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Real-World Distributed Software Testing

Across the Web, diverse operating systems, hardware components, software packages, and Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs)

The only thing that matters is that your client/server system actually works when you put it into production and turn on the switch.

How can you insure that it will? Thoroughly test it under real-world production conditions, before it goes into production. That doesn't mean testing an application on just a single client machine. Nor does it mean testing the various components of an application separately and serially. In the real world, applications run in a distributed environment, interacting and exchanging data with the server and other clients over a network -- LAN, WAN, the Web or intranet. And that's how they should be tested.

With Segue QualityWorks, you can create one test with the ability to test all components of your application (client, server, middleware, the Web, database and network) in real time -- no matter what platforms they're running on or where in the world they're located -- as they're interacting in a distributed environment. It's simply not possible to do that with any other testing system on the market.

A Central Point of Control for Quality Management

Integrated test planning, defect tracking and central repository

With QualityWorks, test planning is an integral part of the QA process and the test plan becomes a powerful QA management tool. All tests grow out of the test plan and can be run through it, test results are related back to the plan and management uses the plan to continuously document the progress of its test automation program. What's more, integrated defect tracking and a scalable central defect repository combine to provide automated lifecycle bug tracking and point-and-click QA administration.

Automatic Testing of Client/Server and Web Applications

Easier to use and 6 times faster than standard recording

Now high startup costs and long learning curves are a thing of the past. Ready-to-use Segue QualityWare gets QA organizations off to the fastest possible start, enabling them to generate test scripts and carry out basic application testing in minutes -- right out of the box, with no coding required. Corporate intranet and World Wide Web applications can also be automatically tested with QualityWare scripts to validate links and speed site deployment, without coding. Testing need no longer be a bottleneck in Web site development and maintenance; intranet/Web site content and links can now be tested as fast as you can put them in place -- completely automatically.

True Unattended Testing

For lights-out testing around the clock, due to a unique recovery system

When you're faced with a seemingly impossible delivery date, budget restrictions and QA staff shortages, Segue's unique unattended testing capabilities could be the answer. There's no better way to get more and better testing done in the less time with existing staff than unattended, around-the-clock, lights-out testing with Segue QualityWorks. Unlike other testing systems, QualityWorks eliminates cascading errors with a built-in recovery system that returns the application to a pre-set state before moving on to the next testcase following an application error. In addition, the application state is automatically restored before recording begins to ensure that all recordings will play back as intended.

Reusable Scripts

One test script can be used hundreds of times across releases, platforms and networks, without rewriting

Most QA people spend most of their time rewriting test scripts as a result of changes in the application, user interface, hardware configuration or operating environment. But with QualityWorks, your scripts never have to be rewritten. They can be reused repeatedly to test each new build of your application, across multiple platforms, with only minor modifications. This not only increases the return on your initial test development investment and reduces additional coding costs, but it also enables you to maintain a single standard of quality for your application over time -- across releases, platforms and networks.

Multi-Platform Support

Across more than 20 platforms and development environments, including Windows, UNIX, OS/2 Macintosh and the Web.

No longer do you have to buy and learn how to use a different system to test your distributed client/server application on each new target platform. Unlike competitive systems that can only test applications written for a specific operating system (Windows, UNIX, etc.), QualityWorks can test applications written in any development environment for a wide variety of platforms -- including those written for the World Wide Web.

What's more, you can use the same set of QualityWorks scripts to test an application as it is migrated to new platforms in the future or implemented on additional platforms across a network. This not only makes it possible to test your heterogeneous distributed systems today, but it will also protect your QA investment tomorrow -- as your network environment inevitably changes and becomes more complex.