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Seapine Software's QA Wizard 3.1 adds optical character recognition & remote script monitoring.


Seapine Software Seapine Software is a privately-held, Mason, Ohio-based software and services company whose products address software application lifecycle management and quality assurance. , Inc., a provider of adaptable application lifecycle management The administration and control of an application from inception to its demise. It embraces requirements management, system design, software development and configuration management and implies an integrated set of tools for developing and controlling the project.  (AALM AALM adaptable application lifecycle management
AALM All-Ages Lead Model
AALM American Alliance for Loan Management
) solutions, announced recently the immediate availability of QA Wizard 3.1 for automated functional testing of Windows and Web applications. New features in QA Wizard 3.1 include optical character recognition optical character recognition (OCR), method for the machine-reading of typeset, typed, and, in some cases, hand-printed letters, numbers, and symbols using optical sensing and a computer.  checkpoints, a script status tool, and significant improvements to batch file management.

Headlining the new release is the addition of optical character recognition (OCR OCR
 in full optical character recognition

Scanning and comparison technique intended to identify printed text or numerical data. It avoids the need to retype already printed material for data entry.
) technology, which is used to convert graphical representations of characters into actual text. OCR checkpoints allow users to verify graphic-based text in objects, such as images charts, graphs, Flash-based application, and Java applets, that QA Wizard cannot recognize using more traditional techniques. This new feature helps QA Wizard users test previously unsupported controls.

QA Wizard 3.1 also includes a new script status tool. The script status tool gives users the ability to remotely monitor the progress of test scripts from their desks or while away from the office. The status tool can simultaneously monitor multiple workstations running QA Wizard test scripts.

In addition, QA Wizard 3.1 includes improved script batch management capabilities. Users can now view and manage batch files from within the application, change the order that scripts run in the batch file, easily update batch files when scripts change, and select batch file run options. Other QA Wizard 3.1 enhancements include an improved regular expression builder, the ability to capture screenshots and HTML HTML
 in full HyperText Markup Language

Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web.
, and much more.
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Date:May 2, 2005
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