Segue Software Takes a Step Up in Automated Test Management With SilkPlan Pro.

Business/Technology Editors

LEXINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 13, 2002

Streamlines Automated Testing Process With Integrated Scheduling, Defect Tracking, Requirements Management,

and Centralized Scripts Repository/Reports Generator

Further entrenching itself as the market's e-business reliability experts, Segue Software (NASDAQ-SCM: SEGU) today announced the availability of its enhanced automated test management solution: SilkPlan Pro. SilkPlan Pro now empowers both Quality Assurance (QA) testers and developers by streamlining and automating the application testing process through robust new features, such as: integrated defect tracking, unattended test execution, and a centralized scripts repository and sophisticated reports generator.

Segue's SilkPlan Pro is a premier automated test management product that spans the entire development lifecycle of a company's core enterprise applications -- from the earliest planning stages through test design, scheduling and execution phases. The solution is designed to help QA testers and developers create predictable outcomes for their projects, manage costs, provide more effective risk management and accelerate their products' time-to-market.

"In today's competitive business environment, test scripts are one of a company's most valuable intellectual properties -- and they need to be managed as such," said Steve Butler, president and CEO, Segue Software. "Segue realizes that automation is key to helping companies better manage these proprietary assets. By making the strategic investment in SilkPlan Pro, Segue is helping customers achieve the highest levels of automation possible, thus enabling them to better leverage these critical assets."

Butler continued, "Segue further realizes this is a strategic investment and customers need it to have an immediate impact on their business and bottom line. For this reason, we've made it easy for current SilkTest and SilkPerformer customers to get up-and-running quickly. Offering full integration for these premier functional and scalability testing products, SilkPlan Pro can offer an immediate business impact as dramatic as a one-to-two quarter full return on investment."

Core to SilkPlan Pro is SilkScheduler, enabling the unattended execution of various tests. With SilkScheduler, common constraints in the testing environment (such as time, people and machine availability) are now solved by automating the testing process -- enabling full tests to be executed with or without QA supervision. This allows for better automation of existing SilkTest and SilkPerformer test cases, as well as other third-party testing tools.

"One of Segue's strengths is our ability to automate the complex testing process, and SilkPlan Pro is a perfect demonstration of this," said Basil Harris, Segue's vice president of marketing. "With SilkPlan Pro, we're making it even easier for today's developers and QA testers to streamline their testing and development processes -- resulting in faster time-to-market and higher productivity rates of their expensive QA resources."

SilkScheduler takes this process even further by offering full storage of all current and past test execution results in a centralized repository database. With this functionality, users can immediately pull historical test data and compare them to current results.

SilkPlan Pro's tightly integrated solution also allows QA engineers to not only report a failure in the testing process, but also recreate that failure scenario so it becomes immediately identifiable by product development. Saving time for developer and tester alike, SilkPlan Pro delivers a complete test management solution: the ability to manage product requirements, automate tests, and efficiently reproduce and track known defects.

Further, SilkPlan Pro boasts Web-based components for SilkScheduler -- allowing for remote scheduling and report access. These reports are of varying detail levels and paint a highly accurate picture for management as to a product's stage of readiness.

SEGUE'S SOLUTION SUITES

Segue offers a complete suite of reliability management solutions that address the most pressing challenges companies face in a rapidly changing business and technology environment. Segue's complementary solutions cover the full spectrum of lifecycle automation, enterprise reliability and performance management. With an integrated set of products, users can:

-- Obtain coordinated and faster time to worldwide markets for new releases

-- Improve application quality

-- Eliminate costly downtime and brand damage

-- Predict and prevent application failures

-- Optimize valuable resource utilization by coordinating all phases of Web
testing and monitoring across all application tiers

-- Achieve increased revenue and customer satisfaction through faster quality
local language application deployments.

About Segue Software

Segue is the world expert in delivering software and services that ensure the accuracy and performance of enterprise applications. Segue provides comprehensive scalability, performance, monitoring and verification solutions -- all aimed at ensuring reliable and predictable outcomes for fundamental business processes. A technology innovator setting new standards for higher levels of application reliability, Segue helps companies reduce risk and increase their return on investment associated with deploying new applications. By ensuring the performance, accuracy, reliability, scalability and usability of core business applications, Segue helps protect all that today's companies have at stake: their enormous investments in IT infrastructure, competitive edge and brand reputation. Segue is headquartered in Lexington, Mass. with offices across North America and Europe.

SilkPlan Pro, SilkPerformer V, SilkTest and "the e-business reliability experts" are trademarks, and Segue is a registered trademark of Segue Software, Inc. All other product names are properties of their respective companies.