Rational Software Corporation Announces Latest Release of its Award-Winning Suite of Automated Testing Tools; SQA Suite 6.0 Delivers Integration with Rational Rose Visual Modeling Tool: Introduces Web Server Virtual Load Testing; Extends Object Testing to Oracle's Developer/2000.SANTA CLARA Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 2, 1997--Rational Software Corporation today announced the release 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 6.0 the newest version of its suite of automated client/server and Internet testing tools. SQA Suite 6.0, comprised of SQA Robot, SQA Manager, SQA LoadTest, and SQA Process, strengthens Rational's solution for automating component-based development by offering the first integration of its testing products with the Rational Rose family of visual modeling tools. In addition, the SQA Suite 6.0 release introduces the next generation of SQA LoadTest with new capabilities for HTTP-based virtual user performance testing Performance Testing covers a broad range of engineering or functional evaluations where a material, product, or system is not specified by detailed material or component specifications: Rather, emphasis is on the final measurable performance characteristics. for Web servers. The new release also adds programming power to SQA Robot with Rational's new Object Scripting technology and extends SQA Suite's object-level integration to Oracle's Developer/2000. SQA Suite 6.0 is scheduled to begin volume shipments within 30 days. SQA Suite's integration with Rational Rose is part of Rational's plan to integrate all of Rational's commercial IS products to provide a comprehensive family of tools for automating component-based development. The integration increases the productivity of the members of a project team and introduces quality early and throughout the application's lifecycle. The new release enables project teams to automate their test planning by directly generating testing requirements and test procedure definitions into the SQA Repository from a Rational Rose model. This complements SQA Suite's existing integration with RequisitePro, Rational's requirements management The administration and control of the information needs of users. In order to achieve business objectives within an organization via information systems, user requirements must be defined in a consistent manner, prioritized and monitored. solution. Used together, RequisitePro, Rational Rose, and SQA Suite provide a unique, integrated solution for automating component-based development. SQA Suite 6.0 also represents a major enhancement of the performance testing capabilities of SQA LoadTest. The new virtual user testing capabilities in SQA LoadTest 6.0 allow developers to simulate the load of hundreds of users on a single 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. workstation, enabling thorough testing of Web server performance before deployment. "This new version of SQA Suite continues to move the attention to software quality earlier in the development cycle and more broadly throughout the project team," said Eric Schurr, vice-president of product marketing Rational's Commercial IS Products. "SQA Suite 6.0's integration with Rational Rose is an unprecedented advancement in automated software quality technology, and it will increase productivity and accuracy for project teams. It's a key element of our total solution for automating component-based development." Major new features of SQA Suite 6.0 include: -- Industry's only integration of automated software quality tools with visual modeling tools automates test planning -- The new integration between Rational Rose and SQA Suite leverages the power of the Rational Rose model by automatically generating test plans and test procedure definitions directly into the SQA Test Repository. The seamless integration An addition of a new application, routine or device that works smoothly with the existing system. It implies that the new feature or program can be installed and used without problems. Contrast with "transparent," which implies that there is no discernible change after installation. automates the test planning and test procedure definition process by generating hundreds of entries in the SQA Test Repository in only seconds. The integration also ensures that any changes in the Rational Rose model can be reflected in the SQA Test Repository to ensure that the Rational Rose Model and SQA Suite Test Repository are synchronized syn·chro·nize v. syn·chro·nized, syn·chro·niz·ing, syn·chro·niz·es v.intr. 1. To occur at the same time; be simultaneous. 2. To operate in unison. v.tr. 1. throughout the development lifecycle. By enabling users to import use cases and use case scenarios from Rational Rose models, SQA Suite 6.0 introduces quality into the development process at the earliest stages and provides a powerful jump start for the test planning phase In amphibious operations, the phase normally denoted by the period extending from the issuance of the order initiating the amphibious operation up to the embarkation phase. The planning phase may occur during movement or at any other time upon receipt of a new mission or change in the of an automated testing (testing) automated testing - Software testing assisted with software tools that require no operator input, analysis, or evaluation. effort. With a comprehensive test plan in place, users can immediately begin recording and running tests to fully test all of the functionality in the application. This accelerates the testing process by reducing the time needed to develop testing requirements and provides tight integration between the testing and development efforts. -- Virtual user load, stress and performance testing for Web servers-- SQA Suite 6.0 introduces the next generation of SQA LoadTest with a complete end-to-end load testing Load testing is the process of creating demand on a system or device and measuring its response. In mechanical systems it refers to the testing of a system to certify it under the appropriate regulations (LOLER in the UK - Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment solution that combines client-side 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. testing with server-side virtual user testing. The combination allows users to measure the actual response time of the application as experienced by a user at the browser/client level while the server is subjected to a heavy load. Virtual user testing enables SQA LoadTest to impose heavy loads on Web servers without having to provide a physical workstation for every user. With SQA Suite's virtual user recording capabilities, SQA Robot records the conversation between the client and the server, and can then play back multiple instances of that conversation, enabling the load of hundreds of users to be simulated from a single machine. Because SQA LoadTest 6.0 can command a series of machines to generate the simulated load of hundreds of users, SQA LoadTest offers a powerful, scalable solution that helps ensure Web servers can perform under heavy production loads. This complete, end-to-end solution (jargon) end-to-end solution - (E2ES) A term that suggests that the supplier of an application program or system will provide all the hardware and/or software components and resouces to meet the customer's requirement and no other supplier need be involved. Compare: turn-key solution. helps ensure Web servers are business-ready before deployment. -- New programming access to objects and ActiveX components A software module based on Microsoft's Component Object Model (COM) architecture. Increasingly, Microsoft is using the term ActiveX to refer to a variety of its COM-based technologies. See ActiveX control, ActiveX Documents, ActiveX Server Component and COM. with Object Scripting -- Object Scripting commands add power to the SQA Suite user by providing programmatic pro·gram·mat·ic adj. 1. Of, relating to, or having a program. 2. Following an overall plan or schedule: a step-by-step, programmatic approach to problem solving. 3. access to object properties from within a test procedure script. Using the SQABasic or Visual Basic 4.0 scripting language A high-level programming, or command, language that is interpreted (translated on the fly) rather than compiled ahead of time. A scripting, or script, language may be a general-purpose programming language or it may be limited to specific functions used to augment the running of an (16-bit and 32-bit versions), users can determine or change the value of an object's properties. Combined with the productivity and ease of use of SQA Suite's Object Testing and Object-Oriented Recording technologies, Object Scripting provides a solution that combines the industry's easiest-to-use test creation with a powerful programming environment. -- The industry's most advanced support for Developer/2000 -- SQA Suite 6.0 offers the industry's most advanced support for object-level testing of 32-bit and 16-bit Oracle Developer/2000 applications in Windows NT 4.0, Windows NT 3.5, Windows 95 and Windows 3.x Windows 3.x can refer to either an individual or all of the following versions of Microsoft Windows:
-- The industry's only automatic test data generation seamlessly integrated with load testing -- SQA Suite 6.0 introduces the SQA DataPool Manager, a powerful tool that automatically populates data files -- called DataPools -- with test data records. This satisfies an important element in virtual user load testing: the need to have hundreds of virtual users run the same transaction, but with each user sending different data to the server. SQA Suite 6.0 automatically creates data-driven test scripts The instructions in a test program. It defines the actions and pass/fail criteria. For example, if the action is "to enter a valid account number," the expected result is that the data are accepted. Entering an invalid number should yield a particular error message. See test case. , a task requiring tedious programming in other load testing products. As SQA Suite 6.0 records virtual user scripts it automatically converts any recorded data values into variables, creates and binds a DataPool to the script, and generates test data into the DataPool. The resulting script can be immediately run as multiple users, each sending different data values. DataPools can be stored for reuse in the SQA Repository, to ensure consistent data testing each time. The SQA DAtaPool Manager is seamlessly integrated with SQA Robot with a point-and-click GUI interface for rapid ease of use. -- Enhanced Integration with PowerBuilder and C/C C/C Center to Center C/C Combustion Chamber C/C Command/Control C/C Crew Chief C/C cabin cruiser (US DoD) C/C chief complaint (medical) C/C Channel-to-Channel C/C Communication and Collaboration ++ -- SQA Suite 6.0 offers even greater integration with the latest version of Powersoft's PowerBuilder development tool, PowerBuilder 5.0 including new action parameters to identify data windows rows, value-based recording of data window rows and testing expression values of DataWindows or DataWindow subobjects. SQA Suite 6.0 also provides additional support for C/C++ by enabling users to test ActiveX controls within C/C++ applications. "SQA Suite 6.0 is the most comprehensive, seamlessly integrated solution for ensuring the quality of enterprise client/server and Internet applications," said Tom Bogan, SQA business unit manager for Rational. "SQA Suite continues to set the standard for the automated software quality (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) ) industry, with the first and only integration of an automated testing tool with a visual modeling tool and powerful new capabilities for testing the performance of Web-based applications. And, our support for Developer/2000 enables an important new group of customers to take full advantage of SQA Suite." About SQA Suite SQA Suite from Rational is a comprehensive set of testing tools, delivering seamlessly integrated functional and load testing of enterprise-level client/server and Internet applications. Built on a scalable, integrated server-based test repository, SQA Suite combines leading-edge testing power and comprehensive management tools to set the standard for automated testing of cross-Windows client/server and Internet applications. The new release of SQA Suite: LoadTest Edition (starting at $9,995), which includes SQA LoadTest, SQA Robot, and SQA Manager, is scheduled for released in the second quarter of 1997. Each purchase of SQA LoadTest Edition includes a choice of GUI agents and 50 HTTP HTTP in full HyperText Transfer Protocol Standard application-level protocol used for exchanging files on the World Wide Web. HTTP runs on top of the TCP/IP protocol. Virtual Users, which can be supplemented with additional blocks of Virtual Users. SQA Robot and SQA Manager can be purchased separately ($2,695 for a single user license of SQA Robot and $1,395 for a single user license of SQA Manager) The new release of SQA Suite: TeamTest Edition ($3,295 for a single user license), which includes SQA Robot and SQA Manager, is scheduled to begin volume shipments with 30 days. About Rational Software Corporation Rational Software Corporation (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 :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 ) develops, markets and supports a comprehensive solution that automates the component-based development of software. 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