Dynasty Technologies Inc, whose three-tier Dynasty Development Environment 3.0 is currently in beta test, has teamed with Mercury Interactive Corp to integrate Mercury’s testing tools with Dynamic Data Exchange. Dynasty’s application programming interface will enable Mercury’s WinRunner and LoadRunner tools to test all the graphical user interface objects created by Dynasty, when version 3.0 rolls out, probably in late August, with a bunch of new features (CI No 2,955). WinRunner is for testing Windows applications and LoadRunner tests client, server and Web load testing. Test scripts are created by using WinRunner from user operations on the various objects, and these scripts can be used to check whether the objects are functioning properly. Dynasty co-founder and chief executive Michael Lyons just stepped aside to enable chief operating officer Mike Wilson to take over (CI No 2,955). He is believed to be steering the Lisle, Illinois company down the road towards flotation on Nasdaq.
