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STRESSED-OUT SOFTWARE
AND GOOD QA TEAMS GO TOGETHER

Although anyone can hit keys or breeze through dialogs, it takes real skill to discover bugs hidden deep in the software. Skills such as lateral thinking, propped up by hunches, intuition and a deep understanding of the product

Putting their ideas and hunches to the test is the easy part. But for many QA teams, it's what they spend most of their time doing. Over and over again.

Until time runs out and the QA team has to deal with many last minute changes and are forced to take short-cuts.

That's when the errors creep in. So the software gets an easy life - unlike your customers, technical support team and your product's reputation

So isn't it time you let your QA team get on with real QA. Such as developing comprehensive test suites to cover all situations.

Give them the Evaluator FT and let it get on with the tests. Then replay them as often as you need.

So your software - not your team - is stressed to breaking point.

It's what computer assisted software testing is all about.

And it's time you took advantage of it.

10 WAYS TO GET MORE FROM QA -USING EVALUATOR FT

Evaluator FT speeds up QA testing by automatically generating test scripts - which can be customized later - and replaying them throughout the regression cycle. You can get extensive reports of any deviations it finds. Use the Evaluator FT across a wide range of operating systems: it's the perfect solution for testing stand-alone PCs, networks, minis and mainframes.

• RECORD AND GENERATE SCRIPTS

  No need to write scripts from scratch. Just record the initial test and let the Evaluator generate the necessary script.

• REPLAY FOR FASTER REGRESSION

  Use the generated script to replay tests whenever the software gets updated.

• TAILOR SCRIPTS WITH THE C TOOLKIT

  Scripts are generated in ANSI C. Use Evaluator's C Toolkit to customize the scripts to your own specification.

• UPDATE SCRIPTS EASILY

  Add commands to existing scripts, combine test scripts, or even record further steps from any point in the original script.

• OBTAIN COMPREHENSIVE REPORTS

  Evaluator generates reports detailing a list of errors it finds and the time and duration of the appropriate test. You can customize reports to obtain more detailed information.

• CONTROL MULTIPLE WORKSTATIONS

  The Evaluator can test across multiple work stations simultaneously, so you can test against different configurations in a fraction of the time it woutd normally take.

• PERFORM BENCHMARKING EXERCISES

  Measure application response times - such as disk access, hour-glass display and graphics redraw.

• CONDUCT NON-INTRUSIVE TESTING

  Evaluator is hardware assisted, so it gives you non-intrusive testing. This means no code is loaded when Evaluator runs, so it won't affect the software being tested.

• MANAGE TEST DEVELOPMENT EFFICIENTLY

  Evaluator makes it easy to build a library of test routines, so you can re-use them across different applications. You get more out of the time you put into test development.

• OBJECT ORIENTED TESTING

  Create multi-platform tests, portable across Windows, NT, OS/2 and Motif. Test non-standard graphics and custom controls.

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  HOW EVALUATOR FT GETS YOU FASTER QA RESULTS

  The Evaluator PT is a hardware-assisted software testing system. This gives you a number of advantageous features not usually found with other software testing solutions

• Non-intrusive testing - no code is loaded on the target so the Evaluator does not affect the behaviour of the system.

• On-board image processing - allows both bitmap and fuzzy comparisons, including pattern and feature extraction.

• Icon searching and pattern matching engine -Evaluator can re-adjust the mouse and keyboard input for correct and reliable playback. Vital in mouse intensive applications such as graphic packages or those relying heavily on drag-and-drop.

• Faster playback and real-time testing - scripts are played back at event level, such as choosing a menu or manipulating a dialog, so testing is faster than with normal methods. Vet you can continue to make decisions based on application responses.

• Device I/O embedded system testing - Evaluator FT can capture and test PC I/O streams such as disk, serial, IEEE-488, printer and network I/O allowing device driver testing.