Telelogic Announces Automated Model-Based Testing Solution Utilizing the UML 2.0 Testing Profile.

- New Graphical Testing Process Extends Design for Testability Enabling Robust Testing and Increasing Product Quality -

MALMO, Sweden & IRVINE, California -- Telelogic (STO:TLOG) (Nordic Exchange/MidCap/TLOG ), today announced an automated model-based testing solution for the embedded/real-time market that fully supports the Unified Modeling Language[TM] (UML[R]) 2.0 testing profile.

The new offering, which is a key component of the company's Design for Testability initiative, includes the latest releases of Telelogic Rhapsody[R] ATG and Rhapsody TestConductor[TM] products. These products improve test productivity, product quality and competitiveness, while reducing test and development costs by delivering the benefits of graphical modeling and automation associated with Model-Driven Development[TM] (MDD[TM]) into the testing domain. They also provide a migration path from traditional code-based test development to model-based testing, and offer a new graphical test development approach that works seamlessly with the Rhapsody MDD environment.

"Design for Testability is an initiative that moves testing from its traditional place as the last step in the development process to much earlier in the design phase. This enables developers to uncover errors sooner, when they are less costly to fix," said Ingemar Ljungdahl, Chief Technology Officer, Telelogic. "With the introduction of the latest version of Rhapsody ATG and TestConductor, developers can now create test cases quickly and can match the productivity gains made by developers and engineers working in a Rhapsody Model Driven Development environment. This approach can simplify testing even the most complex designs."

The new Rhapsody test solutions offer developers powerful benefits:

- Users can meet the challenges presented by increased design complexity by graphically modeling test cases, thus leveraging the power of abstraction provided by models.

- Users can increase their efficiency and flexibility by automatically generating the test harness and test cases, previously a time-consuming and error-prone process.

- Users can use the UML 2.0 testing profile to integrate the entire design and test process seamlessly into one cohesive MDD environment, improving configuration management and change propagation.

Rhapsody ATG and TestConductor are available now.

About Telelogic Rhapsody

Rhapsody is the industry's leading UML 2.0 and OMG SysML-based Model-Driven Development environment for embedded systems and software engineering. With advanced capabilities to extend UML 2.0, Rhapsody allows both function-oriented and object-oriented design techniques to co-exist in one environment. Rhapsody has won numerous awards including the Best in Show award at the Embedded Systems Conferences in San Francisco and Boston from VDC; the SD Times 100 for the third year in a row by taking top honors in the Modeling category; and the Model-Driven Development Focus of the Embedded Development Arena award. Rhapsody has been recently endorsed by Embedded Market Forecasters as the tool of choice for C developers.

About Telelogic

Telelogic[R] is a leading global provider of solutions for automating and supporting best practices across the enterprise - from powerful modeling of business processes and enterprise architectures to requirements-driven development of advanced systems and software. Telelogic's solutions enable organizations to align product, systems, and software development lifecycles with business objectives and customer needs to dramatically improve quality and predictability, while significantly reducing time-to-market and overall costs.

To better enable our customers' drive towards an automated lifecycle process, Telelogic supports an open architecture and the use of standardized languages. As an industry leader and technology visionary, Telelogic is actively involved in shaping the future of enterprise architecture, application lifecycle management, and customer needs management by participating in industry organizations such as INCOSE, OMG, The Open Group, Eclipse, ETSI, ITU-T, the TeleManagement Forum, and AUTOSAR.

Headquartered in Malmo, Sweden, with U.S. headquarters in Irvine, California, Telelogic has operations in 20 countries worldwide. Customers include Airbus, Alcatel, BAE SYSTEMS, BMW, Boeing, DaimlerChrysler, Deutsche Bank, Ericsson, General Electric, General Motors, Lockheed Martin, Motorola, NEC, Philips, Samsung, Siemens, Sprint, Thales, and Vodafone.

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