API Fortress
API Fortress automates the testing of accuracy, performance, and load of your APIs Learn why companies are switching at apifortresscom.
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API Fortress provided a continuous testing platform for Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), designed for agile and DevOps teams. The company was founded in 2013 by Patrick Poulin and Simone Pezzano. The idea originated from their own professional experiences; Poulin, then an API Evangelist at Getty Images, and Pezzano, who was building a platform to convert websites into APIs, recognized the absence of a robust tool to effectively test and monitor APIs. This firsthand frustration with the lack of adequate tooling led to the creation of API Fortress.
The firm's core offering was a platform that enabled developers and quality assurance teams to automate the testing of APIs throughout their entire lifecycle. This included functional and load testing, monitoring, and validating APIs from the design phase through to live production. The platform was engineered to integrate with existing CI/CD pipelines and version control systems, thereby streamlining workflows for its clients, which included enterprises in sectors like financial services, retail, and media. A key feature was its codeless test generation capability, allowing non-developers to create and manage complex tests through a visual composer. Revenue was generated through tiered subscription plans for both its cloud-based and on-premise solutions.
A significant milestone for the company occurred on December 10, 2020, when it was acquired by Sauce Labs, a prominent provider of continuous testing solutions. The acquisition was a strategic move by Sauce Labs to integrate API testing capabilities into its existing suite of functional UI testing, front-end performance testing, and visual end-to-end testing tools. Following the acquisition, the API Fortress platform became known as Sauce Labs API Testing, and its team, including co-founder Patrick Poulin, joined Sauce Labs to continue developing the product.
Keywords: API testing, continuous testing, DevOps, quality assurance, test automation, functional testing, load testing, API monitoring, Sauce Labs, CI/CD integration