Applause - Best New DevOps Solution

Company: Applause, Framingham, MA
Company Description: Applause is the worldwide leader in crowdtesting and digital quality. With highly vetted testers available on demand around the globe, Applause provides brands with a full suite of testing and feedback capabilities. Thousands of leading companies — including Ford, Fox, Google and Dow Jones — rely on Applause as a best practice to deliver high-quality digital experiences that customers love.
Nomination Category: Product & Service Categories - Business Technology Solutions
Nomination Sub Category: DevOps Solution

Nomination Title: Applause Codeless Automation

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Applause Codeless Automation (ACA) was announced on February 24, 2021.

With the pace of change moving faster than ever, the quality of digital experiences and the speed at which they can be delivered has become paramount. Brands must get exceptional digital assets into the hands of their end users quicker than competitors, or they risk losing market share. This requirement for quality at the speed of development has led test automation to take on greater importance across all industries. However, building and maintaining a complete automation framework takes time, and hiring experts – who are high in demand and low in supply – can be cost-prohibitive.

To address these needs, Applause announced its new Applause Codeless Automation (ACA) SaaS product, which enables brands’ employees to create test automation scripts without writing a single line of code.

With ACA, a user simply picks a device of their choice, and as they move through the test case, their actions are automatically recorded. The ACA product then translates that session into an automation script. This streamlined process results in increased speed, faster releases and reduced costs.

The SaaS product lowers the barrier to entry to automation, accelerates teams’ ability to drive coverage and allows them to mature and scale their test automation capabilities. ACA enables teams to execute codeless test scripts on real devices for native Android and iOS mobile apps, with web support coming soon. All issues are automatically captured and added to clients’ existing bug tracking systems, and scripts comply with Appium and Selenium for ease of use.

ACA is something unique in the low-code/no-code testing space, as it is built for the enterprise – starting with the most advanced mobile support for both iOS and Android. ACA is valuable for multiple stakeholders – those responsible for business applications can use ACA to test apps without needing SDETs or outside help, and DevOps managers can import the test scripts generated by ACA into their existing pipelines. By addressing testing needs throughout organizations, Applause Codeless Automation has the power to not only reduce the costs typically associated with automation, but it will also help brands get to full-fledged automation capabilities faster.

While it is too early since Applause Codeless Automation (ACA) launched to give monetary or sales figures, the market response has been very good, with analysts, customers and journalists all highlighting Applause Codeless Automation as a unique product in the DevOps space. This is because ACA is a codeless testing SaaS product that addresses not only web applications (as do many low-code/no-code testing solutions), but also offers testing for native mobile applications for both Android and iOS, something that is unique and differentiated in the market. Not only that, but the UI of the product is seamless and has been an aspect that early adopters have gravitated towards.

https: //www.applause.com/codeless-automation
https: //www.applause.com/blog/applause-pep-exceptional-experience
https: //devops.com/applause-automates-app-testing-via-saas-platform/
https: //developer-tech.com/news/2021/mar/15/featured-developers-list-of-innovative-companies-to-watch-in-2021/