Quality First Software GmbH has released the new branch of their professional test automation tool for Web and Java GUIs in feature-complete version 3.5.0.

Coverity, Inc., the leader in development testing, and NT OBJECTives (NTO), a leading provider of automated, comprehensive and accurate web application security software and services, today announced the companies have formed a partnership to enable the industry's first "developer-ready" Interactive Application Security Testing (IAST) solution.

AccuRev announced the latest version of GitCentric (formally known as Kando), bridging the Git revision control system with AccuRev’s intelligent stream approach to enterprise software development.

Codice Software, creators of the enterprise oriented Distributed Version Control System (DVCS) called Plastic SCM, today launched Semantic Merge, the world's first language-aware source code merge tool. Using advanced merge technology built into Codice Software's signature product, Plastic SCM, Semantic Merge lets software developers easily consolidate files that are heavily refactored in parallel by different developers, regardless of the code programming language.

WANdisco, a provider of high-availability software for global enterprises to meet the challenges of Big Data and distributed software development, today announced that fully tested and certified binaries for open source Apache Subversion releases 1.6.21 and 1.7.9, are now available from its website. Subversion release 1.7.9 is the most complete Subversion release to date, and Subversion 1.6.21 is the most complete release for the Subversion 1.6 series. Users are encouraged to upgrade as soon as possible.

Sauce Labs Inc, the provider of cloud-based web application testing solutions for software developers, today announced a pivotal new partnership with Travis CI, a hosted Continuous Integration service for open source developers. The partnership enables Travis CI to offer Continuous Integration services in the cloud for Mac and iOS builds while providing integrated access to the Sauce Labs testing tools. As a result, these developers for Mac OS X and iOS apps can begin employing the same Continuous Integration practices already used for Linux in the Travis cloud that support Agile and rapid deployment methodologies.

SmartBear Software has just released WebLoadUI. Offering a range of features typically found only in costly tools and sporting a user interface that is intuitive and easy–to-use, the free performance, stress and load testing tool offers the more than one million developers in the SoapUI open source community and other developers the ability to easily load test Web servers and services without being tied down to trial periods or budget constraints.

Riverbed Technology (NASDAQ: RVBD), the application performance company, today announced the availability of Riverbed® OPNET AppInternals Xpert® 8.5, a unified application performance management (APM) suite that provides deep visibility into the performance of complex, multi-tier applications. The new features in OPNET AppInternals Xpert 8.5 combine to give complete visibility into the performance of applications, from the browser to backend databases. By integrating end-user experience monitoring with code-level transaction tracing and monitoring of application and system performance metrics, application support teams and developers now have the information they need to more quickly and collaboratively identify, troubleshoot, and debug application performance issues.

Sauce Labs today announced they are providing automated testing for Internet Explorer's modern.IE update. The service adds Sauce Labs' cross-browser testing cloud to bring dynamic code-scanning to modern.IE, a newly launched scanner for common coding problems that often result from building for modern browsers like Internet Explorer 10 and 9 while supporting older versions of Internet Explorer.

Distributed Load Testing Made Easy for a Leading Global Provider of Virtualization Solutions with MSys’ PurpleStrike Real Time (PSRT) Load Tester. MSys, a leading provider of cost-effective test automation solutions and a registered technical partner of Amazon Web Services (AWS), is proud to announce its expansion of testing services into distributed load testing using Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). MSys’ PurpleStrike Real Time (PSRT) Load Tester allows customers to create tens of thousands of user sessions on a geographically distributed environment to generate the real-time load.