Borland and SQA Announce SQA Suite Support for Delphi; Provides object-level integration of SQA's automated testing tools with 32-bit Delphi; strengthens Delphi's role in enterprise client/server development.WOBURN, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 17, 1996--SQA, Inc., the leader in automated testing (testing) automated testing - Software testing assisted with software tools that require no operator input, analysis, or evaluation. of Windows client/server applications, and Borland International today announced a version of SQA SQA Scottish Qualifications Authority SQA Software Quality Assurance SQA Supplier Quality Assurance SQA Society of Quality Assurance SQA Singapore Airlines SQA Sperm Quality Analyzer SQA System Quality Assurance SQA Statistical Quality Analysis Suite that supports Delphi Client/Server Suite 2.0, Borland's 32-bit visual component-based rapid application development (RAD) tool, on the Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. and Windows 95 platforms. SQA will make this support available in an update to SQA Suite 5, the 32-bit version of SQA's automated testing solution that SQA began shipping in May 1996. The updated version of SQA Suite 5 will integrate with Delphi via an object-level API provided by Borland. "Borland and SQA are both innovators and leaders in their respective markets," said Karen Moser, senior analyst at the Aberdeen Group Aberdeen Group is a provider of business-related research services. It has its headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts and belongs to the Harte-Hanks group. Founded in 1988, Aberdeen's research is used by over 2. . "As more corporations use Delphi to build robust client/server applications, they are finding that automated testing is an essential part of the development process that cannot be overlooked. Integrating Delphi with SQA's innovative solution will assist users in building and deploying industrial-strength client/server applications." "We're excited about SQA's support for Delphi Client/Server Suite," said Zack Urlocker, Borland's director of Delphi product management. "SQA has been a leading innovator in the object-level integration of test tools with development tools. As more organizations implement mission-critical applications with Delphi, they are looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. automated testing solutions to ensure the quality of their applications. Integrating SQA Suite with Delphi Client/Server Suite will be a major benefit for Delphi users." Previously, Borland selected SQA, Inc. as a premier automated test tool vendor to participate in the worldwide launch of Delphi. Borland and SQA have worked together to identify and pursue technical opportunities for enhanced integration between SQA Suite and Delphi Client/Server Suite. With this new announcement, Borland has extended their Open Tools API to include the interfaces and information that SQA needs to bring its industry-leading Object-Oriented Recording and Object Testing technologies to Delphi Client/Server Suite. This object-level integration will allow users of SQA Suite to rapidly create reliable, position-independent test scripts for Delphi applications, and automatically test the properties and data of objects in 32-bit Delphi applications, including ActiveX and OLE controls. In addition, SQA Suite will provide integrated load, stress, and multi-user testing of Delphi applications in LAN (Local Area Network) A communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area. The "clients" are the user's workstations typically running Windows, although Mac and Linux clients are also used. and WAN environments. "We're excited about the integration of SQA Suite with Borland's Delphi," said Dwight Hearns, technical consultant at First Chicago NBD NBD Next Business Day NBD National Bank of Dubai (United Arab Emirates) NBD No Big Deal NBD Network Block Device (Linux) NBD Nucleotide Binding Domain NBD New Business Development Bank Corp. "As a current user of SQA Suite on several client/server projects, this integration will allow us to successfully automate the testing of our Delphi applications, saving us the time and resources typically associated with the manual testing (testing) manual testing - That part of software testing that requires human input, analysis, or evaluation. process. Combined with SQA Suite's integrated client/server test repository and defect tracking In engineering, defect tracking is the process of finding defects in a product, (by inspection, testing, or recording feedback from customers), and making new versions of the product that fix the defects. capabilities, the object-level integration with Delphi will provide us with comprehensive testing coverage of our applications." "The Delphi Open Tools API meets our SQA Testability API specification perfectly," said Eric Schurr, SQA's vice president of product management and marketing. "Borland has done a great job of building this API, and our integration efforts with it are moving along very fast, with very exciting results. Borland is showing its commitment to providing an enterprise-level solution by delivering this API. Delphi Client/Server Suite users will benefit from this integration by the ability to use SQA Suite, the leading testing solution for client/server applications." SQA will be demonstrating its unique Delphi integration at the Borland Developers Conference on July 28-31, 1996 in Anaheim, CA. SQA expects to have field test versions of SQA Suite for Delphi in customers' hands this summer. Final pricing and release date are unavailable. About Borland International Borland International Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :BORL) is a leading provider of products and services for software developers. Borland is distinguished for its high-quality software development tools, which include Delphi, Delphi Client/Server Suite, Borland C++, Visual dBASE See dBASE versions. (language) Visual dBASE - A Rapid Application Development suite with a compiler and intranet tools to enable developers to publish data on the World-Wide Web. Originally a Borland product, the first version released by dBase, Inc. was Visual dBase 5.7. , Paradox, ReportSmith and InterBase. Borland's award-winning products are supported through comprehensive programs for small- and large-sized software developers, corporate developers, value added resellers and systems integrators. Founded in 1983, Borland is headquartered in Scotts Valley, California Scotts Valley is a small city located in eastern Santa Cruz County, California, United States, about ten miles (16 km) south of San Jose and six miles (10 km) north of the beach in the upland slope of the Santa Cruz Mountains. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 11,385. . Additional corporate and product information is available on Borland's World Wide Web site, at http://www.borland.com. About SQA, Inc. SQA, Inc., (NASDAQ: SQAX), is the leader in automated testing of Windows client/server applications. SQA has received more industry awards than any other testing solution, winning the PC Week Corporate IT Excellence Award, PC Week Labs' Analyst Choice Award, the PowerBuilder Developer's Journal Product Excellence Award twice, the 1994 and 1995 DBMS (DataBase Management System) Software that controls the organization, storage, retrieval, security and integrity of data in a database. It accepts requests from the application and instructs the operating system to transfer the appropriate data. Readers' Choice Award, and three Software Development Productivity Awards. SQA offers information about SQA's products and services via the World Wide Web at http://www.sqa.com. CONTACT: Borland International Inc. Steve Curry Stephen Thomas Curry (born September 13, 1965 in Winter Park, Florida) is a former starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who played briefly for the Boston Red Sox during the 1988 season. Listed at 6' 6", 217 lb., he batted and threw right-handed. , 408/431-4863 scurry@wpo.borland.com or SQA, Inc. Edward J. Gaudet, 617/939-3129 egaudet@sqa.com or Lois Paul and Partners Rick McLaughlin, 617/238-5752 rick_mclaughlin@lpp.com |
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