SOASTA

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| name = SOASTA Inc.

| logo = File:SOASTA Logo as appears on corporate website.png

| type = Subsidiary

| industry = Software Testing

| founder = Ken Gardner (Executive Chairman)

| location_city = Mountain View, CA

| location_country = United States of America

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| key_people = Tom Lounibos (CEO)

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| owner = Akamai Technologies

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SOASTA, Inc. is an American subsidiary of Akamai Technologies{{Cite news|url=https://www.akamai.com/uk/en/about/news/press/2017-press/akamai-completes-acquisition-of-soasta.jsp|title=Akamai Completes Acquisition of SOASTA {{!}} Akamai|access-date=2018-01-11|language=en-GB}} that provides services to test websites and web applications.

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It is a provider of cloud-based testing services, and created a browser-based website testing product.

{{cite press release

|url=http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/soasta-to-provide-industrys-first-browser-based-web-ui--ajax-testing-solution-51674767.html

|title=SOASTA to Provide Industry's First Browser-Based Web UI / Ajax Testing Solution

|publisher=PR Newswire

|accessdate=2013-01-17

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Website tests include load testing, software performance testing, functional testing and user interface testing. SOASTA provides cloud website testing with its product CloudTest, which simulates thousands of users visiting a website simultaneously

{{cite web

|url=http://www.soasta.com/press-releases/soasta-leverages-the-cloud-to-test-1000000-users-on-myspace/

|title=SOASTA Leverages the Cloud to Test 1,000,000 Users on MySpace

|date=November 17, 2009

|accessdate=2013-01-17

}}

using the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service.

{{cite web

|url=http://www.computerzeitung.de/articles/soasta_bringt_das_webtesting_in_die_cloud:/2008028/31570833_ha_CZ.html?thes=&tp=/themen/softwareentwicklung/

|title=Soasta bringt das Webtesting in die Cloud

|publisher=Computer Zeitung

|accessdate=2009-02-12

|last=Barnitzke

|first=Armin

|date=July 2008}}{{Dead link|date=November 2009}}

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|url-status=dead

|archive-date=May 24, 2011

|title=Soasta Is First To Bring Testing to the Cloud

|publisher=Gartner

|accessdate=2009-02-12

|last=Murphy

|first=Thomas

|date=30 June 2008

}}

SOASTA allows customers to use predefined tests or create customized tests to automatically test their web applications.

{{cite web

|url=http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-29973378_ITM

|title=Orchestrate SOA app tests

|publisher=Computerworld

|accessdate=2009-02-12

|last=Hall

|first=Mark

|date=26 February 2007

}}

The SOASTA platform further enables digital businesses to gain continuous performance insight into real user experiences on mobile and web devices in real time and at scale, using real user monitoring technology coupled with its mPulse product. SOASTA serves mobile application testing needs through its product TouchTest, which provides functional mobile app testing automation for multitouch, gesture-based mobile applications.{{Citation needed|date=November 2022}}