitoring
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3. uTest Platform Tech Stack 2011-2012
• Client-side:
– JavascriptMVC
– Jquery, Bootstrap
– REST API to backend
• Server-side:
– Apache / Tomcat
- Spring
- Hibernate
– MySql / AWS RDS
• Operational Improvements
– Test Automation
– Semi-continuous, Automated Deployment (by Developers)
– Production Monitoring
– Feature Gating / “Dark Launches”
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