Agitar Awards

March 2008: Agitar's JUnit Factory is awarded the Jolt Productivity Award by Dr. Dobb's Journal in the Testing Tools category. This is the fourth year in a row that Agitar’s products have won a Jolt award – the "Oscars" of the software development tools industry.

June 2007: Agitar is named to the annual SD Times 100 for the third consecutive year. Recognizing leaders and innovators in the software development industry, the 2007 SD Times 100 named Agitar a winner in the Test and Quality Assurance (QA) category.

May 2007: Red Herring named Agitar Software a winner of the Red Herring 100 Spring 2007. Agitar was the only software quality and testing vendor recognized as one of the “most promising” 100 companies in North America driving the future of technology.

March 2007: AgitarOne was awarded the Jolt Award for Excellence in the testing tools category. This is the third year in a row that Agitar’s products have won a Jolt award – the "Oscars" of the software development tools industry.

July 2006: For the third year in a row, AlwaysOn selects Agitar as one of the Top 100 private companies for 2006. Agitar was handpicked by the AlwaysOn editorial panel based on a set of five criteria - technology innovation, market potential, customer adoption, media buzz and investor value creation.

June 2006: SD Times named Agitar a winner in the "Test, QA & Performance Management" category. The editors applauded new advances in Agitator that help developers find bugs that other tools can't identify as they write their code.

March 2006: Agitar's new Agitator 3.0 is the winner of the Jolt Productivity Award. As far as we know, no other development tool has won the Jolt two years in a row.

January 2006: Agitar's new Agitator 3.0 wins "Best Application Test Tool" in InfoWorld's 2006 Technology of the Year awards.

2005: Gartner features Agitar in their list, "Cool Vendors in Application Development" for 2005. Agitar was the only company to receive this recognition in the quality engineering category.

October 2005: Agitar became the first software development tool to ever receive a Technology Innovation Award from the Wall Street Journal. The Wall Street Journal selected Agitator as the winner of the 2005 Technology Innovation Award in the category Software. The judges said: "Software writers typically have to scour for buggy code by poring over thousands of lines of code -- often after flaws show up while users are running the program. Agitator automatically puts software through a battery of stress tests; it also can examine partial programs by simulating the whole software system. Though Agitator works only with programs written in the Java programming language, the judges said it is an important advance in making error-free code writing more productive."

July 2005: For the second year in a row, AlwaysOn selects Agitar as one of the Top 100 private companies for 2005. "The AO100 winners demonstrate leadership among their peers in at least two areas: market traction measured by revenue or customer growth, and game-changing approaches and technologies that are likely to disrupt existing markets and entrenched players. The top private companies of the second generation of the Internet are now coming into focus," notes AlwaysOn Editor, Tony Perkins.

May 2005: SDTimes selected Agitar Software in the category Test & Performance for its annual 100-list. The companies and organizations on this list are those that SDTimes believes have demonstrated the greatest amount of leadership, either through market clout or meaningful technological innovation. About Agitar SDTimes says: "Shaken and Stirred: An innovative approach to exercising code raises the bar on Java application quality. Test automation, clever tools, and pushing testing back into the coding process are all winners."

April 2005: InfoWorld selected Agitar Founder and CTO Alberto Savoia for their InfoWorld CTO 25 Awards, honoring CTOs whose vision has helped guide their companies and the IT industry. The judges said about Alberto: "The former Google executive is on a mission to make unit testing the industry default."

March 2005: Software Development selected Agitator as the winner of its annual Jolt Award in the category Automated Test Tools. The judges wrote: "Unlike most other automated test tools, Agitator is easy to use - simply point it at your code, a method, class or complete project, and let it loose. The tool analyzes a program and selects data that it determines will effectively exercise the methods in the program. It then finds boundary conditions and data values that will exercise all conditions and branches, and it does it quickly. It generated and ran almost 1,600 tests on a class in less than 10 seconds."

February 2005: eWeek selected Agitator as Finalist for its 5th Annual Excellence Awards, stating: "Agitator and Agitar Management Dashboard are a powerful duo for Java code testing and development environments. Judges liked how Agitator intelligently exercises Java code and provides feedback to developers on code behaviors. Agitator also provides code standard checking to ensure problems will be found (and fixed) early."

July 2004: Agitar was named to the AlwaysOn 100, a list unveiling the top 100 winners honoring the best in innovation. The AO100 list showcases top innovative private companies demonstrating market traction and the ability to disrupt existing markets.

December 2004: The most innovative and effective products tested by InfoWorld during 2004 were chosen as "Technology of the Year" Award winners. Agitator was chosen for "Best Java Development Tool." InfoWorld Test Center reviewer Rick Grehan gave Agitator a score of "excellent" and stated: "None of the Java unit-test tools I've seen so far are quite as good as Agitar Software's Agitator."

June 2004: Agitar Software was named a prestigious Duke's Choice Award winner by Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy. The awards celebrate the "best in the business" from among all the cool projects in the world of Java technology, as judged by Sun CEO McNealy and Java creator James Gosling. Agitar was the only software development tool vendor honored with the Duke's award in 2004.