AppDynamics acquires BugBuster

On Friday the BugBuster team announced in a blogpost that the company has been acquired by AppDynamics. The product of Bugbuster will continue to be available. Financial terms were not disclosed.

AppDynamics delivers real-time access to nearly every aspect of your business and operational performance, so you can anticipate problems, resolve them automatically, and make smarter, more certain business decisions. BugBuster customers will have the opportunity to benefit from the powerful analytics and intelligence that are available through AppDynamics products. At the same time, AppDynamics has the opportunity to leverage the knowledge of BugBuster’s founders and the innovative features and technology of the BugBuster product.

The BugBuster Web Testing platform allows Web professionals to create comprehensive automated test plans in minutes and find out where and when a web application could break. Hence increasing the overall application quality and customer satisfaction.

The start-up was founded in 2011 by Olivier Crameri (CEO), Renault John Lecoultre (CTO) and Professor Willy Zwaenepoel (Chief Scientist) in Lausanne. It is a spinoff of the Operating Systems Laboratory at EPFL.

Investors of BugBuster include business angels from several business angel clubs (BAS, Go Beyond) and institutional investors (Polytech Ventures, Hasler Foundation).

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