SmartBear has appointed Dan Faulkner, the company’s Chief Product Officer, as Chief Executive Officer.
SmartBear announced a strategic partnership with China-based DragonSoft, a DevSecOps solution provider and Atlassian Platinum Solution Partner.
“Delivering high quality software applications and APIs is becoming more important in an age where every company needs to think and act as an ecommerce company,” said YS Lee, Vice President, Asia Pacific at SmartBear. “DragonSoft has a clear focus on DevSecOps and Agile development framework, combined with a long list of satisfied customers and successful partnerships with local and overseas vendors. This makes us very confident that the addition of the market-leading portfolio of SmartBear solutions will enable even faster innovation to be delivered to customers throughout China.”
“SmartBear is a leading vendor in the software QA space,” said Ming He, President of DragonSoft. “The company’s automated testing tools, such as TestComplete and ReadyAPI, are all well-regarded in the marketplace on a global basis. We are excited to kick off this partnership where DragonSoft will introduce the SmartBear suite of offerings to the Chinese market, as well as address local customers’ test automation needs. This collaboration will bring our one-stop-shop DevSecOps solutions to the next level, which will help organizations in China improve their software quality and test efficiency with faster releases.”
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