CrossTest Announces Partnership with AI Corporation

June 1, 2006 — CrossTest Inc. and A.I. Corporation (AIC) today announced a partnership to deliver test automation solutions to the embedded systems market in Japan. Hiro Kato, Founder and President of AIC, stated "After evaluating the automated testing tools in the embedded systems space we find the CrossTest products achieve the highest level of automation." As per the agreement, AIC will provide sales, marketing, support, and training services around CrossTest products in Japan. Further, AIC will localize, customize, and port CrossTest products to suit the Japanese platform and market requirements. Khalid Sebti, Founder and CEO of CrossTest, noted "We are confident that our Japanese customers will benefit from significant value created as a result of investment in AIC's services and CrossTest products."

AIC is a high tech product distributor and engineering company specializing in embedded system software. Since its founding in 1985, AIC has been committed to representing overseas software ventures to introduce their cutting edge technologies and the products to Japanese customers. AIC represents over 15 software makers to provide nearly 100 embedded software products and solutions to the customers in Japan.

AIC's solutions and products cover a broad range of industries such as consumer electronics devices, automotive, digital office equipment, communication and network equipment, and industrial control and factory automation, and many other industries where embedded microprocessor based systems are running.

For more information, visit the company web site at www.aicp.co.jp.

About CrossTest

CrossTest redefines quality and economics for device software application testing. CrossTest offers Test Automation Systems for device software applications that empower software team to build quality in, instead of rooting bugs out. The CrossTest solution automates the tedium of testing and integrates the various steps in testing – test design, test generation, test execution, regression testing, and results analysis. The benefits are improved quality, faster time-to-market and lower software lifecycle costs.

CrossTest Demonstrates Market Acceptance & Solid Customer Traction

April 25, 2006 — Several customers across different industries (network equipment manufacturers, aerospace and defense, and industrial automation) embraced CrossTest’s Test Automation solution for their mission critical projects. A few of the visionary enterprise customers who have deployed CrossTest are Cisco Systems (network equipment) and Northrop-Grumman (aerospace and defense).

Telecommunications

Cisco Systems embraced CrossTest within their high-end router QA group. Using CrossTest they were able to verify that error checking and reporting within the router software worked as expected. Cisco also used CrossTest’s code coverage feature to ensure robustness of the code through adequate testing.

Aerospace

Northrop-Grumman automated their test infrastructure using CrossTest to design and run their unit tests, and deploy automated regression tests, resulting in significant savings in the test cycles.

CrossTest 2.4 Shipping Now

Based on customer feedback, several new enhancements have been incorporated into the CrossTest solution. CrossTest 2.4 supports:

• Coverage analysis for host and target based testing
• Team based HTML result repository
• Project refresh
• Fully automated cross-platform regression testing

Coverage analysis

CrossTest now supports coverage analysis on the host and target for both C & C++ languages. Coverage analysis is provided for:

• Function coverage: reports whether each function or procedure is invoked. It is useful during preliminary testing to assure at least some coverage in all areas of the software.
• Statement coverage: reports whether each executable statement is encountered.
• Branch coverage: reports whether each branch has been taken or not during the execution of the tests.

HTML test reports

CrossTest 2.4 lets the user generate HTML test reports that provide a detailed analysis of the results of a test run (Tested functions, Pass/Fail Results, Code Coverage results, etc). Test reports can be viewed using Mozilla or IE browsers.

Project refresh

CrossTest now supports refreshing projects’ source code. When the user’s source code is changed, CrossTest determines the impact on the test suite and, when possible, updates the tests on behalf of the user. CrossTest thus integrates very well with the application development life cycle in an enterprise.

Fully automated cross-platform regression testing

CrossTest can now be controlled through a command line interface and integrated into build systems or test environments. CrossTest can also be called from within a shell script file.

CrossTest 2.4 supports C, C++ applications; supports Windows, Linux and Solaris host environments across multiple processors; and is target environment agnostic.

Customer Benefits

The coverage analysis, HTML test reports and batch mode regression testing features help the customers greatly improve the quality of their applications. Customers benefit from faster time-to-market and lower software lifecycle costs owing to the level of testing automation achieved with these features. Further, features like Project Refresh integrate testing tightly with the application development life cycle.

About CrossTest

CrossTest redefines quality and economics for device software application testing. CrossTest offers Test Automation Systems for device software applications that empower software teams to build quality in, instead of rooting bugs out. The CrossTest solution automates the tedium of testing and integrates the various steps in testing — test design, test generation, test execution, regression testing, and results analysis. The benefits are improved quality, faster time-to-market and lower software lifecycle costs