With mobile and cloud systems are the driving force behind many great innovations today it unsurprising that they’re taking the lead in software development. The adoption of mobile strategies in a company or even the establishment of a centralized area for the creation and monitoring of mobile projects is now critical to an organization’s competitiveness.

But the fact that over 94% of IT equipment in all vertical sectors continue to be neglected for mobile functionality and performance. SOASTA, a leader in mobile testing and cloud, addresses top five mobile and web testing challenges in the industry today: development slows without direct access and continuous testing on current devices using an expanding array of touch gestures; time-to-market delays incurred by extensive and error-prone testing manual; unknown device app impact of current CPU, network, battery performance; and ignoring the threat of exponential mobile traffic spikes and inexperienced testers who miss critical areas of mobile scale and functionality.

Now, Gartner has named SOASTA as the leader of Integrated Software Quality Suites in Gartner’s 2013 Magic Quadrant. Gartner has recognized SOASTA leadership in the testing market with proven success in hundreds of enterprises with strong solutions for precision mobile test automation, Real User Monitoring (RUM), and cloud-based web performance testing.

“SOASTA has been expanding its presence globally and expanding its partnerships, and has continued to deliver innovation in a consistent fashion,” the report noted. “The combination of SOASTA’s strong real-time analytics with a codeless automation environment and RUM solution provides a good foundation for driving improved test effectiveness.”

SOASTA platform delivers TouchTest software that focuses on speed in all aspects of test automation. It also offers TouchTest for functional mobile test automation using real devices. SOASTA uses the benefits of cloud computing to provide a flexible environment that requires no hardware investment for its clients. The interactive dashboard of SOASTA displays a real-time consolidated view of performance indicators that you choose to monitor. During the test, terabytes of data can be collected from the monitoring systems.

The company’s tools are well suited to modern applications and the shift to mobile; these are not tools for traditional client/server and other legacy technologies in much the same way that legacy-centered tools are not well suited to a modern application stack and development approach, the report says.

The whole software development lifecycle has undergone a remarkable acceleration driven by its need for speed, dynamism and flexibility of the business. Software testing is an integral part of handoff between IT operations and development. This acceleration must not become synonymous with poor quality and inefficiency, because the damage would be fatal for both the IT department and the business organization itself. Successful Agile teams using DevOps practices with full integrate testing aimed at optimizing the efficiency of the iterative processes and automation of all those repetitive tasks that consume time.