green hat software limited 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 greenhat.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 . contents 1 history 2 products 3 references 4 external links history edit 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 edit 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 edit 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 . external links edit green hat home page retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title green hat software company & oldid 739368948 categories development software companiessoftware companies based in londonsoftware testing toolsload testing toolscompanies established in 1997 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 14 september 2016 at 08 16 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view