NEWTON CENTRE, MA, January 3, 1996-Segue Software, Inc. today announced enhanced support for the PowerBuilder development tool from Powersoft Corporation. The PowerBuilder Extension to Segue's QA Partner® provides advanced testing capabilities beyond those available through Powersoft's test applications programming interface (TAPI).
QA Partner, which recently received a PowerBuilder Developer's Journal Seal of Excellence , can now automatically drive and interrogate all of the PowerBuilder Data Window components to provide point-and-click record/playback functionality. This breakthrough permits QA and development professionals to treat Powersoft objects just like any other standard object, enabling more thorough testing without having to rely solely on the information supplied in the TAPI.
"QA Partner is now the only tool that can verify both the attribute definition and the actual value displayed to the user," said Tim Perkins, Segue's vice president of marketing. "For example, a customer building a payroll application can verify not only the formulas that calculate total salaries, but also confirm that those salaries displayed on the screen total correctly. QA Partner now enables verification of the actual result, not merely the code that is intended to create the result. Other PowerBuilder testing tools can only interrogate the attributes of the Data Window behind the screen, but fail to verify the information that is actually being displayed to the user."
The release also includes a dramatically enhanced user interface that further improves ease-of-use and permits full point-and-click creation of PowerBuilder test scripts. Perkins said, "Segue's commercial customers are finding they require the robustness and depth of flexibility that Segue has been providing to independent software vendors for years. With the increased power and ease-of-use of QA Partner-and the introduction of seamlessly integrated test management with QA Planner™-commercial customers are increasingly using Segue's testing technology with their mainstream application development tools."
"Segue views Powersoft as a key marketing partner and customer," said Perkins. "Segue works closely with Powersoft to ensure testing across multiple platforms. QA Partner is the only test tool vendor that will support all current and future operating systems supported by Powersoft, enabling cross-platform testing for PowerBuilder developers."
Pricing and Availability
PowerBuilder support will be available January 15 on Windows 3.1 at no extra charge beyond the price of QA Partner, and will be available on Windows 95, Windows NT, and UNIX following the release of PowerBuilder 5.0 on those platforms.
About Segue Software
Segue Software develops, markets and supports the QA Partner and QA Planner line of testing products, which enables the rapid development and re-use of automated software tests across more than 25 platforms. QA Partner is currently used by more than 6,500 software quality professionals worldwide. Headquartered in Newton Centre, Massachusetts, Segue also has offices in San Francisco, Atlanta, and Dallas, and distribution offices throughout Europe, Canada, and Australia. Segue's 90-plus employees provide automated testing products and consulting services to organizations developing client/server software applications. Segue Software offers corporate and product information through its World Wide Web site, located at http://www.segue.com.
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