In a move to broaden its product portfolio, Centerline Software Inc, Cambridge, Massachusetts, has introduced TestCenter, a software development tool that claims to automate quality control during development. TestCenter is the first of a family of development tools to be announced over the course of the next two years, and is designed to enhance code quality and to optimise program memory use, Centerline says. The tool has four main features automatic run-time error detection, which flushes out hard-to-find bugs during coding. Memory leak checking, which enables programmers to build applications with maximum memory requirements from system memory resources; and through graphical test coverage, which makes it possible for programmers to measure the thoroughness of their test runs visually on screen. The tool also enables users to adjust testing priorities and requirements. TestCenter comes with a choice of graphical user interface, Motif or Open Look, and is available for Sun Microsystems Inc Sparcstations now. It is priced at $3,000 – UKP2,500. A version for Hewlett-Packard Co HP-UX will follow in the first quarter of 1994. Meanwhile Centerline is currently developing a test management system for cross system environments. A client-server tool, the software will be able to provide an application high-level and proprietary language and code testing framework for both personal computer Windows- and Unix-based systems. The company says that it will introduce the tool in the second half 1994.
