2008 headquarters london uk congleton uk boulder us san francisco us philadelphia us hong kong apac area served worldwide website testplant.com testplant is an international software business that develops the eggplant range of software test automation tools addressing different types of testing from functional to load and performance . their main product eggplant functional is capable of automating tasks on any operating system it is technology agnostic and is non invasive . headquartered in london testplant has development centers in the us and the uk with sales and support centers in the us the uk germany and asia as well as an extensive network of business partners . together with venture capital from seraphim capital it made its first acquisition that of redstone software then a subsidiary of gresham computing creators of a software testing platform called eggplant . 1 testplant s products are used in over 30 countries by more than 350 enterprise customers . these customers span across sectors from financial services automotive and healthcare and life sciences to media and entertainment retail and defense and aerospace . testplant teamed up with uk trade and investment ukti to provide eggplant software quality tools to their defense and security wing named dso . 2 in 2010 testplant recorded a turnover of 2.5 million with a sales growth rate of 104 percent . the successful foray into china with ukti support has led the company to expand into other developing markets such as india . gateway to global growth led by ukti allowed testplant to acquire more experienced exporters for their service towards china . 3 in 2011 their software testing tool eggplant received a patent for functionality towards performing tests on a system from a remote computer through the use of virtual network computing vnc . 4 by 2013 testplant bought the facilita forecast performance testing tool this was further developed and renamed to eggplant performance . 5 references edit about test plant test plant company about us september 06 2011 . testplant.com . retrieved 19 september 2011 . london tech company granted us patent for new interface tool . the enstitution of engineering and technology . the enstitution of engineering and technology . retrieved 10 august 2015 . uk trade and investment london technology company granted us patent for groundbreaking new interface tool april 15 2011 . ukti.gov.uk . 15 april 2011 . retrieved 19 september 2011 . amirg . testing excellence software test industry first testplant granted us patent for eggplant january 26 2011 . testingexcellence.com . retrieved 19 september 2011 . news forecast is good for test unification . professional tester . 29 april 2013 . retrieved 10 march 2014 . external links edit official website newswire press release uk trade and investment news retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title testplant & oldid 734532258 categories software testingcompanies based in londoncompanies established in 20082008 establishments in englandhidden categories use dmy dates from august 2015use british english from march 2014pages using infobox company with unsupported parameters 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 15 august 2016 at 00 06 . 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