RSW Software to Extend Best of Breed Full Life Cycle Web Application Testing Solution With Microsoft VBA Functionality

Business Wire, Oct 16, 2000

Business/Technology Editors

WALTHAM, Mass. & REDMOND, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 16, 2000

Empirix Business Unit To Include Microsoft VBA Technology With

e-TEST Suite To Address Advanced Web Application Testing Needs

RSW Software, the e-business application testing technology leader and a business unit of Empirix Inc., today announced the licensing of Microsoft(R) Visual Basic(R) for Applications (VBA) for inclusion in the next release of its world-class Web application testing technology, e-TEST(TM) suite. RSW's e-TEST suite is a powerful, easy-to-use solution for automatically testing the scalability and reliability of Web-based applications throughout the application life cycle. With the inclusion of VBA in e-TEST suite, RSW will provide its customers the ability to easily extend and customize RSW's solutions to meet the testing requirements of even the most challenging and complex e-business applications. In addition, by extending RSW's e-TEST suite with Microsoft's VBA 6.0 support, customers will now be able to more easily integrate automated testing and monitoring in their application development and deployment processes.

"Microsoft applauds RSW Software for its ongoing commitment to improve Web application testing extensibility through its integration of VBA," said Robert Green, group product manager, .NET Tools and Services Division at Microsoft Corporation. "With the inclusion of VBA in e-TEST suite, RSW is enhancing its best-of-breed testing products by delivering premier scripting and customization technology that enables companies to optimize their e-business application investments."

In keeping with RSW's commitment to continually enhance Web developer's testing and performance monitoring capabilities, the inclusion of Microsoft VBA now further enables developers to extend e-TEST suite by taking advantage of the industry standard application development environment to easily create complex, customized test scripts.

RSW's customers will derive several benefits from RSW's distribution of VBA with e-TEST suite:

-- Customization - Microsoft's VBA enables e-TEST suite users to easily create
tailored, advanced testing and monitoring scripts utilizing an industry
standard solution.

-- Leverage - Over 3 million Visual Basic-fluent programmers can now leverage
their existing VBA expertise to enhance the functionality of e-TEST suite's
Visual Scripts utilizing the VBA development environment.

-- Integration - By including VBA in e-TEST suite, QA managers and Web
application developers can now seamlessly launch the VBA development
environment to create, edit and debug test scripts in e-TEST suite.

Since the initial introduction of e-TEST suite, RSW Software has continuously enhanced the product to create the best possible automated Web application testing solution for its customers, and licensing and distributing VBA is a continuation of this effort. RSW's e-TEST suite has been designed to address the unique quality management requirements of Internet and Intranet application development with a seamlessly integrated, development-through-deployment solution to Web testing, and features:

-- e-Tester(TM)for functional and regression testing

-- e-Load(TM)for load/scalability testing

-- e-Monitor(TM)for testing the continuous availability of

applications after deployment

All three are powered by RSW's unique Visual Script(TM) technology that drives all facets of testing with a common set of scripts that can now be extended with the power of VBA.

"By integrating VBA into our e-TEST suite, customers, Web developers and partners alike can leverage and extend the functionality of e-TEST suite and VBA to create a comprehensive quality and performance management processes," said Steve Caplow, director of marketing and business development, RSW Software, a business unit of Empirix. "Combining the ease-of-use of RSW's Visual Scripting approach with the power and flexibility of VBA, customers now have the best of both worlds and can easily ensure the quality and scalability of their Web applications."

About RSW Software

RSW Software, a business unit of Empirix, provides organizations the fastest and most accurate e-business application testing solutions, allowing companies to optimize their e-business application performance. RSW Software's development-to-deployment approach to managing e-business application quality enables companies to maximize the reliability of their sites and their return on e-business investments. Comprised of hundreds of companies in financial services, communications, retail, and e-commerce, RSW's customer base includes companies such as American Airlines, British Telecom, People's Bank, Countrywide Home Loans, MCI Worldcom, Sprint PCS and a host of leading dot-com entities. For more information please visit www.rswsoftware.com.

About Empirix

Empirix, Inc., the only provider of testing and monitoring products for business-critical Web and voice applications, provides solutions that meet the rigorous quality demands set by the Internet and communications markets. Empirix is committed to developing and delivering industry-leading testing solutions for e-business and networked applications that assure the highest level of performance and scalability. Formed by the powerful combination of RSW Software, Hammer Technologies and SST and funded by Matrix Partners, Empirix provides products and services to more than 1,200 customers worldwide, including Fortune 1000 organizations, leading Bell operating companies, communications manufacturers and major dot-coms. Empirix is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts and has offices in Europe, Asia-Pacific and Japan. For more information, visit Empirix on the Web at www.empirix.com.