Software-quality tools focus on concurrency

13.12.2005

Worksoft on Tuesday is unveiling a refreshed version of its Certify automated software testing product, featuring the ability to scale to large groups of users and a new user interface.

Featuring test management, test automation and a test framework, Certify Enterprise 7.0 scales to thousands of developers, quality assurance analysts, and business analysts when used in distributed, collaborative development efforts. Previously, the product was limited to approximately 70 to 100 users in such an environment.

"It's a complete refresh of our technology and stack," said Linda Hayes, CTO at Worksoft.

Certify differs from competitor products in that it does not require use of a scripting language; thus people with a domain expertise, such as business analysts, are able to use it because development skills are not required, Hayes said. "It's one of the problems that our software solves."

"What we've done is we built a data model that describes an application and allows a user to build a test through just a GUI," Hayes said.