CYRANO, SQA integration agreement makes CYRANO Suite industry's most comprehensive, end-to-end automated software testing suite.NEWBURYPORT, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 3, 1997-- Worldwide OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and agreement offers application developers the most comprehensive suite of client, server and database troubleshooting technology Software testing Software testing is the process used to measure the quality of developed computer software. Usually, quality is constrained to such topics as correctness, completeness, security, but can also include more technical requirements as described under the ISO standard ISO 9126, such leaders CYRANO CYRANO CYcle-free Responsive Algorithm for Network Optimization and 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 , Inc., today announced an agreement that enables CYRANO to offer application developers the industry's most comprehensive automated testing (testing) automated testing - Software testing assisted with software tools that require no operator input, analysis, or evaluation. suite for client, server and database applications. The new integration of SQA Suite into CYRANO Suite will make client-side application development faster and easier by pinpointing problem areas with CYRANO object-ranking technology, and fixing them by simply dragging and dropping objects into the SQA automated testing environment. This feature, combined with CYRANO Suite's existing server and database testing tools, gives developers one testing environment for debugging any enterprise-level application. Users can now use CYRANO Suite to execute a variety of tests, including simulated transactions, real clients on Windows PCs, and virtual terminal processes within their enterprise. This testing suite can offer a comprehensive range of functions in one seamless package. "Applications are going to keep getting larger and more complicated even as development cycles shorten. Those factors demand one cohesive automated testing environment where developers can validate functions during the development cycle, instead of waiting until the application is completed," said Michael Barnes, research analyst for the Hurwitz Group in Newton, Mass. "Developers don't have time to track down and solve problems. With this integration of SQA and CYRANO Suite, now they don't have to." Under an OEM agreement CYRANO and SQA have signed, SQA Suite will be integrated into CYRANO Suite as three new components: CYRANO Robot, CYRANO Manager, and CYRANO LoadTest. "This agreement enhances our strategic direction and enables us to provide customers with a complete, integrated automated software quality offering," said Philippe Eyries, chairman and CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. of CYRANO. "We will seamlessly integrate the advanced functionality of SQA's automated, object-level Windows client/server testing with our own testing solutions. Using the new CYRANO Suite, our customers will dramatically reduce the risks of software unpredictability." Comprehensive solution addresses complete ASQ ASQ American Society for Quality ASQ Arab Studies Quarterly ASQ Automated Software Quality ASQ Administrative Science Quarterly ASQ Ages & Stages Questionnaires ASQ Allowable Sale Quantity ASQ Ascension Island (DoD radar) lifecycle With the SQA Suite integration, CYRANO Suite will offer a comprehensive solution to address the needs of the automated software quality (ASQ) market. CYRANO Suite will support the complete ASQ life cycle, including test planning and management, functional and regression testing of the GUI (Graphical User Interface) A graphics-based user interface that incorporates movable windows, icons and a mouse. The ability to resize application windows and change style and size of fonts are the significant advantages of a GUI vs. a character-based interface. , performance testing at the SQL SQL in full Structured Query Language. Computer programming language used for retrieving records or parts of records in databases and performing various calculations before displaying the results. transaction level, and load, stress and volumetric volumetric /vol·u·met·ric/ (vol?u-met´rik) pertaining to or accompanied by measurement in volumes. vol·u·met·ric adj. Of or relating to measurement by volume. testing across all platforms. "Automated testing has become a critical component of successful client/server deployment, and customers 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. a complete solution for automated software quality," said Ron Nordin, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of SQA. "By integrating SQA Suite with CYRANO Suite, we will be able to offer the most comprehensive client/server testing solution on the market today." On the client side, CYRANO Suite helps developers and quality assurance (QA) professionals troubleshoot their applications by easily ranking objects according to their complexity. This enables development teams to validate the most critical or complex objects first and ensure that applications meet or exceed performance criteria. On the server side, application development teams use CYRANO Suite's load and volumetric analyzers to locate the source of performance bottlenecks, detect unacceptable performance and explain why it has occurred. New York-based Shaw Data Services, a division of SunGard Data Systems, plans to use the newly integrated SQA/CYRANO Suite to test the high-demand accounting systems it develops for investment advisors all over the world. Shaw Data has just added a Windows front end to its Sybase-based product, and will use CYRANO Suite to test and tune the new application. "Our development cycle times are getting shorter and shorter. The CYRANO/SQA product will allow us to deliver the production-reliable, high performance software we're always striving for in a competitive timeframe," said Richard Punko, senior vice president of architecture at Shaw Data. "Given the track record of CYRANO and SQA, we believe the comprehensive capabilities of this testing/performance-evaluationsuite will be effective for us for the life of our product." U.S. pricing and availability CYRANO LoadTest and CYRANO ClientPack, which includes CYRANO Robot and CYRANO Manager, are available immediately. CYRANO LoadTest pricing starts at $10,000 for a single user license; CYRANO ClientPack pricing starts at $4,295 for a single user license. About SQA Suite SQA Suite delivers seamlessly-integrated automated testing of enterprise-level 32- and 16-bit Windows NT and Windows 95 client/server applications and 16-bit Windows 3.x applications. Built on a scaleable, integrated, server-based test repository, SQA Suite combines leading-edge client/server testing power, comprehensive management tools, and a formal methodology to set the standard for automated testing of cross-Windows client/server applications. SQA Suite is comprised of three leading-edge products from SQA -- SQA Robot, SQA Manager, and SQALoadTest -- and is based on the industry's only formal test methodology -- SQA Process -- to deliver a single, integrated solution for testing cross-Windows client/server applications. About CYRANO Suite CYRANO Suite provides a complete best in class quality improvement solution for client/server application design, development, deployment and maintenance. Designed to assist developers and QA teams achieve quality improvement in three key areas of their mission critical client/server applications: CYRANO ClientPack provides client development optimization, CYRANO DBPack adds SQL transaction analysis and tuning while CYRANO ServerPack delivers simulated transaction load and stress testing Determining the durability of a system by pushing it to its limits. Stress testing a network is performed by transmitting excessive numbers of packets or attempting to break in illegally. of the database servers. CYRANO Suite also delivers CYRANO VTPack, the most comprehensive family of tools for testing large distributed heterogeneous server based applications including CYRANO TestStream, a formalized for·mal·ize tr.v. for·mal·ized, for·mal·iz·ing, for·mal·iz·es 1. To give a definite form or shape to. 2. a. To make formal. b. testing process for validating applications that require a more rigorous or formal certification before use and after modification. About SQA, Inc. SQA, 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 : 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 (ITX ITX Isopropylthioxanthone ITX Intermediate Text Block ITX Interactive Transaction Executive ITX Indian Text Exchange ) Award, PC Week Labs' Analyst Choice Award, the PowerBuilder Developer's Journal Product Excellence Award twice, the 1994, 1995, and 1996 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, the Windows Tech Journal 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 . SQA can be contacted at SQA, Inc., One Burlington Woods, Burlington, Massachusetts 01803. About CYRANO CYRANO offers a unique integrated set of premier ASQ (Automated Software Quality) products and services. These are designed to enable Windows and Open System development teams to address the challenges of automated testing, quality and performance management of mission-critical client/server applications. Combining functional and regression testing, unit testing, acceptance testing, load testing and database testing, CYRANO Suite optimizes the performance and quality of client/server applications or packages during development, before deployment or during maintenance or a major migration process. CYRANO product and service information can be found on the world wide web at http://www.cyrano.com . -0- This document contains forward looking statements. Any statements contained herein that do not describe historical facts are forward looking statements. The Company makes such forward looking statements under the provisions of the "safe harbor Safe Harbor 1. A legal provision to reduce or eliminate liability as long as good faith is demonstrated. 2. A form of shark repellent implemented by a target company acquiring a business that is so poorly regulated that the target itself is less attractive. " section of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and of 1995. The forward looking statements contained herein are based on current expectations, but are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties. The facts that could cause actual results to differ materially from current expectations include the following: the potential inability of SQA, Inc. (NASDAQ: SQAX) and Rational Software Corporation (NASDAQ: RATL RATL Raising Achievement Transforming Learning (Specialist Schools and Academies Trust) RATL Renaldo and The Loaf (music duo) RATL Rapsyn-Associated Transmembrane Linker RATL Rockin' ATLanta ) to consummate as planned, or at all, the proposed merger announced on November 12, 1996; the inability to successfully integrate the products and operations of Rational and SQA following the merger, and there can be no assurance that this will occur; variances between actual and estimated costs and expenses related to the proposed merger; the inability of SQA to successfully develop new products in a field characterized by rapid technological change; the inability of SQA to effectively adapt its products for use in Internet or Intranet environments or to successfully compete in the market for Internet and Intranet products; dependence upon the hiring and retention of key personnel; the continued success of the Microsoft operating system; the potential for fluctuations in quarterly operating results; intense competitions from current and potential competitors of SQA, including Microsoft, who may be able to respond more quickly to new or emerging technologies and changes in customer requirements, and the other risks detailed from time to time in SQA's SEC reports, including but not limited to the Form 10-Q Form 10-Q See 10-Q. for the period ended September 30, 1996 and Form 8-K Form 8-K The form required by the SEC when a publicly held company incurs any event that might affect its financial situation or the share value of its stock. Form 8-K See 8-K. dated December 6, 1996. CONTACT: CYRANO Deborah Breen (800) 714-4900 dbreen@cyrano.com or SQA, Inc. Edward J. Gaudet (617) 229-3629 egaudet@sqa.com or Beaupre & Co. Public Relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most Glen Zimmerman (603) 436-6690 gzimmer@beaupre.com or Lois Paul and Partners Todd Keefe (617) 238-5736 todd_keefe@lpp.com |
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