Status changes
10 listed tools are shut down, 25 are acquired and 8 are renamed. The timeline below has 67 dated events with sources. A shut-down tool stays listed with its date and alternatives.
Newest first. A tool owned by a private-equity or holding company stays “Active”, and the event is still recorded. A product rename is a status only within 24 months of verification. See the methodology. As of .
Tools not active
| Tool | Status | Category | Status note |
|---|---|---|---|
| BlazeMeter | Status: Acquired | Performance testing with AI | Perforce announced on November 1, 2021 that it completed the acquisition of the BlazeMeter Continuous Testing platform from Broadcom; the product continues as Perforce BlazeMeter. |
| Bugzy | Status: Acquired | Agentic end-to-end testing | Bugzy homepage states "Bugzy is now part of Felan. Please continue at felan.ai for current plans and access." Felan describes Bugzy as "Felan's QA agent". No date or deal terms are given on either site. |
| Copado Robotic Testing | Status: Acquired | Agentic end-to-end testing | Copado announced a definitive agreement to acquire Qentinel, whose robotic testing platform became Copado Robotic Testing. (2021-06-29) |
| Digital.ai Testing | Status: Acquired | Mobile testing with AI | Digital.ai announced the acquisition of Experitest, whose continuous testing platform became Digital.ai Continuous Testing. (2020-06-16) |
| Eggplant Test | Status: Acquired | Agentic end-to-end testing | Keysight Technologies completed the acquisition of Eggplant from The Carlyle Group. (2020-06-25) |
| Grafana k6 | Status: Acquired | Performance testing with AI | Grafana Labs announced the acquisition of k6, the company behind the k6 open-source load testing tool. (2021-06-17) |
| Harness AI Test Automation | Status: Acquired | Natural-language test authoring | Reported by PitchBook: Harness acquired Relicx, the origin of Harness AI Test Automation, in August 2024; a Harness author page for Relicx co-founder Sushil Kumar states Relicx was acquired by Harness. (2024-08) |
| MOSTLY AI | Status: Acquired | Test data generation | Syntho announced the acquisition of the MOSTLY AI brand (trademark and related assets) on 9 June 2026; the brand continues as 'MOSTLY AI, powered by Syntho'. |
| Panaya | Status: Acquired | AI test management | Infosys announced on 16 February 2015 that it would acquire Panaya (USD 200 million enterprise value, expected to close before 31 March 2015); Panaya's company page names Infosys as its parent. The product continues under the Panaya name. |
| Pcloudy | Status: Acquired | Mobile testing with AI | Reported by Inc42: Smart Software Testing Solutions, the company behind OpKey, acquired the Bangalore-based mobile testing platform pCloudy. (2016-02) |
| Percy | Status: Acquired | Visual AI testing | BrowserStack announced the acquisition of Percy on July 9, 2020; Percy continues as a BrowserStack product. |
| Perfecto | Status: Acquired | Natural-language test authoring | Perforce Software finalized its acquisition of Perfecto; the product continues as Perforce Perfecto. (2018-12-03) |
| Perforce Delphix | Status: Acquired | Test data generation | Delphix was acquired by Perforce Software; Perforce announced completion of the acquisition on March 25, 2024. The product continues as Perforce Delphix. |
| QMetry Test Management | Status: Acquired | AI test management | SmartBear announced its acquisition of QMetry on December 3, 2024. QMetry Test Management continues to be sold under the SmartBear brand; qmetry.com redirects to smartbear.com. |
| Ranorex Studio | Status: Acquired | Test maintenance and self-healing | Ranorex joined the IDERA, Inc. family of companies on October 23, 2017. In January 2025 Idera grouped Ranorex with TestRail, Xray, Testmo, Kiuwan and PreEmptive under the Sembi brand. Ranorex Studio remains on sale; release 12.8.2 shipped on September 23, 2026. |
| Reflect | Status: Acquired | Natural-language test authoring | SmartBear announced the acquisition of Reflect on January 25, 2024; the product continues as SmartBear Reflect and reflect.run redirects to smartbear.com/product/reflect/. |
| Tabnine test agent | Status: Acquired | IDE and repo test agents | Acquired by Tricentis (announced 30 July 2026); Tricentis states it will integrate Tabnine's Enterprise Context Engine into the Tricentis Agentic Quality Engineering Platform. tabnine.com pages now redirect to tricentis.com; docs.tabnine.com remains online with releases through v6.6.3 (24 September 2026). |
| Testim | Status: Acquired | Agentic end-to-end testing | Acquired by Tricentis, announced 9 February 2022; the product continues as Tricentis Testim with docs on docs.tricentis.com. |
| Testmo | Status: Acquired | AI test management | Testmo is one of six brands in Sembi, the software quality portfolio Idera launched on 23 January 2025; Testmo continues to be sold as a product brand. The date Idera acquired Testmo was not found in the sources opened. |
| TestRail | Status: Acquired | AI test management | TestRail announced that Gurock Software, the maker of TestRail, had joined IDERA; the TestRail About page states Gurock now operates as part of Sembi, a subsidiary of Idera. (2016-06-28) |
| Tricentis NeoLoad | Status: Acquired | Performance testing with AI | Tricentis announced the acquisition of Neotys, the developer of NeoLoad; the product is now sold as Tricentis NeoLoad. (2021-03-30) |
| Tricentis qTest | Status: Acquired | AI test management | Tricentis and QASymphony, the developer of qTest, announced an agreement to merge under the Tricentis name. (2018-06-20) |
| Tricentis SeaLights | Status: Acquired | Results analysis and triage | Acquired by Tricentis (announced Jul. 18, 2024); sold as Tricentis SeaLights, sealights.io redirects to the Tricentis product page, and the documentation shows releases through August 2026. |
| Waldo | Status: Acquired | Mobile testing with AI | Tricentis announced the acquisition of Waldo on July 7, 2023 (press release datelined Austin, Texas). Waldo documentation is now hosted on docs.tricentis.com and waldo.com redirects to tricentis.com. |
| Xray | Status: Acquired | AI test management | Idera, Inc. announced the acquisition of Xblend Software, the provider of Xray and Xporter, on 4 May 2021. Xray is now presented as a Sembi product and remains available. |
| BaseRock AI | Status: Renamed | API testing with AI | Sapient.ai announced its rebranding to BaseRock.ai, and its product Sapient Unit Testing became BaseRock Unit Testing. (2024-10-30) |
| CloudBees Smart Tests | Status: Renamed | Results analysis and triage | CloudBees announced the acquisition of Launchable on August 7, 2024. |
| Mobilerun (formerly DroidRun) | Status: Renamed | Mobile testing with AI | DroidRun renamed to Mobilerun. The droidrun PyPI package is published as a compatibility shim stating that droidrun has been renamed to mobilerun, and the GitHub repository droidrun/droidrun redirects to droidrun/mobilerun. The product continues under the Mobilerun name (mobilerun 0.6.19 released 2026-09-10). |
| OpenText Functional Testing | Status: Renamed | Test maintenance and self-healing | OpenText announced with the CE 24.4 release that OpenText UFT One is now OpenText Functional Testing. (2024-11) |
| OpenText Performance Engineering (LoadRunner) | Status: Renamed | Performance testing with AI | OpenText announced with the CE 25.1 release that LoadRunner Professional is now OpenText Professional Performance Engineering, as part of renaming the LoadRunner product family. (2025-01) |
| Qodo | Status: Renamed | IDE and repo test agents | CodiumAI (Codium) renamed to Qodo; vendor announcement published 2024-09-30. The product continues under the Qodo name. |
| QualityAI | Status: Renamed | Managed AI QA services | A vendor announcement dated 17 June 2026 states that Qualitest rebranded to QualityAI. qualitestgroup.com redirects (301) to quality-ai.com. |
| Zephyr | Status: Renamed | AI test management | SmartBear announced a unified test management and automation platform for Jira named Zephyr at Atlassian Team '25, succeeding the Zephyr Scale and Zephyr Squad names. (2025-04-03) |
| AutonomIQ | Status: Shut down | Natural-language test authoring | Sauce Labs announced a definitive agreement to acquire AutonomIQ on 2 February 2021; the product continued as Sauce Labs Low Code, which Sauce Labs documentation states reached End of Life on 1 September 2025, recommending migration to Sauce Labs AI Test Authoring. |
| Bugster | Status: Shut down | Agentic end-to-end testing | Bugster's letter to users, dated 2026-05-22, states: "We've decided to close Bugster. The product is winding down, and the company will follow shortly after." No service end date is given. On 2026-09-24 the homepage, pricing page and sign-up links were still online. |
| DogQ | Status: Shut down | Agentic end-to-end testing | Search-index copy of the vendor homepage states DogQ is winding down, with new sign-ups closed and the platform fully closing on September 1, 2026; on 2026-09-24 dogq.io, its pricing, blog and login pages returned HTTP 503 on two attempts, while docs.dogq.io remained online. |
| EarlyAI | Status: Shut down | Unit test generation | Vendor docs list Early Catch for IDE (the EarlyAI unit-test extension) as a retired product whose documentation is archived and no longer maintained; the company's current product is Regression Guard. No retirement date is published. The VS Code Marketplace listing (Early-AI.EarlyAI, version 1.4.8) was still published on 2026-09-24. |
| Octomind | Status: Shut down | Agentic end-to-end testing | Vendor farewell letter: "We've decided to close Octomind. The company will wind down by the end of June, and our product will be turned off at the end of May." (2026). octomind.dev no longer resolves as of 2026-09-24; vendor GitHub repositories are archived. |
| Operative (web-eval-agent) | Status: Shut down | MCP servers for testing | The web-eval-agent README states 'PROJECT HAS BEEN SUNSET' and 'This project has been discontinued. We're building something new at withrefresh.com'; the GitHub repository was archived by the owner on 2026-06-27. |
| Pythagora (test generator) | Status: Shut down | Unit test generation | The repository README opens with "This repo is deprecated - we're working on GPT Pilot". The pythagora.ai domain now redirects (301) to pazi.ai, a business-agents product, and the VS Code extension listing linked from the README returns a not-found page. |
| TestPilot | Status: Shut down | Unit test generation | Repository archived by the owner on Feb 3, 2025 and read-only; the README says this version has been archived and refers to the new version at https://github.com/neu-se/testpilot2 (TestPilot 2, an adaptation for chat models). |
| Tusk | Status: Shut down | Unit test generation | Vendor announcement dated June 11, 2026: "we are sunsetting the Tusk product on Jun 10, 2026. Customer support will continue for a month after". The Tusk GitHub App is being removed; the vendor recommends Cognition's Devin in its place. |
| wacat | Status: Shut down | Autonomous exploration | The GitHub repository states it was archived by the owner on Aug 27, 2026 and is now read-only. The README's last listed release is 1.5.0 (January 28, 2025); current version stated as 1.5.4. |
Timeline
2026
Event: Shut down
DogQ: A search-index copy of the DogQ homepage states that DogQ is winding down, new sign-ups are closed and the platform fully closes on September 1, 2026; dogq.io returned HTTP 503 on 2026-09-24.
Event: Shut down
wacat: The wacat GitHub repository was archived by its owner on 27 August 2026 and is read-only.
Event: Acquired
Tabnine test agent: Tricentis announced the acquisition of Tabnine and stated it will integrate Tabnine's Enterprise Context Engine into its Agentic Quality Engineering Platform; tabnine.com now redirects to tricentis.com.
Event: Renamed
Develocity Predictive Test Selection: The vendor Gradle Technologies renamed itself Develocity after its product, with unchanged ownership; the product name was unchanged.
Event: Shut down
Operative (web-eval-agent): The web-eval-agent README states the project has been sunset and discontinued, and the owner archived the GitHub repository on 2026-06-27.
Event: Renamed
QualityAI: Qualitest announced its rebrand to QualityAI; qualitestgroup.com redirects to quality-ai.com.
Event: Shut down
Tusk: Tusk announced on 11 June 2026 that it sunset the Tusk product on 10 June 2026, with customer support continuing for one month.
Event: Acquired
MOSTLY AI: Syntho announced the acquisition of the MOSTLY AI trademark and related assets; the brand continues as MOSTLY AI, powered by Syntho.
Event: Renamed
Mobilerun (formerly DroidRun): DroidRun was renamed Mobilerun; droidrun 0.6.0, published on PyPI on 2026-05-27, is a compatibility shim stating that droidrun has been renamed to mobilerun.
Event: Shut down
Bugster: Bugster's letter to users, dated 2026-05-22, states that it has decided to close Bugster, that the product is winding down, and that the company will follow shortly after. No service end date is given.
Event: Shut down
Octomind: Octomind stated in a farewell letter that it would close, turn the product off at the end of May 2026 and wind the company down by the end of June 2026.
Event: Renamed
Develocity Predictive Test Selection: The vendor Gradle, Inc. announced it would present itself commercially as Gradle Technologies; the product name Develocity was unchanged.
Event: Renamed
KaneAI: The vendor LambdaTest renamed itself TestMu AI; the product name KaneAI was unchanged.
2025
Event: Shut down
AutonomIQ: Sauce Labs documentation states that Sauce Labs Low Code, the product that continued AutonomIQ, reached End of Life on 1 September 2025 and recommends migrating to Sauce Labs AI Test Authoring.
Event: Renamed
Zephyr: SmartBear announced a unified test management and automation platform for Jira named Zephyr at Atlassian Team '25, succeeding the Zephyr Scale and Zephyr Squad names.
Event: Launched
UiPath Test Cloud: UiPath announced the launch of UiPath Test Cloud; UiPath docs describe Test Cloud as extending the capabilities of UiPath Test Suite, with new application-testing features released only in Test Cloud.
Event: Shut down
TestPilot: GitHub Next archived the TestPilot repository on 3 February 2025, making it read-only; the README points to TestPilot2 at neu-se/testpilot2 as the newer version.
Event: Acquired
Testmo: Idera announced Sembi, a software quality portfolio that includes Testmo alongside TestRail, Xray, Ranorex, Kiuwan and PreEmptive; the announcement does not give the date Idera acquired Testmo.
Event: Renamed
OpenText Performance Engineering (LoadRunner): OpenText announced with the CE 25.1 release that LoadRunner Professional is now OpenText Professional Performance Engineering, as part of renaming the LoadRunner product family.
2024
Event: Acquired
QMetry Test Management: SmartBear announced its acquisition of QMetry; QMetry Test Management is sold under the SmartBear brand.
Event: Renamed
OpenText Functional Testing: OpenText announced with the CE 24.4 release that OpenText UFT One is now OpenText Functional Testing.
Event: Renamed
BaseRock AI: Sapient.ai announced its rebranding to BaseRock.ai, and its product Sapient Unit Testing became BaseRock Unit Testing.
Event: Renamed
Qodo: CodiumAI announced its new name, Qodo; the product continues under the Qodo name.
Event: Acquired
CloudBees Smart Tests: CloudBees announced the acquisition of Launchable.
Event: Acquired
Harness AI Test Automation: Reported by PitchBook: Harness acquired Relicx, the origin of Harness AI Test Automation, in August 2024; a Harness author page for Relicx co-founder Sushil Kumar states Relicx was acquired by Harness.
Event: Pivot
Replay.io: Replay announced it would discontinue Replay Test Suites on August 31 to focus on the intersection of replayability and AI; the product is now offered as Replay QA.
Event: Acquired
Tricentis SeaLights: Tricentis announced the acquisition of SeaLights; the product is sold as Tricentis SeaLights and sealights.io redirects to the Tricentis product page.
Event: Acquired
HeadSpin: Reported by TechCrunch: Canadian private equity firm PartnerOne acquired HeadSpin.
Event: Renamed
Jetify TestPilot: The vendor jetpack.io renamed itself Jetify and moved its website to jetify.com.
Event: Acquired
Perforce Delphix: Perforce announced completion of its acquisition of Delphix; the product continues as Perforce Delphix.
Event: Shut down
Pythagora (test generator): A README commit marked the Pythagora test generator repository as deprecated, stating the team is working on GPT Pilot.
Event: Acquired
Reflect: SmartBear announced the acquisition of Reflect; the product continues as SmartBear Reflect.
2023
Event: Renamed
Develocity Predictive Test Selection: Gradle Inc. renamed its product Gradle Enterprise to Develocity.
Event: Acquired
Waldo: Tricentis announced the acquisition of Waldo; Waldo documentation is now hosted on docs.tricentis.com and waldo.com redirects to tricentis.com.
Event: Acquired
OpenText Functional Testing: OpenText closed its acquisition of Micro Focus International plc, the owner of UFT One.
Event: Acquired
OpenText Performance Engineering (LoadRunner): OpenText closed its acquisition of Micro Focus International plc, the owner of LoadRunner.
2022
2021
Event: Acquired
BlazeMeter: Perforce announced that it completed the acquisition of the BlazeMeter continuous testing platform from Broadcom.
Event: Acquired
Copado Robotic Testing: Copado announced a definitive agreement to acquire Qentinel, whose robotic testing platform became Copado Robotic Testing.
Event: Acquired
Grafana k6: Grafana Labs announced the acquisition of k6, the company behind the k6 open-source load testing tool.
Event: Acquired
Xray: Idera, Inc. announced the acquisition of Xblend Software, the provider of Xray and Xporter; Xray is now presented as a Sembi product.
Event: Acquired
Tricentis NeoLoad: Tricentis announced the acquisition of Neotys, the developer of NeoLoad; the product is now sold as Tricentis NeoLoad.
Event: Renamed
Specmatic: The qontract npm package README, in the release published on 2021-03-30, states that Qontract is renamed to Specmatic and that all new development moves to Specmatic.
Event: Acquired
AutonomIQ: Sauce Labs announced a definitive agreement to acquire AutonomIQ, a scriptless test automation provider.
2020
Event: Renamed
Zephyr: The Server/Data Center release notes for version 8.0, dated 18 November 2020, state that TM4J was renamed and moved into the Zephyr product family.
Event: Renamed
ReadyAPI: SmartBear renamed SoapUI Pro to ReadyAPI Test, LoadUI Pro to ReadyAPI Performance and ServiceV Pro to ReadyAPI Virtualization under the ReadyAPI brand.
Event: Acquired
Siteimprove: Siteimprove announced that Nordic Capital would become its new majority owner, with the founder remaining CEO.
Event: Acquired
Percy: BrowserStack announced the acquisition of Percy; Percy continues as a BrowserStack product.
Event: Acquired
Eggplant Test: Keysight Technologies completed the acquisition of Eggplant from The Carlyle Group.
Event: Acquired
Digital.ai Testing: Digital.ai announced the acquisition of Experitest, whose continuous testing platform became Digital.ai Continuous Testing.
Event: Acquired
Zephyr: SmartBear announced the acquisition of Test Management for Jira (TM4J) from Adaptavist; this Jira app is the product now sold as Zephyr.
2019
Event: Acquired
Worksoft: Marlin Equity Partners announced it completed the acquisition of Worksoft.
2018
Event: Acquired
Perfecto: Perforce Software finalized its acquisition of Perfecto; the product continues as Perforce Perfecto.
Event: Acquired
BlazeMeter: Broadcom completed its acquisition of CA Technologies, the owner of BlazeMeter, and CA became a wholly owned subsidiary of Broadcom.
Event: Acquired
Tricentis qTest: Tricentis and QASymphony, the developer of qTest, announced an agreement to merge under the Tricentis name.
Event: Renamed
Eggplant Test: Reported by Bdaily and DEVOPSdigest: Testplant acquired NCC Group's Web Performance division and renamed the combined company Eggplant, after its product suite.
2017
Event: Acquired
Ranorex Studio: Ranorex joined the IDERA, Inc. family of companies; Ranorex Studio remains on sale.
Event: Acquired
OpenText Functional Testing: Micro Focus completed its merger with the HPE Software business, which included UFT.
Event: Acquired
OpenText Performance Engineering (LoadRunner): Micro Focus completed its merger with the HPE Software business, which included LoadRunner.
Event: Acquired
Applause: Applause announced a definitive agreement to be acquired by Vista Equity Partners, with the company to continue operating independently.
Event: Acquired
ReadyAPI: Francisco Partners announced it acquired a majority stake in SmartBear Software, the vendor of ReadyAPI, from lead investor Insight Venture Partners. The announcement does not name ReadyAPI; the product continues under the SmartBear brand.
2016
Event: Acquired
BlazeMeter: CA Technologies announced an agreement to acquire BlazeMeter.
Event: Acquired
TestRail: TestRail announced that Gurock Software, the maker of TestRail, had joined IDERA; the TestRail About page states Gurock now operates as part of Sembi, a subsidiary of Idera.
Event: Acquired
Pcloudy: Reported by Inc42: Smart Software Testing Solutions, the company behind OpKey, acquired the Bangalore-based mobile testing platform pCloudy.
2015
Event: Acquired
Panaya: Infosys announced it would acquire Panaya; the product continues under the Panaya name.
2014
Event: Renamed
Applause: uTest changed its company name to Applause and announced the acquisition of the German crowdtesting firm Testhub.
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