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GORILLA LOGIC ANNOUNCES NEW CLOUD-BASED QUALITY AS A SERVICE (QAAS) OFFERING FOR AUTOMATED MOBILE APPLICATION TESTING

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 19:03:26 +0000

New Cloud Service and Testing Platform Automates and Streamlines Mobile App Testing for Improved Time-to-market and Quality

BOULDER, Colo., March 6, 2012 â�� Gorilla Logic, (www.gorillalogic.com), the leader in enterprise application development and automated mobile testing tools and services, today announced the Gorilla Logic Continuous QA Cloud: the industryâ��s first Quality as a Service (QaaS) offering that tests and tracks the quality of mobile apps across iPhone, iPad and Android platforms. Together with the latest version of the MonkeyTalk automated testing tool (see todayâ��s announcement entitled â��Gorilla Logic Releases MonkeyTalkâ��), Gorilla Logic now offers enterprises the tools and services needed to leverage a complete â��Continuous QAâ�� cycle when developing and deploying high quality mobile applications. â��Functional testing always has been a challenge for Agile development teams, and the new pressures in the mobile app space - shorter schedules, multiple device versions and more complex interactions - are driving teams nuts. Our customers are really seeking innovative solutions that can reduce their cost and time-to-market while improving overall application quality,â�� explained Ed Schwarz, vice president of engineering and co-founder of Gorilla Logic. â��Quality as a Service really cuts the Gordian Knot with an all-new approach that builds upon our years of experience building open source test tools and extending mobile app testing and quality to the cloud.â�� With Continuous QA Cloud, enterprises can focus on delivering quality apps to their customers by leveraging a â��Quality as a Serviceâ�� delivery model that eliminates time, cost and expertise barriers associated with QA of mobile applications. Gorilla Logicâ��s onshore/offshore service delivery model leverages both its U.S. and recently opened Bangalore, India office to provide a price point that represents real value for any serious project team. Processes, tools and expertise combine to provide the kind of reliability and quality teams frequently struggle to achieve - without imposing speed bumps in their Agile process. The new Gorilla Logic Continuous QA Cloud service provides:

A revolutionary platform which allows customers to test their apps automatically, on demand, across dozens or hundreds of mobile devices and simulators.
The power of Gorilla Logicâ��s industry-leading open-source testing tool - MonkeyTalk (formerly FoneMonkey). MonkeyTalkâ��s unique capabilities, from easy-to-work with record-playback to sophisticated data-driven test suites, are solving real-world functional testing challenges for mobile app teams worldwide. The latest MonkeyTalk expands these capabilities to include simpler and more powerful scripting and playback across both major mobile app platforms - Â iOS and Android.
QuickStart Services â�� a no-hassle service offering allows teams to be up and running with QaaS - with real test results in their hands every day - in three weeks without any learning curve or additional staff.

Organizations creating mobile apps today are challenged when it comes to testing, elaborates Schwarz. The field needs support to manage delivery quality in the face of ever-more-demanding consumer audiences, ever-shorter timeframes, and ever-expanding functionality These challenges only increase in the mobile space (gestures, location, direction, hybrid web apps, etc.). Most approaches still center around manual testing in developer desktop environments, assuming infrequent releases at long intervals.Â Â Schwarz says up to this point, Gorilla Logicâ��s open source MonkeyTalk (previously FoneMonkey) tools have been the leading innovation to address this issue. But challenges remain: the speed and integration the Agile Projects thrive on have left the QA team underserved. They have had to scramble to do the work of developers, integrators and operators just to make a test environment available, and their tools and integration are still are on the â��the wild west/roll your ownâ�� model.Â Â By bringing together an automation toolset focused on QA professionals with a zero-configuration, cloud-based, on-demand test execution and management platform, Gorilla Logicâ��s Continuous QA Cloud solves these problems without impacting delivery speed or requiring extensive re-tooling or skills acquisition. â��We have Â spent the last six months bringing together a complete offering - tools, process, expertise and the Gorilla Logic Continuous QA Cloud platform â�� to really change the game for Agile project teams delivering rich interactive applications - especially the QA teams,â�� said Stu Stern, CEO and co-founder of Gorilla Logic. â��Continuous QA Cloud combines the power of Agile practices, availability of on-demand cloud computing power and the business-point-of-view approach of functional testing in a way which the industry really hasnâ��t seen before.â�� Pricing and Availability Gorilla Logicâ��s Continuous QA Cloud Platform service is available immediately, priced based on customer need. For more information please visit (www.gorillalogic.com/quality-service/what-is-qaas). To read CEO Stu Sternâ��s blog on this announcement please visit (http://blog.gorillalogic.com/). About Gorilla Logic Gorilla Logic provides custom enterprise application development services on the ground and in the cloud to many of the worldâ��s leading software-driven organizations. It has a rich history of applying software engineering best practices to reduce the time and cost of delivering high-quality, full-featured applications with advanced functionality. Its technical leadership in mobile, rich Internet and enterprise applications showcases its broad platform expertise and exemplifies its commitment to software development best practices and quality. Gorilla Logicâ��s innovative work with emerging development platforms led to the creation of two industry leading open source tools for automated testing, MonkeyTalk (iPhone/iPad/Android applications - formerly FoneMonkey), and FlexMonkey (Flex applications). To download Gorilla Logicâ��s open source tools, and to learn more about the company and its services, please visit (www.gorillalogic.com).Â

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GORILLA LOGIC LAUNCHES FONEMONKEY FOR ANDROID, A NEW AUTOMATED OPEN SOURCE TESTING TOOL FOR ANDROID APPLICATIONS AND DEVICES

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 16:49:07 +0000

Latest open source-based automated testing tool fills gap in the Android development tool chain

SAN FRANCISCO, CA (AnDevCon Booth #605) Nov. 7, 2011 â�� Gorilla Logic, (www.gorillalogic.com), a leader in enterprise application development services and creators of open source test tools for mobile and Rich Internet Applications (RIA), today announced FoneMonkey (http://www.gorillalogic.com/fonemonkey) for Android, its latest open source automated testing tool for mobile applications.

The new Android testing capabilities complement the popular FoneMonkey for iOS (iPhone and iPad) automated testing tool and extends Gorilla Logicâ��s comprehensive open source automated testing solution set by bringing Android developers and QA testers the same recording/playback and test script generation already enjoyed by iOS developers. It benefits developers by providing rapid creation of functional testing scripts; allows testers without in-depth Android Software Developer Kit (SDK) knowledge to easily and quickly create testing scripts; and, offers increased application quality and faster time-to-market.

Specific features contained in FoneMonkey for Android include:

â�¢ Records and plays back user interface interactions with native Android applications

â�¢ Scripts are readable, maintainable and also can be created from scratch without recording

â�¢ An Eclipse-based control console provides easy creation and editing of automation scripts

â�¢ Scripts can be created and ran on an emulator or actual device

â�¢ Supports virtually all Android SDK UI components and gestures

â�¢ Is free and open source

â�¢ Provides automatic generation of extensible test scripts in either Java or JavaScript

â�¢ Offers ability to run tests in continuous integration environments

"With an explosion of mobile applications in the market and a number of automated software quality offerings existing (and more evolving) for performance testing for mobile applications, the manual effort involved in functional testing remains significant and very costly," said Melinda Ballou, project director for IDC's Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) service. "As companies increasingly put their brand out on mobile platforms and as business critical apps "go mobile," automation of functional testing across mobile platforms â�� including both iOS and Android â�� becomes key for business innovation and success."

Gorilla Logic's passion for delivering quality software applications for enterprise customers led to the creation of FoneMonkey. It is the only test tool for iOS and now Android that records all actions with the iPhone, iPad and Android phone while in use and plays them back as a test script at any time. It enables the interactive creation, editing and playback of automation scripts that exercise an application's user interface. Using FoneMonkey, developers and quality assurance team members can create suites of tests that automate and perform user operation sequences, and then verify results. FoneMonkey supports development as well as QA testing, and tests can easily be incorporated into continuous integration environments.

â��FoneMonkey for Android addresses a major gap in the Android development tool chain,â�� said Stu Stern, president and CEO of Gorilla Logic and co-creator of FoneMonkey. â��The FoneMonkey family of tools is the only record/playback functional testing tool for iOS and Android. With the addition of FoneMonkey for Android, Gorilla Logic has established its position as the pre-eminent provider of next generation functional testing tools for the mobile market.â��

Learn more about FoneMonkey for Android at (www.gorillalogic.com/fonemonkey4android).

About Gorilla Logic

Gorilla Logic provides custom enterprise application development services to many of the worldâ��s leading software-driven organizations. It has a rich history of applying software engineering best practices to reduce the time and cost of delivering high-quality, full-featured applications with advanced functionality. Its technical leadership in mobile, rich Internet and enterprise applications showcases its broad platform expertise and exemplifies its commitment to software development best practices and quality. Its innovative work with emerging development platforms led to the creation of industry leading open source tools for automated testing, FlexMonkey (Flex applications) and FoneMonkey (iPhone/iPad Apps/Android). To download Gorilla Logicâ��s open source tools, and to learn more about the company and its services, please visit (www.gorillalogic.com).

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GORILLA LOGIC NAMED A WINNER IN FLEX TESTING CATEGORY AT THIRD ANNUAL ATI AUTOMATION HONORS

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 19:41:30 +0000

FlexMonkey automated testing tool receives awards at ATI ceremony

BROOMFIELD, Colo., Oct. 25 , 2011 â�� Gorilla Logic, (www.gorillalogic.com), a leader in enterprise application development services and creators of open source test tools for mobile and rich Internet applications, today announced FlexMonkey (http://www.gorillalogic.com/ flexmonkey) was a winner in the Flex Testing category in the third annual Automated Testing Instituteâ��s (ATI) Automation Honors, the industryâ��s original set of awards dedicated to software test automation. In an effort to recognize excellence in the discipline of test automation, the awards rely on industry practitioners to identify which tools are the best, which have the most significant upgrades and/or which are setting the trends that will help take software test automation to the next level in the coming year.

â��We are excited to receive recognition by the Automated Testing Institute for our commitment to delivering the most versatile and complete testing solutions for QA engineers and developers who desire to improve the quality of their applications, said Stu Stern, CEO and co-founder of Gorilla Logic. â��The latest release of FlexMonkey provides the FLEX open source functional testing community with improved quality and delivers increased ROI by reducing manual testing.â�� FlexMonkey allows developers and testers of RIA to record, playback and verify real-world user interactions. FlexMonkey also generates ActionScript test scripts that teams can group into test suites that can easily be used within a continuous integration environment. Gorilla Logic created FlexMonkey in 2008, and continues to contribute to the Flex ecosystem with ongoing enhancements and dedicated support to its thousands of community members.

Winners were announced at this yearâ��s live awards ceremony held at the Verify/ATI 2011. In addition, winners and finalist will be highlighted in a special November issue of Automated Software Testing Magazine (http://www.astmagazine.automatedtestinginstitute.com).

About Gorilla Logic:

Gorilla Logic provides custom enterprise application development services to many of the worldâ��s leading software-driven organizations. It has a rich history of applying software engineering best practices to reduce the time and cost of delivering high-quality, full-featured applications with advanced functionality. Its technical leadership in mobile, rich Internet and enterprise applications showcases its broad platform expertise and exemplifies its commitment to software development best practices and quality. Its innovative work with emerging development platforms led to the creation of two industry leading open source tools for automated testing, FlexMonkey (Flex applications) and FoneMonkey (iPhone/iPad Apps). To download Gorilla Logicâ��s open source tools, and to learn more about the company and its services, please visit (www.gorillalogic.com).

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GORILLA LOGIC’S FLEXMONKEY OPEN SOURCE TESTING TOOL REACHES 10,000 DOWNLOADS

Fri, 27 May 2011 01:41:22 +0000

Company's Adobe Flex Functional Testing Tool Helps Developers Enhance the User Experience and Improve Their Interactions on the Web

BROOMFIELD, Colo., May 26, 2011 - Gorilla Logic, (www.gorillalogic.com), a leader in enterprise application development services and creators of open source test tools for mobile and rich Internet applications, today announced that demand for its popular FlexMonkey open source testing tool continues to increase and that downloads now exceed 10,000 (http://www.gorillalogic.com/flexmonkey).

FlexMonkey is the most widely used open source tool for testing Adobe Flex and AIR applications. With its 10,000^th download, FlexMonkey has established itself as the de-facto standard in this space. FlexMonkey allows developers and testers of rich Internet applications to record, playback and verify real-world user interactions. If desired, the test automation tool can also generate ActionScript test scripts that teams can easily use within a continuous integration environment. Gorilla Logic created FlexMonkey in 2008, and continues to contribute to the Flex ecosystem with ongoing enhancements and dedicated support to the community.

"We developed FlexMonkey because we know that automated testing capabilities are critical to the software development process," said Stu Stern, CEO of Gorilla Logic. "Our passion for quality drove us to develop these open source testing tools for our own engagements with customers, and we're proud to bring them to developers who care about quality software the way we do. This latest milestone of 10,000 downloads demonstrates the continuing value it brings to the developer community."

Gorilla Logic continues to lead in developing open-source automated test tools for emerging development platforms. In addition to FlexMonkey, Gorilla Logic has released FoneMonkey 5.0, bringing record-and-playback automated testing capabilities to the iPhone and iPad for the first time anywhere. Gorilla Logic's open source testing tools have grown out of the company's extensive experience providing mobile, web and rich Internet application development services to customers, from Fortune 500 companies to next-generation Internet start-ups.

"The open-source nature of FlexMonkey can be a real advantage," said the authors of the book Flex 4 in Action. It provides a high-quality solution out of the box, but with access to the source, you're able to update and modify the tool to fit your needs. This is something the commercial functional testing offerings don't offer."

For further information or to download FlexMonkey please visit (http://www.gorillalogic.com/flexmonkey).

About Gorilla Logic:

Gorilla Logic provides custom enterprise application development services to many of the world's leading software-driven organizations. It has a rich history of applying software engineering best practices to reduce the time and cost of delivering high-quality, full-featured applications with advanced functionality. Its technical leadership in mobile, rich Internet and enterprise applications showcases its broad platform expertise and exemplifies its commitment to software development best practices and quality. Its innovative work with emerging development platforms led to the creation of two industry leading open source tools for automated testing, FlexMonkey (Flex applications) and FoneMonkey (iPhone/iPad Apps). To download Gorilla Logic's open source tools, and to learn more about the company and its services, please visit (www.gorillalogic.com).

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GORILLA LOGIC, INC. NAMED TO THE MERCURY 100 LIST OF FASTEST GROWING PRIVATE COMPANIES IN BOULDER COUNTY

Wed, 18 May 2011 02:21:50 +0000

BROOMFIELD, Colo., May 17, 2011 - Gorilla Logic, (www.gorillalogic.com), a leader in enterprise application development services and creators of open source test tools for mobile and rich Internet applications, Gorilla Logic, was named to the Mercury 100 list this week. The distinguished listing by Boulder County Business Report, recognizes the 100 Fastest-Growing private companies in Boulder County based on two-year growth.

The Mercury 100 award criteria were based on years 2009 and 2010. These were tough years in the overall economy and Gorilla Logic was one of the few companies to experience growth while many other companies remained flat or experienced a dip.

This year, Gorilla Logic is growing once again, hiring nearly 10 percent more staff in just Q2. "We are on a significant trajectory as we continue to bring value to existing clients and expand our portfolio of software services into the mobile space," said Stu Stern, Gorilla Logic's CEO.

Gorilla Logic also is growing in another community; it is the cyber community known to technologists as the open source eco-system. The company is the creator of numerous free open source functional testing tools, including FlexMonkey, FoneMonkey and FlexMonkium. Its expanding business has been fueled by the demand for these open source functional testing tools.

"We have needed to add a dedicated support engineer to respond to the hundreds of requests on the forums and will soon be adding another. The response to our open source tools has ignited our consulting practice and created a trickle down effect with hiring. We are excited to be employing local software engineering talent and contributing to the expanding high-tech community that is becoming a main component to the Boulder business community and surrounding areas. It's all good stuff." said Stern.

The company will be recognized on May 17 at a reception held at Flatirons Park.

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GORILLA LOGIC TO SHARE MOBILE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT AND AUTOMATED TESTING BEST PRACTICES

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 19:08:03 +0000

GORILLA LOGIC TO SHARE MOBILE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT AND AUTOMATED TESTING BEST PRACTICES
AT iPHONE AND iPAD DEV CON 2011

Stu Stern, president, will demonstrate advancements of company's latest open source tool, FoneMonkey, for automated iPhone App testing

WHO: Stu Stern
         Gorilla Logic
         President and CEO
         (http://www.gorillalogic.com)

Stu Stern is a Founder and CEO of Gorilla Logic, Inc., a leader in enterprise application development services and creators of open source test tools for mobile and rich Internet applications. Stern is the creator of Gorilla Logic's category-leading open-source interactive testing tools: FoneMonkey, FlexMonkey, and FlexMonkium. Prior to founding Gorilla Logic, Stern was vice president of worldwide consulting services at Sun Microsystems (now Oracle), where he spoke frequently about Java and Internet application architecture at conferences around the globe. Prior to Sun, Stern was vice president of Equity Trading Systems at PaineWebber (now UBS).

WHAT: Automating iOS User Interface Testing

Automated functional testing is crucial to the development of all but the most trivial iPhone and iPad applications. A core suite of automated functional tests provides a solid foundation for rapidly iterating product releases by ensuring that the introduction of each new feature doesn't inadvertently break pre-existing functionality.

In this class, Stern will explore how to use FoneMonkey, a free and open source tool that automates functional testing of iPhone and iPad applications, to record, edit, playback and verify application functionality on iOS simulators and devices. He also will demonstrate how FoneMonkey scripts can be embedded within objective-C programs and extended to handle arbitrarily complex application usage scenarios.

The session with conclude with a discussion related to best practices for test automation that let developers get the maximum benefit from creating the minimum number of automated tests.

WHERE: iPhone/iPad DevCon 2011 conference
             Hyatt Regency Cambridge
             575 Memorial Drive
             Cambridge, MA 02139

WHEN: Wed., April 6, 2011
11:15 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Eastern

CONTACT: For more information or to set up an interview with Mr. Stern, please contact:
Christie Denniston
Catapult PR-IR
303-581-7760, ext. 13
(cdenniston@catapultpr-ir.com)