San Francisco, California-based Software Research Inc has beefed up its X Window-based capture and playback automated software testing tool, Capbak/X, which now includes optical character recognition technology licensed from Xerox Imaging Systems for use in playback mode, enabling the user to find text that has moved to a different place from where it was created, and see pixel images in ASCII. The firm has also modified an X server to provide a virtual display capability so a test can run in the background while the screen is being used for other tasks. Capbak/X is available bundled with the company’s SR’s STW/Regression testing package and is up on most Unix systems priced at from $6,000. Meanwhile, the company has added an STW/Advisor module to its Software TestWorks suite: it comprises an X Window-based metric analysis system, a C static analyser and a test data generator. STW/Advisor is priced from $5,000. The Software TestWorks line is now up on Silicon Graphics Inc workstations.
