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SQA Inc.'s TeamTest 3.0 emerged as the hands-down winner in PC Week Labs' tests of three Windows-based software test-automation products. Comprehensive software testing should involve many interrelated tasks, including test […]

Debugging Tools Tame Overwrite Bugs C-Debug, MemCheck Insert Debugging Statements Directly into a Program's Source Code -------------------- By Peter Schulz One of the most difficult problems for developers to debug […]

Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc. is dedicated to improving the quality of life by researching and delivering innovative health care products. A case in point: the company's highly publicized male impotence […]

If it managers learned anything from the year 2000 problem, it's the need to maintain better control over their organization's desktops. That's why Y2K utility developer Greenwich Mean Time is […]

AtasiSoft Inc., which makes software to cure year 2000 compliance problems for PC applications, is offering PC users a free copy of its new data file repair utility for a […]

Heading into the final months of 1999, year 2000 problems caused by user programming via the date function in Microsoft Corp.'s Excel will rekindle a persistent dilemma for IT managers. […]

Labs'-Eye View: jtest 3.0 beta By Timothy Dyck August 9, 1999 The benefits Java brings to business application developers are significant and numerous. Java's automatic memory management, its large set […]

Business Sense By PC Week Staff August 9, 1999 At nearly $3,500 per seat, jtest 3.0 is not an easy purchase. In many organizations, however, it could pay for itself […]

ParaSoft's jtest 3.0 unifies Java testing Upgrade can accelerate productivity and boost software quality with its automatic unit checking By Martin Heller For PC Week Labs August 9, 1999 Parasoft […]

Tools keep data on the move HardBall, Ardent, Carleton pitch wares to extract, move and morph data By Mark Hammond August 2, 1999 A trio of data movement software developers […]

Labs'-Eye View: SilkPerformer 3.0 By Timothy Dyck July 26, 1999 There's something incredibly seductive about automated testing tools like Segue Software's SilkPerformer. 'Testing' and 'mission-critical' are words that belong in […]

Business Sense: SilkPerformer 3.0 By PC Week Staff July 26, 1999 Automated testing of Web sites and applications isn't a silver bullet, but developers are living dangerously if they fail […]

SilkPerformer tests Web-site fabrics Segue's far-reaching testing package delves into database connections, diverse Web-related apps By Jim Rapoza, PC Week Labs July 26, 1999 SilkPerformer 3.0 gives companies a powerful […]

Norton catches more bugs By PC Week Staff July 19, 1999 Symantec Corp., of Cupertino, Calif., released Norton 2000 Corporate Edition 2.0, software to help fix Y2K issues on corporate […]

Segue Software Inc. plans to ship this month upgraded diagnostic and testing tools that will make it easier for customers to assess the performance of their CORBA-based computing environments. SilkObserver […]

Artisan Software Tools Inc. and Rational Software Corp. are each readying new versions of their modeling tools with real-time application support and database process modeling capabilities, respectively. Artisan has added […]

Wavetek Wandel Goltermann may be late for the year 2000 ball with the introduction of 2000 NetCheck, but the suite will be as useful after the millennium as it is […]

Even if a company hasn't already begun year 2000 remediation, 2000 NetCheck isn't likely to help much. While it may be a novel approach to sniff packet data for incorrect […]

Wavetek Wandel Goltermann's 2000 NetCheck 1.0 arrived late to the year 2000 party, but it will still be around after most of the guests have gone home. Network managers who […]

Oracle developers can speed their work while improving their code with Quest Software Inc.'s SQL Navigator 3.1, an IDE that debugs and tunes code smoothly from within a friendly and […]

Despite the seven bugs found in the latest version of Visual Studio, the application development tool suite will be a highlight at Microsoft Corp.'s Professional Developers Conference this week as […]

Intelliquis and Eurosoft Ltd. are bundling their year 2000 desktop tools in a package called Fix2000. Fix2000 includes year 2000 scan and repair tools for the operating system, applications, and […]

Two health care organizations are trying to head off year 2000 problems in their businesses by licensing Thinking Tools Inc.'s Think 2000 software. Valley Children's Hospital, in Fresno, Calif., and […]

Automated testing for web applications has made Ralph Pellecchia a very happy man. Back in 1995, when $13 billion financial giant Merrill Lynch & Co. was planning an Internet-based service […]

Although they are important, testing tools are just one part of the development process. Other products, such as debuggers and source-code management systems, play as vital a role as testing […]

Leaving no stone, window, database object or ActiveX control unturned, both Segue Software Inc.'s QualityWorks 4.0 and SQA Inc.'s SQA Suite TeamTest Edition 5.1 make it easy to deliver software […]

Segue Software Inc. is expanding its line of testing tools with three new products that streamline client/server testing. Segue released QA Partner 4.0, an object-oriented regression test tool; QA Organizer, […]

Tool vendors are launching this month new testing tools for client/server applications. SQA Inc., of Woburn, Mass., is shipping its first 32-bit testing tool, SQA Suite 5.0. The suite supports […]

Internet Pure Software Inc. this month started shipping its PurePerformix/Web, a tool for load testing multiuser Web applications. The product works by emulating large numbers of users across an enterprise […]

Soffront Software Inc.'s Track 3.2 is sold under the label 'defect tracking and technical support database.' We'd prefer an affirmative term such as 'quality assurance support system,' but by any […]

Segue Software Inc. is shipping this month QualityWorks, a suite of software testing tools for client/server applications. The core component of the package is QA Partner, which allows developers to […]

Easing access to the peak performance of its Pentium line of chips, Intel Corp.'s VTune code-profiling tool has an intuitive user interface and a built-in source-code optimization adviser. Available since […]

Pesky C/C++ program errors such as freed-object references, redundant object deletions, and memory overruns were trapped and quickly identified during our tests of Borland International Inc.'s new CodeGuard for Borland […]

IS organizations searching for a straightforward cross-platform GUI test tool for their quality-assurance engineers and programmers should evaluate Segue Software Inc.'s QA Partner 3.0. This June release gains an easier […]

SAN FRANCISCO -- Three development-tool vendors have rolled out new and upgraded products aimed at helping developers understand their source code. TakeFive Software Inc. upgraded its Sniff+ Unix-based development environment […]

Released late last month, Microsoft Test 3.0 is timed to catch the now-breaking wave of Microsoft Corp.'s Windows NT 3.5 platform and Visual C++ 2.0 development system. Even if it […]

Mercury Interactive Corp. this summer will ship three Windows testing tools as part of a strategy to cover all aspects of the client/server testing process. For client testing, Mercury will […]

Segue Software Inc. has released an upgrade to its QA Partner testing tool that offers hooks to additional development tools and is designed to be easier to use. Release 2.0 […]

After building links between its PVCS version-control system and most major development tools, Intersolv Inc. is teaming up with vendors of bug-tracking and quality-assurance products. Intersolv, of Rockville, Md., announced […]

SunPro is shipping a suite of new and enhanced development tools for its Solaris operating system, including a debugger for multithreaded applications. The tools, released late last month, are bundled […]

Nu-Mega Technologies Inc. has beefed up its Bounds-Checker for Windows, an error-checking tool with logging capabilities and expanded coverage of the Windows API. Version 2.0 of Bounds-Checker for Windows, which […]

With the recent upgrade of Test for Windows, Microsoft Corp. has brought visual programming and client/server capabilities to its Windows application-testing tool. Version 2.0 of Test lets developers visually build, […]

The Software Edge Inc. is set for the national launch of its Windows-based defect-tracking system, aimed at helping software engineers stamp out bugs and monitor the progress of development projects. […]

The Periscope Co. Inc. this month will begin shipping WinScope, a development and debugging tool for Windows applications. WinScope runs behind an application and captures API (application programming interface) calls, […]

The flexibility that endears graphical environments to end users is the very thing that thwarts developers at software-testing time. Customizable interfaces and multiple input devices give developers much to test […]

To help put a lid on programming errors, Pure Software Inc. recently took the wraps off Purify 2, a more flexible upgrade to its error-detection tool. Introduced at the Object […]

Beefed-up debug tool traps subtle errors Most C and C++ programmers could use a tool like Nu-Mega Technologies Inc.'s Bounds Checker 2.0 to help flag common programming errors. Bounds Checker, […]

SOFT-ICE EXCELS AS A WINDOWS DEBUGGING TOOL SOFT-ICE/W PROVIDES INFORMATION ON THE INTERNAL WORKINGS OF WINDOWS, SUCH AS AN APPLICATION'S SOURCE CODE AND TASK LISTS. -------------------- By Larry J. Seltzer […]

By Cara A. Cunningham Nu-Mega Technologies Inc. last month began shipping a version of its source-code-level debugger for Windows' enhanced-mode environment. Soft-ICE/W allows users to debug not only Windows applications […]