BlazeMeter

BlazeMeter

Company type	SaaS
Genre	Load Testing
Founded	2011[1]
Founder	Alon Girmonsky
Headquarters	Mountain View  , United States
Website	BlazeMeter.com

BlazeMeter is a continuous testing platform that was acquired in 2021 by Perforce Software, which is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It provides enterprise-level GUI functional testing, performance testing, API functional testing, mock services, test data management, API monitoring, and reporting.

History

BlazeMeter was originally founded in 2011 and was acquired by CA Technologies in 2016, which became a subsidiary of Broadcom Inc. in 2018.[2]  

In October 2021, BlazeMeter was acquired by Perforce as part of its application quality and testing portfolio.

BlazeMeter is also a major contributor to open-source Apache JMeter, through JMeter plugins, fixes, and documentation.

Company

In December 2011, BlazeMeter announced raising $1.2 million financing from YL Ventures.[3]

BlazeMeter provides developers with tools using the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service that provides mobile, web application, website, web service, or database testing that can simulate thousands of users[4] visiting a website simultaneously.[5]

BlazeMeter can be extended with a series of custom plug-ins. BlazeMeter provides a free plugin to JMeter,[6] a Drupal module,[7] and a Jenkins CI plugin and Vegeta program[8] for load testing.

In 2012, BlazeMeter was selected by CRN as an "Emerging Cloud Computing Vendor" for 2012[9] and "One of the 25 Coolest Emerging Vendors For 2012" by CRN and UBM Channel.[10]

In August 2012, BlazeMeter announced a partnership with Acquia[11] a commercial open-source software company providing products, services, and technical support for the open source Drupal content management system.[12]

In May 2013, BlazeMeter was named one of the top testing tools by Dr. Dobbs 'Jolt Awards: The Best Testing Tools.'[13]

The company was acquired by CA Technologies in September 2016.[14] In 2021, it was acquired by Perforce.[15]

Products

BlazeMeter offers many continuous testing capabilities as part of its cloud testing platform, including:

• Performance testing
• Functional testing
• API testing & monitoring
• Mock services (also known as service virtualization)
• Test data creation & management  

References

1. Rosenberg, Dave (June 12, 2011). "BlazeMeter raises funds for cloud-based load testing". CNet. Retrieved November 20, 2015.
2. Vizard, Mike (October 7, 2021). "Perforce Charts Testing Course After BlazeMeter Acquisition". DevOps.com. Retrieved July 27, 2023.
3. Roizen, Bambi Francisco (December 6, 2011). "Cloud self-service start-up BlazeMeter raises $1.2M". Vator.TV. Retrieved November 20, 2015.
4. Bridgwater, Adrian (May 31, 2012). "Development In Hope (and Fear) Of Viral Success:BlazeMeter extends its JMeter cloud tool to high-volume interactive Facebook apps". Dr. Dobbs. Retrieved November 20, 2015.
5. Asay, Matt (December 6, 2011). "Code-probing, not Angry Birds, will define cloud's success". The Register. Retrieved November 20, 2015.
6. Rao, Raja (June 14, 2012). "Blazemeter Adds A Free Feather To OpenSource Apache JMeter". Tools Journal. Archived from the original on January 9, 2013. Retrieved November 20, 2015.
7. "BlazeMeter Releases New Drupal Module for Load and Performance Testing". APM Digest. August 10, 2012. Retrieved November 20, 2015.
8. Levental, Alla (August 26, 2021). "Vegeta Load Testing". BlazeMeter. Archived from the original on August 28, 2022. Retrieved August 27, 2022.
9. "Emerging Vendors 2012: Cloud Computing Vendors: BlazeMeter". CRN. August 31, 2012.
10. "BlazeMeter Named One of the 25 Coolest Emerging Vendors by CRN and UBM Channel". CRN. August 28, 2012.
11. Sztulwark, Daniela (August 6, 2012). "BlazeMeter and Acquia: The Yin and Yang of Drupal Performance". Acquia. Archived from the original on November 21, 2015. Retrieved November 20, 2015.
12. "PFLB Platform - testing platform support". platform.pflb.us. Retrieved July 27, 2023.
13. "Jolt Awards: The Best Testing Tools: BlazeMeter". Dr. Dobbs. May 21, 2013. Retrieved November 20, 2015.
14. Alon Girmonsky (September 20, 2016). "BlazeMeter Will Join Enterprise Software Leader CA Technologies". Company blog. Retrieved October 7, 2016.
15. "SD Times news digest: Perforce completes acquisition of BlazeMeter; OctoML raises $85 million in Series C funding; Snyk to acquire CloudSkiff". SD Times. November 1, 2021. Retrieved December 13, 2021.