Cloud Computing: SOASTA buys LogNormal to beef up mobile app testing
October 2, 2012
Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Barb Darrow.
The two companies were already working together on mPulse when they decided a deal was in order. The new product aims to give mobile and web developers a real-time look at how their apps are perfroming in the field, said SOASTA CEO Tom Lounibos.
SOASTA, the startup that made its name in cloud-based load testing, is buying LogNormal, which measures the performance of mobile and web applications. The acquisition, SOASTA’s first, is scheduled to be announced Tuesday at the same time SOASTA unveils mPulse, a new product that incorporates LogNormal technologies…
mPulse promises to give developers and their companies a real-time glimpse into how their application is actually working in the field. A spinning globe dashboard shows all connections in real-time and users can drill down to the household level to see what device is running the application and how it’s performing. Latency issues, for example, will show up. “Web and mobile apps have different useability issues — things like the placement of buttons really matter in mobile — so we give a far higher level of intelligence about how the apps are used,” Lounibos said…
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