RSW Software Inc., the Web testing technology leader and a business unit of Teradyne, Inc. (NYSE: TER), today announced Homes.com, the leading provider of Internet business solutions enabling the real estate industry, has standardized on RSW's e-TEST suite to ensure the reliability and availability of the high-profile, high-volume Homes.com Web site. Now, e-TEST suite provides Homes.com the ability to continually and rapidly verify application scalability and reliability of its sophisticated and robust site.
Utilized by companies such as American Airlines, British Telecom, MCI Worldcom, Sprint PCS and a host of leading dot-com entities, e-TEST suite will enable Homes.com to meet the demand for highly scalable and reliable e-business applications on a constant basis. Homes.com will continually gain significant value from e-TEST suite's accurate and scalable approach to Web application testing, ensuring maximum returns on Homes.com's e-business investment and overall business success.
"We chose e-TEST suite because it allows us to effectively meet the cyclical nature of our business and ensures that our site visitors will consistently experience optimum site performance even at peak periods," said Tim Garnto, Product Manager, Homes.com. "Using e-TEST suite we are confident that our site will properly handle thousands of concurrent users, and will enable us to meet our aggressive site response goals. We were truly impressed with e-TEST suite's ability to rapidly verify application functionality and scalability problems."
Each month over one million consumers visit the Homes.com site seeking for-sale or for-rent properties. It is not unusual for the site to be concurrently accessed by more than 105,000 real estate agents, brokers and home-related information services. Since Homes.com relies solely on its Web site to conduct business, site performance, reliability and availability are extremely sensitive issues.
"Homes.com's Web site is the backbone of their entire business. With an extremely high volume of both business-to-consumer and business-to-business traffic, site robustness and high availability are required at all times," said Steve Caplow, director of marketing and business development, RSW Software. "e-TEST suite will ensure Homes.com site visitors consistently experience optimal site performance."
"Unlike other testing solutions we reviewed, e-TEST suite provides a seamlessly integrated testing environment, and does not require us to get our development engineers involved in writing complicated scripts in order to take advantage of the product's robustness and rich features," continues Garnto. "RSW's e-TEST suite is the ultimate solution for continual load capacity planning and regression testing and provided us with immediate benefits."
Pricing and Availability
e-TEST suite 4.2 pricing begins at $4,995 and runs on Windows-based platforms. Interested parties should contact RSW at 781/993-8500 for additional details, or visit the RSW Web site to download a fully functional trial version of e-TEST suite, at http://www.rswsoftware.com.
About Homes.com
Homes.com, Inc. is the premier Internet business solution provider enabling the real estate industry. The company provides a nexus for the entire real estate industry through offering an integrated set of market-making solutions designed to support next-generation real estate transactions online. These solutions coupled with Homes.com's network of industry professionals create the only online marketplace for real estate. By providing a nexus for the entire real estate industry to conduct transactions from the desktop, Homes.com is a leader in integrated market solutions for the real estate industry. Homes.com's proprietary technology will allow over 105,000 real estate industry professionals in its network to initiate, manage, and close real estate transactions online. The company derives its consumer base from a real estate and home ownership web center at www.homes.com, and delivers these qualified consumers to its network of Web-enabled industry professionals. At Homes.com, users benefit from a single resource of information and content with an integrated and highly personalized experience. From home buying and home selling, to mortgages, relocation and home improvement, Homes.com provides advanced personalization tools to enable users with virtually any home-related resource.
About RSW Software
RSW Software Inc., a unit of Teradyne, Inc. (NYSE: TER), provides organizations the fastest and most accurate e-business application testing solutions, allowing companies to optimize their e-business application performance. RSW Software's development-to-deployment approach to managing Web application quality enables companies to maximize the reliability of their sites and their return on e-business investments. Comprised of hundreds of companies in financial services, communications, retail, and e-commerce, RSW's customer base includes companies such as American Airlines, British Telecom, People's Bank, Countrywide Home Loans, MCI Worldcom, Sprint PCS and a host of leading dot-com entities.
About Teradyne
Teradyne is the world's leading automated testing company whose products and services address the test requirements of a broad range of semiconductors, electronic assemblies, communications systems and software applications. Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, Teradyne had 1999 sales of $1.8 billion. Its stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol TER.
e-TEST is a trademark of RSW Software Inc. in the United States and other countries. All other names are used for identification purposes only and may be trademarks of their respective owners.
“We chose e-TEST suite because it allows us to effectively meet the cyclical nature of our business and ensures that our site visitors will consistently experience optimum site performance even at peak periods”
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