SEGUE SOFTWARE ANNOUNCES IMMEDIATE AVAILABILITY OF TWO DISTRIBUTED SOFTWARE
TESTING PRODUCTS

QA PARTNER:DISTRIBUTED ALLOWS CONCURRENT, MULTIPLATFORM CLIENT/SERVER
TESTING ACROSS THE NETWORK; QA DBTESTER ALLOWS DIRECT ACCESS AND EXTENDS
AUTOMATED TESTING TO THE DATABASE

NEWTON CENTRE, MA, February 13, 1996-Segue Software, Inc. today announced
two new members of Segue's QualityWorks family of software testing
products. Both new products support distributed testing across hardware
platforms, networks, and operating systems.

"QA Partner:Distributed and QA DBTester leverage QualityWork's open
architecture and agent technology to support the testing of heterogeneous
client/server systems," said Tim Perkins, vice president of marketing for
Segue. "QA Partner:Distributed is the only product that allows customers
to conduct concurrent, multiplatform tests across the network, and QA
DBTester is the only product that allows customers to directly validate
information in the database that is used by the application." Both QA
Partner:Distributed and QA DBTester are fully integrated with QA Partner
and QA Planner, as well as the other members of the QualityWorks family.

QA PARTNER:DISTRIBUTED

QA Partner:Distributed supports distributed client/server testing, and
provides functional, configuration, server, stress, and middleware
testing. It provides native support of TCP/IP, IPX/SPX, and NetBIOS, so
that tests from one computing environment can drive tests that run on one
or more target environments. Segue's real-time agent technology makes it
possible for one central point to drive and coordinate concurrent testing
and data collection across the network and multiple platforms. For
example, a client running Windows 95, Windows NT, or Windows 3.1 can drive
tests on a UNIX server.

QA Partner:Distributed automates complex system tests that today require
intensive manual effort. It can coordinate the exact order of test
statements and execute the same test concurrently across many application
components, creating actual multi-user stress and load activity. This
capability enables the orchestration of multi-user functional tests for
systems which contain interdependent workflows. QA Partner:Distributed
also allows and integrates the testing of application components beyond
the graphical interface, such as Remote Procedure Calls (RPCs) and
Application Program Interfaces (APIs), permitting the direct testing of
these application components, regardless of the presence of a Graphical
User Interface.

"QA Partner:Distributed is an important advance to those customers who are
deploying Client/Server applications more sophisticated than one client
talking to a central data source via a LAN," said Perkins. "Today you have
to deal with the interaction of many different components. One change in
any of the components can impact the application. QA Partner:Distributed
allows you to test all the components of the application, regardless of
platform or whether they have a direct GUI interface."

QA DBTESTER

QA DBTester allows direct access to the database, permitting test scripts
to independently access and verify database activities related to the
application under test. It enables direct SQL access to over 35 leading
database environments from within Segue's Visual 4Test language. For
example, tests can be developed to verify that the database is updated
properly or that stored triggers and procedures are executing as required.
QA DBTester also extends Segue's Recovery System, enabling the recovery
and resetting of application data within the database to ensure accurate
unattended testing.

PRICING AND AVAILABILITY

QA DBTester costs $1,495 for all Windows platforms, and $3,495 for UNIX
platforms. Users would run QA DBTester with QA Partner for local database
testing, or with QA Partner:Distributed for database testing across the
network. QA DBTester is available immediately. QA Partner:Distributed is
priced at $4,995 for all Windows platforms, and $10,495 for UNIX.

QA Partner:Distributed and QA DBTester are also available with
QualityWorks:Distributed for Windows and Motif. QualityWorks:Distributed
for Windows and Motif consists3 of QA Partner:Distributed, QA DBTester, QA
Planner, GO!, multiplatform agents, and maintenance, and begins at
$15,000.

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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