Agilent Technologies opened two new offices in Vietnam, in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. This comes even as the company announced a 2% cut in its global workforce (about 450 employees) earlier this month.
In Hanoi, a new repair and calibration center for electronic test instruments will serve the company’s customers in areas including government, defense, education and manufacturing. In Ho Chi Minh City, Agilent is opening a technology demo center for bio-analytical instruments used by scientists and researchers, focused mainly on serving the life sciences and chemical analysis industries.
Agilent also warned recently that its name is being used in bogus job ads on web sites such as Craiglist, LinkedIn and Indeed.com, and said that would-be job seekers should double-check the job listings with those on the corporate web site and make sure e-mails are legitimate (@agilent.com, not @agilents.com) to ensure authenticity.
Ascom Network Testing announced that Vodafone Turkey has chosen the company for comparison quality of service testing of 2G and 3G networks in Turkey, so that the carrier can compare the quality of voice, data and video calls on its network with its competitors. The testing will rely on Ascom’s TEMS automatic probes to collect data on networks’ service quality.
Much of the week’s news was in applications testing.
Mobile Labs and Northway Solutions Group announced a partnership for mobile app testing. Northway, which does consulting related to Hewlett-Packard’s IT Performance products, will resell Mobile Labs’ automated app testing solutions.
Northway’s CEO Scott Moore says, “There’s no question that mobility continues to dominate in today’s enterprise. Employees’ growing demand for and reliance on enterprise apps is unprecedented, and this puts added pressure on QA departments to deliver quality apps as quickly as possible. Our customers face a challenge trying to test mobile apps while also managing the chaos of rapidly changing devices and mobile operating systems. By adding Trust and deviceConnect into our portfolio, we have an even greater opportunity to support our customers as they embrace mobility and tackle the challenges that can come along with it. By partnering with Mobile Labs, we can help bring order to the mobile chaos our customers have to address.”
Android app testing company Test Fairy announced its new app test platform for small to large Android app developers. Test Fairy provides video of what testing was performed with detailed device operations metrics, so that developers know exactly what was tested rather than relying on social media-based testing or paid testing which may not provide the same level of insight. Test Fairy’s platform is free for users, although the company plans to add premium paid features later this year.
Meanwhile, San Francisco-based mobile app testing and debugging company Appurify raised $4.5 million in series A venture funding, led by Google Ventures. The new company, founded last year, has a total of $6.25 million in funding and focuses on offering developers cloud-based automated testing of applications across farms of cellular phones and tablets on multiple carrier networks.
“Almost every customer we’ve spoken to has been looking to move away from manual testing toward continuous automated testing on real devices. Appurify’s technology makes this easy, and addressing this market need has led to success in raising two rounds of funding in less than a year, building a top-notch engineering team, and doubling our enterprise revenue month after month,” said Jay Srinivasan, Appurify’s CEO and co-founder.
