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It’s been a busy few weeks around the hallowed halls of uTest (ok, they’re really more of a beige).  Somewhere between delivering the keynote at the QUEST conference, interviewing testing guru Scott Barber, and launching v3.0 of our platform, we found time to sign a partnership with SOASTA.

For those who don’t know them, SOASTA leverages the cloud to offer on-demand load & performance testing, which enables companies to test the real-world performance of their web apps.  In fact, the Wall Street Journal recently named them one of the top 50 VC-backed companies in all the land.  So what’s a crowd company doing partnering with a cloud company?  A lot, actually.

For starters, this partnership expands upon uTest’s recently announced load testing services.  As our customers and their apps become more sophisticated, they’re turning to uTest to provide them with real-world load testing.  And this partnership with SOASTA enables us to offer a unique package of on-demand load testing and advanced analytics to help our customers identify bottlenecks and points of failure between their apps and their users.

Second, SOASTA is now offering on-demand functional testing to its customers via uTest’s community of 25,000 testers from around the world.  This makes SOASTA unique in the load & performance category, and enables them to offer a more turnkey set of solutions to their customers.  This functional testing can either be in separate from SOASTA’s load testing runs, or performed while an app is under simulated load to test how it works under peak loads.

Third, this agreement enables handpicked uTesters to receive training on SOASTA’s CloudTest tools.  Then, these performance engineers can be deployed to spearhead load testing projects with customers of either firm.  This is where the partnership really puts the crowd into the cloud.  And the result is an army of well-trained performance engineers who can be brought into a customer project on an on-demand basis.

Finally, this partnership lays the groundwork for us to create future offerings that meet the testing needs of companies of all shapes and sizes.  We’re excited about the present and the future of this relationship with the great crew at SOASTA.  Interested in learning more about our load testing services?  Drop us a line to get more information and pricing details.