SQA announces SQA Suite for Visual Basic 4.0; SQA Suite helps users migrate their applications to newest version of Visual Basic; provides Object Testing(tm) for Visual Basic 4.0.WOBURN, Mass--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 12, 1995--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 Microsoft(R) Windows(R) client/server applications, today announced that 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(tm) for Visual Basic now supports Microsoft Visual Basic(R) 4.0, the newest version of the popular client/server development tool. SQA Suite for Visual Basic sets a new standard for the automated testing of Visual Basic applications and eases the migration of existing Visual Basic applications to Visual Basic 4.0. SQA Suite for Visual Basic provides seamlessly-integrated testing for enterprise Windows client/server applications developed with Visual Basic. SQA is the first independent test tool vendor to announce support for Visual Basic 4.0, providing a solution that helps Visual Basic users migrate from Visual Basic 3.0 to Visual Basic 4.0 with confidence. To take advantage of all the new features in Visual Basic 4.0, users will need to recompile To compile a program again. A program is recompiled after a change has been made to it in order to test and run the revised version. Programs are recompiled many times during the course of development and maintenance. See compile. their existing Visual Basic applications. Users can build SQA Suite 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. to ensure that recompilation Re`com`pi`la´tion n. 1. A new compilation. has not introduced any errors or changes to the existing application. SQA Suite for Visual Basic provides the fastest method of migrating an existing Visual Basic application to Visual Basic 4.0 by helping to ensure the application is bug-free before it is deployed. "Visual Basic 4.0 provides the power to build enterprise Windows client/server applications, and users will want to take advantage of its many new features," stated 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. "SQA Suite for Visual Basic makes it easy to ensure the quality of these applications once migrated to Visual Basic 4.0. We've combined the input of our Visual Basic customers with our Microsoft relationship to once again deliver the industry's leading solution with the most benefits for Visual Basic users." "SQA is a leader in the Windows client/server market," stated Jon Roskill, marketing director for Microsoft. "SQA Suite for Visual Basic provides key technologies for mission-critical client/server development shops. If you're building enterprise-level applications with Visual Basic, you should be thinking about SQA's enterprise-level products." SQA Suite for Visual Basic sets a new standard in Visual Basic testing by delivering SQA's unique Object Testing(tm) technology for Visual Basic 4.0 applications. Object Testing goes beyond testing just an application's 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. by inspecting and verifying properties of Visual Basic objects, even non-visual properties that can't be verified by simple GUI test tools or manual testing (testing) manual testing - That part of software testing that requires human input, analysis, or evaluation. . SQA Suite can even test all of the properties of any third-party Visual Basic Custom Control (VBX (Visual Basic EXtension) A component software technology from Microsoft that enabled a Visual Basic (Windows) program to add functionality by calling ready-made software modules. ). By testing all of the components of a Visual Basic application, SQA Suite for Visual Basic offers the most comprehensive, object-level support for Visual Basic client/server applications. "Visual Basic introduced and defined the concept of component-based software development," said Eric Schurr, SQA's vice president of product management and marketing. "SQA's Object Testing provides the fastest, most comprehensive approach to testing all of the components of a Visual Basic client/server application, including third-party VBXes. With Object Testing, SQA Suite for Visual Basic delivers the most powerful and complete automated testing solution for any version of Visual Basic." SQA Suite for Visual Basic is the only testing solution that offers Visual Basic as a 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 . Users familiar with Visual Basic can use Visual Basic 4.0 as the scripting environment and compile engine when creating and running automated tests. SQA also offers SQABasic(tm), an integrated scripting environment which is completely compatible with Visual Basic. Both scripting environments generate scripts that are easily extended to create sophisticated tests for Visual Basic client/server applications. SQA Suite for Visual Basic The SQA Suite for Visual Basic is comprised of four products: SQA LoadTest 2.0: SQA LoadTest(tm) is the fastest way to test Visual Basic client/server applications on TCP/IP TCP/IP in full Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol Standard Internet communications protocols that allow digital computers to communicate over long distances. , NETBIOS, or IPX/SPX See IPX. networks under different load, stress, and multi-user scenarios. SQA LoadTest lets users ensure a Visual Basic client/server application is production-ready before it is deployed. SQA Process 2.0: The industry's only 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. methodology for the automated testing of Windows client/server applications, SQA Process(tm) provides a framework for creating a world-class quality assurance organization dedicated to the automated testing of client/server applications. SQA Process is delivered as a one-day training course called the SQA Process Primer, an SQA Process Package (five-day intensive consulting and training package, plus productivity tools and sample applications), and an electronic Library template for LBMS LBMS Long Beach Middle School (New York) LBMS Lake Bluff Middle School (Lake Bluff, Illinois) LBMS Lake Belton Middle School (Belton, TX) Process Engineer. SQA Robot 4.0: The award-winning test automation product, SQA Robot(tm) uses Object Testing technology to test Visual Basic applications at the object level. SQA Robot offers an easy-to-use graphical interface See GUI. , a choice of extensible scripting environments, and a wide variety of specialized Visual Basic test cases for end-to-end testing of both the client and server portion of a Visual Basic client/server application. SQA Manager 4.0: Based on a networked test repository, the award-winning SQA Manager(tm) offers functions for test planning and development, reporting and analysis, and defect management (1) The elimination of bugs in software and flaws in hardware. Defect management is part of a software or hardware development project. (2) The prevention of data errors in a storage medium by invalidating bad sectors. . Completely customizable, SQA Manager offers integrated, email-enabled workflow tracking and defect management combined with powerful reporting and graphing to make test management intuitive and flexible. SQA Suite for Visual Basic was recently previewed at the highly-successful seminar series sponsored by Microsoft, LBMS, and SQA. The six-city seminar series, entitled "Enabling the Enterprise: Delivering World-Class Client/Server Applications with Microsoft Visual Basic," was attended by almost 1,500 Visual Basic development professionals. At the seminar, attendees were given a hands-on demonstration of how to design, build, and test an enterprise-level application with Microsoft Visual Basic and SQA Suite. SQA Suite for Visual Basic is available immediately. Pricing for SQA Suite: TeamTest Edition is $2,995 per user license. Pricing for SQA Suite: Client/Server Edition is available from SQA. About SQA, Inc. SQA, Inc. is the leader in automated testing of Windows client/server applications and one of the fastest growing test tool vendors in the industry, with over 1,500 customers and 15,000 licenses sold worldwide. SQA has technology and marketing agreements with Borland, Corporate Computing, Gupta, Informix, Intersolv, LBMS, Microsoft, Oracle, Powersoft, and Symantec. The Standish Group International, an independent research firm based in Dennis, Mass., recently concluded that SQA is the leading vendor in the Windows, GUI-based, automated test market, with 65% of total Windows test tool licenses sold. SQA has received more industry awards than any other testing solution, winning the PC Week Labs' Analyst Choice Award, the 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 the Software Development Productivity Award. -0- NOTE TO EDITORS: For a review copy of the SQA Suite for Visual Basic, please call Edward J. Gaudet at 800-228-9922, ext. 129 or CompuServe 73364, 602. SQA is a registered trademark and SQA Suite, SQA TeamTest, Object Testing, Object-Oriented Recording, SQA Process, SQA Robot, SQA Manager, and SQA LoadTest are trademarks of SQA, Inc. Microsoft, Windows, and Visual Basic are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation (company) Microsoft Corporation - The biggest supplier of operating systems and other software for IBM PC compatibles. Software products include MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows, Windows NT, Microsoft Access, LAN Manager, MS Client, SQL Server, Open Data Base Connectivity (ODBC), MS Mail, . All other trademarks are property of their respective owners. CONTACT: Edward J. Gaudet SQA, Inc. 617.939.3129 email: 73364.602@compuserve.com egaudet@sqa.com or Steven Swartz Steven Swartz Public Relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. 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