Enterprise software delivery company CloudBees Inc. today announced it has acquired artificial intelligence-based software testing startup Launchable Inc. for an undisclosed price.

Founded in 2019, Launchable offers an AI Co-Pilot for test suite intelligence and optimization. The company’s service delivers short test runs, test triaging, test health insights and test failures analysis.

With a focus on removing friction from the development and testing loop to iterate and ship faster, Launchable says its technology helps reduce the time required to run test suites and allows developers to receive feedback more quickly. Predictive test selection, which analyzes recent code changes, allows it to select a subset of tests that are most likely to fail, minimizing unnecessary test executions.

Launchable enhances development efficiency by eliminating irrelevant test failures, identifying and prioritizing “flaky tests” and automating root-cause analysis of test failures. Using generative artificial intelligence, the company’s service provides concise error summaries and developers receive real-time notifications of test failures through integrations with tools such as GitHub and Slack. Additionally, comprehensive dashboards track ongoing issues across test sessions, allowing teams to monitor their test suites’ health effectively.

Notable Launchable customers include Sony Group Corp., Infosys Ltd., BMW Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft), Line Corp. and Delphix Corp.

Cloudbees plans to integrate Launchable’s AI Co-Pilot to slash dev-test interaction to accelerate shipping times.

Notably, the deal is described as a “homecoming” for Launchable co-founders Kohsuke Kawaguchi and Harpreet Singh, both of whom were long-time Cloudbees employees before launching Launchable five years ago.

“Bringing CloudBees and Launchable together represents two milestones for the field of software development,” said Chief Executive Anuj Kapur. “First, it brings the first AI-augmented Test Intelligence capability to any DevSecOps platform. Second, it marks the return of a true open-source visionary to CloudBees to continue the mission-oriented efforts around software-based digital transformation in enterprises.”

Bringing Launchable’s AI solution onto the CloudBees platform will offer developers faster dev-test iterations by using machine-learning-driven predictive test selection to reduce unnecessary tests and inefficient workflows, the company said. The upside is that teams can automatically test code changes, find and prioritize failures quickly and identify failing builds in a fraction of the time.

Additionally, AI-augmented testing brought into Cloudbees through the Launchable acquisition will enhance visibility and focus to effectively manage and analyze test failures. Doing so, the companies said, means improved overall productivity and ensures that teams can address critical issues swiftly and efficiently.

Although the price of the acquisition was not disclosed, coming into the deal, Launchable had raised $12.7 million over two rounds, according to Tracxn. Investors in the company include 645 Ventures Management, Battery Ventures LP, Unusual Ventures LP and GoingVC.

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