Xamarin acquires LessPainful

[Jonas Maturana Larsen]

We have some exciting news for everyone: as a natural step to provide a better testing solution to all mobile developers and teams, the San Francisco based mobile tech start-up Xamarin has acquired LessPainful and hired us. Xamarin's main goal is to enable developers to write cross-platform mobile apps using C# in either Visual Studio or Xamarin Studio.

We're extremely excited to be joining the Xamarin team to drive the development of the Xamarin Test Cloud and further improving Calabash.


So, what does this mean for Calabash?

Only good things! With this opportunity, we will get increased resources and be able to focus much more on Calabash and Xamarin Test Cloud. We will continue to work on the Calabash, and we'll still be here: following and answering questions on the forums, managing pull requests, fixing bugs, developing features etc.
Also, Calabash will remain open source like it has always been.


You're welcome to ask questions here, but we recommend reading Xamarin announcement and watching the keynote from Xamarin Evolve where the acquisition and product was announced.

http://xamarin.com/test-cloud

http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/16/xamarin-launches-test-cloud-automated-mobile-ui-testing-platform-acquires-mobile-test-company-lesspainful/

Thanks to everyone for using and supporting Calabash and LessPainful! We think the future looks even more promising and bright!

- Jonas

[Juan Delgado]

Wow : )

Congrats guys!! I really hope this means you get more resources and better Calabash for everyone in the future.

Keep up the good work!

J

- Jonas

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[Jonas Maturana Larsen]

Thank you Juan :)

It will mean better Calabash for everyone as soon as this settles down and we get back to work.

[Allen Au]

Congrats!  Looking forward to seeing more great things in Calabash.  I'm doubly exited, since I'm down the street from Xamarin:-)

[Sumeet]

Nice one! Congratulations.

[Jian Fang]

That is great! Jonas.

Now move to SF :)

[Radhika Kande]

Congratulation Jonas!!

-Radhika

[Ara]

Congratulations!!!.

Looking forward to see great things.

[chandra]

Congrats :)

On Friday, April 19, 2013 5:44:31 AM UTC+1, Jonas Maturana Larsen wrote: