Testcover.com welcomes Business Innovations as Authorized Reseller

Colts Neck, NJ, 17 September 2011 – Testcover.com welcomes Business Innovations as an Authorized Reseller of Testcover.com solutions. International Software Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB) training is the globally-accepted standard for certification of software and system testing professionals, and Business Innovations is the first ISTQB Training Provider in Latin America.

“Our customer base is increasingly global, including multinational corporations and researchers at major universities,” said George Sherwood, CEO, Testcover.com. “We are gratified to be working with Business Innovations to continue expanding that global footprint, supporting Gary Rueda Sandoval and his team in delivering the optimal test design experience for a wide range of users.” The group administration interface described in Testcover.com’s June 2011 release was precisely intended to support Testcover.com resellers such as Business Innovations. Using this interface, resellers can manage subscriptions for their customers with the same capabilities as self-management for Testcover.com’s MNC customers.

About Testcover.com
Testcover.com offers a pairwise, automated, high-performance test case generator that helps testers get the results they need to develop optimal products and services in a fraction of the time, saving time and money on every project. Testcover.com is accessible via the cloud–a software as a service (SaaS) independent test design solution–and its Web Services Description Language (WSDL) interface enables ready integration with existing test tools. Testcover.com was featured at Management World 2011 based on its selection to Stratecast’s 10 To Watch for 2011 and is a Premier Sponsor of VerifyATI. For more information and links to the company’s social media sites visit Testcover.com, dial +1 732 299 4852 or email mgmt@testcover.com.

Testcover.com introduces cloud-based test solution breakthrough: self- management for group subscriptions

Colts Neck, NJ, USA, 11 June 2011 – Testcover.com has introduced self-management for customers with group subscriptions. The company, with several large global multinational corporations as customers, developed and deployed the new group administration interface to serve the needs of administrators with large groups of Testcover.com users.

Testcover.com CEO George Sherwood said, “We see this capability as a significant enhancement to the convenience and efficiency of our service. Now customers can opt in to self-management and get the highest levels of visibility and control.” Sherwood explained a popular feature of self-management: “Customers with multiple software engineers use our group subscriptions to simplify billing and reduce costs. They purchase a number of subscription activation codes for individual engineers in the group. These customers often have development groups that change, with members joining or leaving independent of any overall subscription period, and customers expect a cloud service to handle their changing needs simply and efficiently.” Testcover.com’s new self-management provides these customers the means to assign an unused activation code to an engineer joining the group, and start the subscription at that time. If an engineer leaves, the unused subscription time can be retained in a new activation code for the replacement.

Use of Testcover.com’s new group administration interface is optional, and there is no additional cost for it. The interface allows a designated user to access summary information about the group and to perform several management tasks:

• List available subscription activation codes – show which activation codes have not been used yet.
• Register a new user – select an activation code to register a new user in forms that are prepopulated with group information.
• List active users – show current users and their respective renewal dates.
• Reset password for an active user – choose a new password for an active user and email it to that user.
• Renew subscriptions for active users – extend service for selected users.
• Suspend subscriptions for active users – end service for selected users and transfer remaining subscription time to new activation codes.
• Purchase new subscriptions – generate subscription activation codes for new users.

About Testcover.com
Testcover.com offers a pairwise test case generator that helps testers get the results they need to develop optimal products and services in a fraction of the time, saving time and money on every project. Testcover.com is accessible via the cloud–a software as a service (SaaS) independent test design solution–and its Web Services Description Language (WSDL) interface enables ready integration with existing test tools. Testcover.com was featured at Management World 2011 based on its selection to Stratecast’s 10 To Watch for 2011. For more information and links to the company’s social media sites visit Testcover.com, dial +1 732 299 4852 or email mgmt@testcover.com.

Testcover.com renders industry-leading cloud-based test solution 25% faster

Deploys optimized pairwise search algorithm

Colts Neck, NJ, USA, 11 June 2011 – Testcover.com has announced a performance improvement of up to 25% in its industry-leading cloud-based test case generator service. This improvement is available at no additional cost to all users. Current response time examples are given on the Testcover.com performance statistics page.

Proprietary research conducted by Testcover.com last year found significant response time improvements from an optimization of its search algorithm. Response time was reduced in small search spaces as well as large ones, with greater reductions in the larger search spaces. Testcover.com CEO George Sherwood said, “Users running typical jobs may or may not notice the improvement because our previous response times with the service were so quick, but we have now achieved response time reductions of 25% for large requests.”

The performance of a pairwise test case generator depends on two essential components: the number of test cases produced and the response time for generating them. Practical software engineering tools require an optimal balance between the two. Testcover.com runs an ongoing research program to reduce the number of test cases generated by the service and employs state-of-the art engineering techniques for prompt response times.

Sherwood also noted, “This enhancement reinforces our commitment to continual performance improvement–reducing the number of test cases as well as the response time to generate them.”

About Testcover.com
Testcover.com offers a pairwise test case generator that helps testers get the results they need to develop optimal products and services in a fraction of the time, saving time and money on every project. Testcover.com is accessible via the cloud–a software as a service (SaaS) independent test design solution–and its Web Services Description Language (WSDL) interface enables ready integration with existing test tools. Testcover.com was featured at Management World 2011 based on its selection to Stratecast’s 10 To Watch for 2011. For more information and links to the company’s social media sites visit Testcover.com, dial +1 732 299 4852 or email mgmt@testcover.com.

Innovation Spotlight shines on Testcover.com at TM Forum’s Management World 2011

Selection to Stratecast’s “Rat Pack/10 to Watch for 2011″ leads to appearance at global event

Colts Neck, NJ, USA and Dublin, Ireland | 19 May 2011 – Testcover.com will be in the Innovation Spotlight at the TM Forum’s Management World 2011 in Dublin, Ireland, 23-26 May. Testcover.com was chosen to appear based on its selection by research & consulting firm Stratecast, a division of Frost & Sullivan, to its “OSS/BSS Rat Pack: 10 to Watch for 2011″ report published in December 2010. Stratecast publishes this report annually, selecting 10 companies to watch in the coming year that, per Stratecast, “share characteristics with the original Rat Pack team of Hollywood actors from the mid-1950s including Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford and Joey Bishop. Like its namesake, the companies included in this report are solid performers who work well, both individually and as an ensemble through partnerships, to satisfy the needs of communications service providers (CSPs) worldwide.”

In his remarks at the Innovation Spotlight, Testcover.com CEO George Sherwood is expected to highlight the versatility, performance and Cloud features of Testcover.com’s automated test design service. In a recent interview, Sherwood said: “Testcover.com is meeting the growing need for test design of complex systems, with features and performance for practicing software engineers building real systems. We provide Testcover.com as a Cloud service for easy, up-to-date use, everywhere.”

One example Sherwood is expected to cite at the event illustrates how Testcover.com’s pairwise (or all-pairs) advantage translates into real-world benefit. Faced with more than 205 trillion possible test cases for a feature with 30 inputs, a company was able to cover all 3,915 pairs of test values with only 18 test cases. Pairwise test designs from Testcover.com use far fewer test cases than random selection for comparable coverage.

Sherwood worked 25 years at Bell Labs and AT&T Labs on a variety of hardware, software and service development projects. He is a former district manager in the IP Services Delivery Division at AT&T Labs, responsible for the development of Broadband ISP services for leading communications service providers. Sherwood is the inventor of the Constrained Array Test System (CATS), the first pairwise testing tool to use a so-called “greedy search” algorithm. He has championed innovative test case reduction, faster performance and improved usability in test design tools.

Stratecast names Testcover.com to “Rat Pack/10 to Watch in 2011″

Colts Neck, NJ, USA | 23 January 2011 – Testcover.com announced that it has been named one of a select group of 10 companies termed “The Rat Pack/10 to Watch in 2011″ by Stratecast, a division of Frost & Sullivan. Stratecast announced the news on Twitter.

According to content publicly available at http://stratecast.com, Stratecast names 10 companies each year that embrace what it calls “the Rat Pack mentality,” sharing a number of characteristics with the original Rat Pack team of entertainers from the mid-1950s including Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford and Joey Bishop. Stratecast stated that the suppliers described in the report are  “small, agile, hungry, well-managed companies that are emerging as real competitors to the established elite” and present the market with a host of innovative new concepts and capabilities.

About Testcover.com
Testcover.com offers a pairwise test case generator that helps testers get the results they need to develop optimal products and services in a fraction of the time, saving time and money on every project. Testcover.com is accessible via the cloud–a software as a service (SaaS) independent test design solution–and its Web Services Description Language (WSDL) interface enables ready integration with existing test tools. For more information visit Testcover.com, dial +1 732 299 4852 or email mgmt@testcover.com.

Quality Testing publishes interview on pairwise testing with Testcover.com CEO George Sherwood

Testcover.com service ideally suited to agile development

Colts Neck, NJ, USA | 22 November 2010 – Quality Testing, the world’s leading and fastest-growing social network and resource center for the software testing/QA community, interviewed Testcover.com CEO George Sherwood on the importance of pairwise testing generators. Quality Testing has published the content of the interview throughout its site including an overview on the Quality Testing home page, an appearance on the Quality Testing Featured Interviews page and a unique site page dedicated to the full interview. Quality Testing also published the interview on PRLog.org.

About Quality Testing
Quality Testing (QT) is the world’s leading and fastest-growing social network and resource center for the software testing/QA community where quality and testing professionals can meet and share best practices about software testing. QT is compatible with all popular web browsers and also offers an iPhone interface so the growing global testing community can access QT on the go. For more information visit the Quality Testing website.

About Testcover.com
Testcover.com offers a pairwise test case generator that helps testers get the results they need to develop optimal products and services in a fraction of the time, saving time and money on every project. Testcover.com is accessible via the cloud–a software as a service (SaaS) independent test design solution–and its Web Services Description Language (WSDL) interface enables ready integration with existing test tools. For more information visit Testcover.com, dial +1 732 299 4852 or email mgmt@testcover.com.

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Testcover.com performance research: A five-year summary

Colts Neck, NJ, USA | 25 October 2010 – Testcover.com released a summary of the company’s research activities during the last five years. The report is reprinted below for Testcover.com NEWS.

Introduction

The performance of a pairwise test case generator depends on two essential components: the number of test cases produced and the response time for generating them. Practical software engineering tools require an optimal balance between the two. A quick response with many test cases may present the test team with unnecessary work. On the other hand, a fast-paced development organization needs tools that can keep up. For this reason, Testcover.com’s research program involves ongoing improvements to both components, and the examples on our performance page report both.

Testcover.com’s research results are of interest to software engineering practitioners as well as researchers. Although some work is proprietary, we have shared many results in peer-reviewed publications and in conference presentations. This summary reports on Testcover.com’s research activities over the last five years and the impact of this work on service performance–number of test cases and response time.

Proprietary research

WSDL interface. In early 2010 Testcover.com introduced its WSDL interface to enable integration with other test tools. Although performance improvement was not the main objective, this WSDL implementation offers even faster response times compared with the HTML interface. When coupled with a test automation tool, the service has the potential to save even more time in the test design and execution process.

Test case search improvement. Unpublished research conducted this year has found significant response time improvements from an optimization of our search algorithm. Response time is reduced in small search spaces as well as large ones, with bigger reductions in the larger search spaces. Current plans call for introduction of the improvement in 2011.

Test case reduction. Testcover.com runs an ongoing research program to reduce the number of test cases generated by the service. For example, at STAREAST 2005 we demonstrated our results generating test cases for an HTML form. Test values were selected for 21 test factors, and 63 test cases were generated. Since this example was first shown, its results have been improved to 59 test cases (a reduction of more than 6%). The service has had thousands of such improvements in the last five years.

“Why WSDL?” Testcover.com CEO George Sherwood answers the question

Colts Neck, NJ, USA | 24 October 2010 – Testcover.com NEWS spoke with CEO George Sherwood about Testcover.com’s WSDL interface and how it advances software test design.

Q: What is WSDL?

A: WSDL (pronounced wiz-del) is a standard XML-based language for web services. Our WSDL interface enables other test tools to access the Testcover.com service and create test designs.

Q: Why did Testcover.com develop its WSDL interface?

A: There are so many ways to use pairwise testing, and so many good test tools already in use, that it made the most sense for testers. Customers already have invested in specialized tools for test automation, database testing, embedded software testing, and more. Developers of these tools can enhance their value by including pairwise technology through the WSDL interface. At the same time, the customer’s investment in current tools and training is preserved.

Q: When should I use WSDL?

A: Testcover.com offers two interfaces to the service, one using WSDL and the other HTML. With our HTML form interface, a user can design test cases using only a browser. The service is available wherever the internet goes, and no additional software is needed. As an XML-based language, WSDL offers improved transparency. In addition, our WSDL implementation offers even faster response times compared with the HTML interface.

Testcover.com announces pairwise testing for state machines

Colts Neck, NJ, USA | 23 October 2010 – Testcover.com today announced support for pairwise testing of finite state machines. The company has provided test models, procedures and examples on its website to support this powerful capability. Software developers who use state machines to model their systems now have a direct way to generate test cases with pairwise coverage.

Pairwise (or all-pairs) testing is a software test design method that includes all pairs of test values in the set of test cases. Engineers use pairwise designs to test complex software systems with a minimal number of test cases. The technique has been used to generate configurations, input data and database tables for testing. Now users can consistently apply pairwise testing to the behavior of a system, not just its configurations and data values. Testcover.com CEO George Sherwood said, “This is an important innovation for practicing software engineers. It combines the efficiency of pairwise testing with the state machine’s precise description of system behavior.”

Testcover.com’s online examples demonstrate pairwise testing both for traditional finite state machines as well as for UML state machines with multiple regions. “We chose the examples in our tutorial to show practicality and versatility,” Sherwood said. “One example uses a traditional finite state machine to represent high-level states (idle, production or test) of an application running on either of two networked hosts. Cases are designed to test a simple control program that selects a database and starts the application. Another example–a simplified thermostat–shows the method’s versatility. Test cases are created from a UML state machine diagram with three regions, for setting the temperature, and for controlling the temperature and fan. Different test models are defined here to meet different testing objectives.”

Testcover.com offers 30-day trial in SQE’s Better Software Magazine

Colts Neck, NJ, USA | 07 October 2010 – Testcover.com has put a 30-day trial of the world’s best pairwise test case generator at the fingertips of Better Software Magazine readers. On page 20 of BSM’s September/October issue, adjacent to an article by Microsoft’s BJ Rollison entitled Simplify Your Combinatorial Testing, Testcover.com provided an Activation Code for the trial. Readers can visit the Testcover.com site, click the large graphic marked BSM 30-DAY TRIAL, input the code and in seconds begin using the full Testcover.com service.

To use the service the user simply chooses which test factors are required and the Testcover.com generator produces the test cases that cover all pairs of test factor values, minimizing the number of test cases and maximizing test efficiency with a statistically complete test plan. Compared to other methods, such as using orthogonal arrays or typical pairwise testing generators, Testcover.com provides significant advances in test case efficiency, response time and ease of use.

About Testcover.com
Testcover.com offers a pairwise test case generator that helps testers get the results they need to develop optimal products and services in a fraction of the time, saving time and money on every project. Testcover.com is a software as a service (SaaS) independent test design solution and its Web Services Description Language (WSDL) interface enables ready integration with existing test tools. For more information visit http://testcover.com, dial +1 732 299 4852 or email mgmt@testcover.com.