Runscope Explained

Runscope is a SaaS-based company that sells software for API performance testing, monitoring and debugging. Runscope is based in San Francisco, California.

General

Runscope provides cloud-based and hybrid on-premises software that allows businesses to monitor, test, and debug web-service APIs. Runscope API tests can be used to test against services available in the public cloud, running on a private network behind a firewall, or running on a local development environment.

Integrations

Runscope integrates with continuous integration and deployment platforms, such as Jenkins,^[1] Amazon CodePipeline,^[2] CircleCI,^[3] and TeamCity. Runscope’s API methods for executing tests and checking on test status allow it to be integrated with other CI/CD tools and platforms as well.^[4]

Runscope supports a variety of notification options for sending test completion and failure results. Runscope integrates with team communication platforms Slack,^[5] HipChat and Flowdock. Runscope also integrates with incident management systems AlertOps, PagerDuty, VictorOps, OpsGenie and StatusPage.io.

Runscope also integrates with third-party software analytics platforms, including New Relic Insights, Keen IO and Datadog.

History

Runscope was founded in 2013 by John Sheehan and Frank Stratton.^[6]

Runscope has raised approximately $7.1 million in venture capital funding. Runscope received its first round of seed funding in May 2013 for the amount of $1.1 million from Andreessen Horowitz, True Ventures, Lerer Hippeau Ventures, Jon Dahl, Nat Friedman, David Cohen, and Ullas Naik. Runscope’s Series A round of funding was led by General Catalyst Partners.^[7]

In September 2017, CA Technologies acquired Runscope.^{[8] [9]} CA Technologies also owns BlazeMeter,^[10] a load-testing platform for software. In July 2019, two platforms were merged into one under Blazemeter brand.^[11]

In September 2021, Broadcom, which acquired CA Technologies in 2018, announced that it would sell BlazeMeter to Perforce.^[12] Perforce announced that it had completed the acquisition process on November 1, 2021.^[13]

Acquisitions

In December 2014, Runscope acquired Ghost Inspector, a company that provides cloud-based UI and browser testing for websites and web applications.^[14]

Notes and References

1. Web site: jenkinsci/runscope-plugin. GitHub. 29 January 2021. 2023-11-18. en.
2. Web site: Product Integrations. Amazon Web Services, Inc.. 2023-11-18. en.
3. Web site: CircleCI Documentation: Notifications. 15 March 2017. en.
4. Web site: Build, CI, Deployment Integrations · Docs · Runscope API Performance Monitoring · Runscope. Runscope Inc.. runscope.com. en.
5. Web site: Khan. Sieeka. 2021-03-24. Slack Launches Slack Connect that Lets Users Direct Message Anyone Outside Their Workplace. 2021-04-05. Tech Times. en.
6. Web site: Runscope Lands $1.1M From True Ventures And Andreessen Horowitz For Tools That Address The Broken API Plague. 2021-04-05. TechCrunch. 22 May 2013. en-US.
7. Web site: API Testing Service Runscope Raises $6M Series A Round Led By General Catalyst, Launches Enterprise Tools. Frederic Lardinois. AOL. TechCrunch. 10 April 2014.
8. Web site: CA acquires Runscope to round out API testing and monitoring portfolio. 2017-09-28. SiliconANGLE. en-US. 2019-07-25.
9. Web site: CA Technologies acquires Runscope – What's Next for the API Economy?. 2021-04-05. SmartBear.com.
10. Web site: Runscope is joining BlazeMeter. 2019-07-25. Runscope Blog. en-US.
11. Web site: Runscope is joining BlazeMeter.
12. Web site: Perforce to Acquire BlazeMeter Continuous Testing Platform From Broadcom - Perforce Software. 2021-11-12. www.perforce.com. 30 September 2021 . en.
13. Software. Perforce. Perforce Completes BlazeMeter Acquisition. 2021-11-12. www.prnewswire.com. en.
14. Web site: Ghost Inspector Joins Runscope on Quest for Better Software. Runscope Blog.