About US

Our Values

• Excellence – we believe that without excellence in what we do we will not survive as a company or as individuals in this competitive world. For us excellence is not nice to have, excellence is a must.
  
  
• Integrity and Honesty – our reputation is the only thing we have; we will do whatever it takes to be fair and honest with our customers, employees and suppliers.
  
  
• Innovation – innovative thinking and our new approach is what makes PractiTest special and unique. By constantly innovating we make sure to always be one step ahead.
  
  
• Give back to the community – we believe in helping the ones who need us. We try to give back to the community whenever we can, taking part in all sort of interesting programs (e.g. training for Autistic Testers, free courses for unemployed Testers, etc). If you have a community cause where we may help contact us at: “info” AT practitest DOT com.
  
  
• Environmental – we only have one world and we do our best to help it. These are the steps we’ve done so far: Paperless office, every employee can work at least one day from home, no plastic cups, small offices (less cool/heat power). If you have any idea of how what we can do more we would love to hear it!
  
  
• Fun at what you do – we believe that having fun at what you do leads to improved work and better products.
  

PractiTest’s History Milestones

April 2010 – Exploratory Testing support.

2nd half of 2009 – Adding more great features to the product. PractiTest becomes profitable!

July 2009 – Requirements module out in production, PractiTest now covers the end-to-end ALM cycle.

June 2009 – Server infrastructure shifted to Amazon EC2; PractiTest blog is now on it’s own (splitted from QABlog).

May 2009 – PractiTest steps out of Beta: First paying customers.

January 2009 – Tests module released.

November 2008 – Initial release of Tests Design and Test Run modules; additional Beta customers.

September 2008 – Issues and Reporting modules released to production.

June 2008 – First Beta customer, Issues module only.

January 2008 – After months of designing and planning, full development had began.

Fall 2007 – Core team reunites and start talking / thinking about PractiTest.

Summer 1999 – Core team works together for first time in Cahoots.

Our Technology

In PractiTest we made several technology choices in order to be as scalable as possible, and to make sure our development process is fast and efficient. We strongly believe that PractiTest should continue being innovative and a technological leader in order to achieve our goals.

Our platform works with the following technologies:

• Ruby On Rails
• Apache
• Linux
• MySQL

If you have a question about our technology or our development methodology write to us to “info” AT practitest DOT com .

Our Management

Yaniv Iny, Operations
With vast experience in development management on multiple Start-Ups and Mid-size companies, Yaniv brings the perspective of the VP R&D looking for a more efficient and methodological way to manage QA teams. Yaniv’s focus is both on the technology aspects of the application as well as on its usefulness, regardless of their background, expertise or browser denomination.
Prior to establishing PractiTest, Yaniv Co-founded Cahoots (total investments of over $40M); and served as the CTO of Progroup and Hikkup. Yaniv was also a strategic Consultant in P.O.C. , a Management Consulting firm.

Stas Krichevsky, Technology
The technological arm of PractiTest. In addition to architecting the leading-edge technology foundations of PractiTest, Stas also provides fresh insights into the latest trends of the Web-Based and Open Source development Communities, making sure the PractiTest is in line with all the latest requirements from this demanding sector.
Stas served as System Architect in Kontera, VP Engineering in TVdoTV, Chief Architect at Entopia Inc, Chief Architect in Cahoots.

Joel Montvelisky, Product
With over 12 years experience working with hundreds of companies worldwide, Joel is driving force behind PractiTest’s Methodology and Product Design.
Having managed the QA of multiple companies and products, including Mercury’s TestDirector/QualityCenter, Joel brings with him the experience of deploying tools and methodologies in some of the most demanding and varied environments in the Industry.
Joel is an active member of the Israeli Testing Certification Board, he publishes articles on online and printed QA Publications, serves as a QA Instructor in various colleges and institutions, and also writes weekly blog articles on QA and Testing methodologies at http://qablog.practitest.com
Joel holds a B.Sc. in Industrial Engineering from Tel Aviv University, and MBA from Recanati Business School of Tel Aviv University, Israel.

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