IBM isn’t wasting any time getting into acquisition mode in 2012. Big Blue just announced an agreement to acquire a cloud software quality and testing solutions company. IBM is snapping up Green Hat for an undisclosed amount.
Simply stated, Green Hat helps its customers improve the quality of software applications by enabling developers to leverage cloud computing technologies to conduct testing on a software application before it is delivered.
IBM had a good reason to acquire Green Hat, namely demand. According to the National Institute for Standards and Technology, software testing represents more than 50 percent of overall development costs. And testing teams often spend upward of 30 percent of their time managing the complexity of the test environment.
Modern App Testing
Green Hat curbs those costs by creating a virtual environment that simulates a wide range of IT infrastructure elements, without the constraints of hardware or software services. IBM said the continuous environment empowers developers and quality professionals to test software earlier and more frequently throughout the software development lifecycle.
In the past, a development team had to construct an actual testing lab with both hardware and software to run simulation testing on a software program. That was a time consuming and labor intensive process. But when you add to that today’s shorter development cycles, especially in markets like smartphones and tablets, the complexity is compounded. Green Hat’s solutions lets developers set up a virtual test environment in minutes vs. weeks and at a fraction of the cost.
“This acquisition extends IBM’s leadership in driving business agility and software quality by changing the way enterprises can manage software development cost, test cycle time and risk,” said Kristof Kloeckner, general manager of IBM Rational. “Green Hat’s application virtualization capabilities will help our customers accelerate their delivery of business critical software.”
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