Green Hat (software company)
| Industry | Computer software, Software testing |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1997 |
| Headquarters | London, United Kingdom and Claymont, Delaware |
Key people | Peter Cole, John Chewter, Carl Boddy |
| Products | GH Tester, GH VIE, GH Viewer |
| Website | www.greenhatworld.com |
Green Hat is an enterprise software company based in London, United Kingdom and Claymont, Delaware. Green Hat's product suite is intended for use by software development teams, especially those involved in service-oriented architecture (SOA), business process management (BPM), and cloud computing. Green Hat became an IBM company in 2012.
History
Company founder Peter Cole was operating a software consulting company when he invented a kernel for automating the testing of middleware systems in 2001. The kernel was refined and extended and initially released as RV Tester, in recognition of its rich support for TIBCO technologies.
The product was given a major overhaul in 2005 and renamed to GH Tester, recognizing its focus on testing the disparate technologies that make up distributed, Internet-based enterprise applications.
On January 4, 2012, IBM announced that it would acquire Green Hat for an undisclosed sum.[1] One week later, IBM announced that the acquisition had been completed.[2]
Products
The GH suite includes the following products:
- GH VIE: A service virtualization solution for creating models of unavailable components during the software development and testing phases, such as services, databases or business partners.
- GH Tester: Provides an automated testing tool for distributed technologies such as SOA, BPM and other middleware.
- GH Tracker: Provides an blackbox flight recorder for your Enterprise. Record, Search, Replay messages.
- GH Viewer: A dashboard for viewing the health of distributed systems in production.
References
- ↑ Kanaracus,Chris (January 4, 2012). "IBM acquires software testing vendor Green Hat". IDG News Service.
- ↑ "IBM Closes on Acquisition of Green Hat". IBM. January 11, 2012.