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Innovative Defense and the art of testing again
A Navy software update can be ready long before the fleet can use it. Innovative Defense Technologies has built a business around shortening the distance between working code and proven capability.
Astadia: Change the machine. Keep the business.
The software that runs a business often knows more than its documentation admits. Astadia moves that accumulated knowledge into new technology, then tests whether it still behaves like the original.
NI Made the Test Bench Programmable. Emerson Bet $8.2 Billion It Could Make It Bigger
For nearly 50 years, NI has sold engineers a stubbornly useful idea: the instrument is better when software calls the shots. Now the company has Emerson's scale, an AI assistant named Nigel and the harder task of modernizing without breaking the systems customers already trust.
Meticulous Wants Your Users to Write the Tests - So Your Engineers Can Ship the Code
The old bargain was simple: write more tests or accept more bugs. Meticulous is betting that recorded behavior, deterministic browsers and a startling amount of parallel compute can break that bargain - just as AI agents make verification the slowest part of shipping software.
Prodly
Prodly is a Palo Alto-based software company that builds DevOps automation for Salesforce, focused on the parts of the platform that most deployment tools ignore: configuration data. Its AppOps suite handles release management, sandbox seeding, automated regression testing, data migration and compliance reporting so admins and developers can move CPQ, Revenue Cloud and other low-code changes between environments without hand-copying records or breaking production. Founded in 2014 by Max Rudman - who previously founded SteelBrick, the product Salesforce acquired and rebranded as Salesforce CPQ - Prodly raised a $10M Series A in 2021 and positions itself as the tool teams add when relational data deployment is the gap other DevOps platforms leave open.