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mabl and the art of believing a red light
Software teams can automate thousands of checks and still distrust the result. mabl sells a way to make testing easier - and its own engineers offer a useful lesson in knowing when to stop.
ACCELQ’s first sale was $300. The real prize was less test repair.
Software changes. Tests break. ACCELQ built its business around making that expensive little ritual less inevitable - and letting the people who understand the work help automate it.
Rapid and the price of a shortcut
Rapid made APIs easier to find, test, and buy. Its journey from a teenage founder’s marketplace to Nokia’s network ambitions reveals the awkward business of selling developers time.
Parasoft and the Art of Not Waiting
A bank loses five days a month waiting to test its software. Parasoft’s answer is to build a convincing substitute for the system everyone is waiting for - and get on with the work.
Katalon
Katalon is an Atlanta-based software company that builds an AI-augmented, all-in-one quality management platform for software testing. Its flagship products - Katalon Studio, TestOps, TestCloud, and the newer TrueTest - let QA and DevOps teams create, run, and analyze automated tests across web, mobile, API, and desktop applications with both low-code and full-code approaches. Spun out of KMS Technology, Katalon is used by more than 30,000 teams across 80+ countries and has repeatedly been named a G2 Leader in software testing.
Provar
Provar is a UK-founded software company that builds test automation and quality management tools purpose-built for the Salesforce ecosystem. Its low-code platform - anchored by Provar Automation and Provar Manager - lets both manual testers and developers create resilient, metadata-aware tests across UI, APIs and data layers that survive Salesforce's three-times-a-year release cadence. Founded in 2014 by veterans of highly regulated banking projects, Provar has grown into the category leader for Salesforce QA, and was first to market with automated end-to-end testing for Salesforce's Agentforce AI agents.
ThinkSys Inc
ThinkSys Inc is a global technology services, software engineering, and consulting company founded in 2012 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with delivery operations in Noida, India. It specializes in quality assurance and software testing, QA automation, custom software development, DevOps, and cloud (AWS) consulting, serving 300+ clients across SaaS, FinTech, healthcare, retail, e-commerce, and education. Fully CMMI Level-3 and ISO 27001 certified, the firm pairs an engineering-first culture with a reputation for top-rated client reviews on G2 and Clutch.
Postman
Postman is the world's leading API platform, used by more than 35 million developers and 500,000+ organizations to design, build, test, document and monitor APIs. What began in 2012 as a side-project Chrome extension to debug HTTP requests is now an AI-native, end-to-end API workspace - the connective tissue behind a huge chunk of the modern internet.