HiSoftware Inc. Joins Mercury Interactive’s Open Architecture Program

Planned Integration of HiSoftware’s AccVerify with Mercury Interactive’s TestDirector Will Track Web Sites for Section 508 or W3C® Accessibility Compliance

Concord, NH. – November 26, 2001 – HiSoftware Inc., a leader in Web site accessibility solutions, today announced it has joined Mercury Interactive Corporation’s Open Architecture Program (OAP) and will integrate AccVerify, a solution which verifies that Web sites are in compliance with accessibility standards for Web-based information, with Mercury Interactive's Test Director®, a global test management solution for organizing and managing the testing process.

The integration will enable project teams to verify Web site accessibility in compliance with Section 508 and W3C® “Priority 1” accessibility guidelines from the initial design stage through final testing. As a result, project managers will be able to assign resources easily for Section 508 remediation work, ensuring that Web sites remain in compliance. The integration will provide a simple, cost-effective way to ensure that Web sites meet U.S. federal standards for accessibility.

HiSoftware accessibility solutions are the only solutions that give project managers the ability to track the accessibility status of a Web project and supervise the workflow of project workers. The History feature also allows project managers to create custom filtered reports by characteristics of the project, so that reports contain only the information the user wants to see.

“The integrated solution will bring automation of accessibility to the Webmaster who uses TestDirector for tracking the accessibility requirements of multiple Web servers, and makes managing accessibility more efficient,” said Robert B. Yonaitis, CEO and President of HiSoftware.

“Organizations like HiSoftware can take advantage of Mercury Interactive’s Open Architecture Program to deliver an optimized solution to its customers,” said Jim Hare, Director of Strategic Alliances at Mercury Interactive. “The combination of HiSoftware’s Web site accessibility solution and Mercury Interactive’s global test management solution will enable HiSoftware to integrate test planning, test scheduling, test execution, and defect tracking into a single solution.”

AccVerify's Accessibility Recorder and History database work with TestDirector to allow users to identify the accessibility status of a Web project on demand for a specific point in time, or to track the progress of the project over time. The user can identify “phases” of the project by author, time, date, department, and more.


TestDirector and Open Architecture Program
TestDirector is an integrated management tool for organizing and managing the testing process. By combining planning, execution, defect tracking with an open architecture and a central repository, TestDirector consolidates and manages the testing process to determine application readiness.
The Open Architecture Program is a dynamic ecosystem of the leading application development, testing and performance management tool vendors. Through the OAP, Mercury Interactive is partnering with leading vendors whose products and services can help our customers build and maintain better applications. At the enterprise level, successful application testing and deployment require a combination of tools from many different vendors. Mercury Interactive's Open Test Architecture provides the flexibility to seamlessly integrate Mercury Interactive's testing tools with any other tool. By allowing IT organizations to create their own test solutions, Open Test Architecture not only preserves their investment in existing tools, but also improves test process effectiveness throughout the application development lifecycle. Open Test Architecture Alliance members are leading tools vendors who are seamlessly integrating their tools with TestDirector, LoadRunner® for load testing, and WinRunner® for functional testing to provide IT organizations with a complete enterprise solution.


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TestDirector, WinRunner and LoadRunner are registered trademarks of Mercury Interactive Corporation, Sunnyvale, California.


 

ABOUT HISOFTWARE
HiSoftware Company, the leader in enterprise content quality management solutions, provides innovative products that empower quality assurance teams, content developers, Web site architects, and company executives to work collaboratively on their efforts to create and manage corporate Web standards for Accessibility, Privacy, Searchability, Usability and custom guidelines and policies. HiSoftware’s integrated, full lifecycle solutions dramatically reduce the time required to test, manage and deploy e-business Web sites.

HiSoftware works closely with industry leaders and visionaries to provide solutions for today's information accessibility, content quality, search and retrieval needs. HiSoftware’s customers represent Fortune 500 companies, and many of the largest e-commerce, government, and educational sites in North America and around the world and include ChevronTexaco, Commerce One, Mercury Interactive, and Microsoft Government.

Founded in 1998, HiSoftware Company maintains North American corporate headquarters in Concord, New Hampshire. Further information about HiSoftware can be found online at www.hisoftware.com

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