SR/TestWorks TECHNOLOGY FIRSTS

SR has a long reputation for being the first to introduce commercial exploitations of important testing technologies. SR can do this through its constant program of research, and through its long association with experts at all levels in the software testing and validation community. Below is a compilation of some of SR's firsts in the software testing market:

• First commercial capture/playback system, CAPBAK, for MS-DOS in 1987.
• First commercial test controller system, SMARTS, for MS-DOS and UNIX in 1987.
• First all-technical high-quality non-commercial conference devoted to software testing, Quality Week 1988 (QW88).
• First commercial test coverage analyzer, TCAT, for C on the NCR Tower-32 in 1988.
• First commercial ASCII-terminal capture/playback system, CAPBAK/UNIX, in 1989.
• First (and, so far, only) commercial true path-coverage analyzer, TCAT-PATH, in 1989.

• First commercial capture/playback system for XWindows, CAPBAK/X, in 1990.
• First commercial captured-image comparator system, EXDIFF, in 1991.
• First commercial test coverage analyzer for C++, TCAT/C++, in 1991.
• First commercial test coverage analyzer to handle multi-tasking and exceptions for Ada and C, TCAT/C and TCAT/Ada, in 1992.
• First software test-tool vendor with over 4000 installed licenses, at over 1750 sites, and supporting well over 10,000 seats, in 1994.
• Full ``C'' language capture/playback technology with CAPBAK/MSW, in 1994.
• Seventh International Software Quality Week conference draws over 600 attendees in 1994.
• Eighth International Software Quality Week draws over 700 in 1995.
• First full test suite available for all Windows platforms, Windows 3.1x, Windows '95, and Windows NT (3.5x, 4.x) in 1995.
• Ninth International Software Quality Week draws over 800 in 1996.
• TestWorks is the first family of integrated test suite solutions for embedded, GUI and Client/Server Applications on UNIX and on Windows platforms, in 1996.
• First full-featured Test Coverage Analysis Tool (TCAT) for SunSoft's Java (tm) language.
• Tenth International Software Quality Week (San Francisco, May) draws over 850 in 1997.
• First demonstration of SR's proprietary Remote Testing Technology with over-the-Web collection of test coverage data from instrumented Java applets.
• First International Software Quality Week/Europe (Brussels, November 1997) draws over 200.