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Aberro
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ROCKVILLE, MD - May 8, 2006 –– Responding to the industry need to improve software quality, Aberro today announced general availability of AberroTest. AberroTest is an automated functional testing tool for developers and quality assurance (QA) teams who want to get an early jump on testing Windows and Web-based applications. AberroTest utilizes Adaptive Automated Testing, a radical new approach to functional testing that enables automation far earlier in the development cycle than any other technique. AberroTest allows defects to be found sooner and repaired quicker, improving overall software quality.

Today, development organizations build software faster than they can adequately test it. Alternative solutions to AberroTest — traditional automation tools — require time-consuming test development and programming skills that most testers don’t possess. Additionally, changes to the application being tested significantly drive up test maintenance costs. These solutions can’t test early in the development cycle—a time when defects can be corrected quickly and inexpensively. Due to the limitations in current automated test products, over 80% of functional test is performed manually, and for new software, this percentage is even greater.

Bocada®, the leading provider of data protection management software, selected AberroTest to automate the functional testing process. “We had over 3,800 manual test sequences to go through. This was an extremely painful process, and due to the complexity of our application, other test automation products couldn’t support us,” said Cherish Adams, Bocada’s QA manager, who guided the evaluation process. “AberroTest allows us to automate our testing much earlier. We are able to obtain what we thought was unobtainable—cost-effective automation from the very first integration test all the way through to the product release.”

UNIQUE, PATENT-PENDING APPROACH PROVIDES UNPRECEDENTED TESTING CAPABILITIES

AberroTest leverages Adaptive Automated Testing, Aberro’s patent-pending approach to software test automation. The result of a multiyear research effort, Adaptive Automated Testing generates tests on the fly in reaction to the behavior of the application. Adaptive Automated Testing does not require complex test authoring and is highly resilient to application change.

AberroTest observes the state of and adapts to the behavior of the application. Powerful verification rules and proprietary algorithms allow AberroTest to verify application behavior from the User Interface through to the application data layer. The combination of configurable data input and variations in test execution enable a single test configuration to generate thousands of tests. Each test run exercises a different path through the application, providing the highest test coverage possible. AberroTest requires no programming, scripting, or test authoring of any kind.

“Considering the complexity of today’s software, it’s amazing how much is tested by hand. The gap between the ability of developers to produce code and testers to test that code is widening,” said Aberro CEO Doug Smith. “AberroTest provides the best of both worlds. It delivers the unattended operation and speedy test execution of automation tools coupled with the advantages of code-free, flexible and high-coverage manual test methods.”

Key AberroTest benefits include:

• Shorter Product Development Cycles—AberroTest enables rapid test configuration, and combined with automatic test generation, reduces the time it takes to complete functional testing.
• Cost Savings—By moving defect detection to the front end of the testing cycle, the fix cost is significantly reduced.
• Increased Software Reliability and Quality—The more paths through the application tested, the greater the code coverage and the more defects discovered. AberroTest provides the highest coverage possible of an application, allowing companies to improve overall software quality.
• Ease of Use and Dramatic Simplicity—There is no complex test writing in either code or a scripting language, making it easy for non-programmers to use.
• Increased Productivity—AberroTest completely eliminates the drudgery of maintaining scripts. This enables QA professionals to spend time verifying the application works, not repairing a broken test script.

PRICING AND AVAILABILITY
AberroTest is generally available today and costs approximately $4,000 per seat. Aberro will preview AberroTest in Booth #28 at STAREAST, the world’s largest software testing event, which is being held from May 15–19 in Orlando, Florida.

ABOUT ABERRO
Founded in August 2005, Aberro provides innovative and unique solutions that enable customers to increase the overall reliability of their software while reducing both time to market and development costs. Privately held, Aberro is headquartered in Annapolis, Maryland, and has development and support offices in Austin, Texas. For more information, please visit www.aberrosoftware.com.

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