SEGUE SOFTWARE INTRODUCES QUALITYWORKS FAMILY OF SOFTWARE TESTING PRODUCTS

PRODUCTS VALIDATE ALL COMPONENTS OF DISTRIBUTED CLIENT/SERVER APPLICATIONS

NEWTON CENTRE, MA, February 13 , 1996-Segue Software, Inc. today introduced
the QualityWorks family of software quality tools. In a separate
announcement, Segue introduced two new software quality products that are
included within QualityWorks.

QualityWorks consists of Segue's QA Partner multi-platform test tool and
integrated companion products, allowing application developers and
software quality professionals an open, modular approach to implementing
automated quality assurance solutions. QualityWorks leverages the power of
QA Partner to enable Distributed Testing, Test Management, QualityWare,
and Open Integration. These four major components are fully integrated
with each other as part of the QualityWorks family. "QualityWorks is the
natural evolution of Segue's product vision for enterprise software
testing", explained Elisabeth Elterman, Chief Executive Officer for Segue.
"Together these products combine and deliver testing functionality,
productivity, methodology, and management. QualityWorks leverages the
power of Segue's cross platform testing technology to validate all the
components of 2nd generation distributed client/server applications." The
QualityWorks components are:

* QA Partner - The premier multi-platform regression and functional testing
tool serves as the foundation for QualityWorks. Test Management - A
facility which provides fully integrated test planning, management, and
reporting throughout the testing process. QA Planner allows a single point
for customers to manage the testing process, allowing seamless integration
of test planning with test creation, execution, results analysis, and
management reporting.

* QualityWare - Packaged test scripts published using Segue's powerful
Visual 4Test language that provides automatic testing. The first title in
this series is GO!, which was introduced in December, 1995, and
automatically creates routine GUI test scripts, more than six times faster
than traditional record/playback techniques.

* Distributed Testing - Extend testing beyond one client and beyond the
graphical user interface using QA Partner Agent technology. QA
Partner:Distributed supports native network protocols and concurrent
cross-platform testing across the network of both clients and servers. QA
DBTester allows direct access to the application's database, extending
automated testing to the direct verification and management of the
application's data. Both QA Partner:Distributed and QA DBTester were
announced today for immediate delivery.

* Open Integration - QualityWork's architecture permits the extension to
integrate with complimentary technologies. This includes built-in support
for leading development tools such PowerBuilder, Visual Basic, and
SQLWindows. The QA Partner Extension Kit permits user defined
extensibility to the testing architecture, making possible integration
with any custom objects. Other integrated technologies include simulated
load testing, which provide customers the ability to develop test plans
and execute test scripts from within QA Planner and QA Partner that drive
load testing products directly.

"Segue is providing an open quality assurance architecture that provides
enterprise testing across platforms, operating systems and networks, as
well as tight integration with complementary tools used to build, test,
deploy and maintain applications," said Elterman. "The QualityWorks family
allows organizations to achieve immediate testing productivity with
existing staff, easily create and maintain multiplatform tests, and keep
pace with changes to the graphical interface, hardware, application logic,
database, middleware, and other components."

Bundled pricing is available for QualityWorks products, allowing customers
to configure the appropriate testing system for their environment.

ABOUT SEGUE SOFTWARE

Segue Software develops, markets and supports the QualityWorks family of
open architecture quality assurance software tools, methodology, and
management. QualityWorks enables the rapid development and re- use of
automated software tests across more than 25 platforms, and is currently
used by more than 8,000 software quality professionals worldwide.
Headquartered in Newton Centre, Massachusetts, Segue also has offices in
San Francisco, Atlanta, Chicago, 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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