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• Pioneered: automated test capture (recording & low-code) + interpretive playback; regression testing; DOM-based web testing; auto-instrumented code coverage checking; continuous web application monitoring; static and dynamic program analysis technologies.
• Served the testing community for >40 years.

Intellectual
Property

• eValid's foundational web application testing technology has early priority dates.
• A total of 10 Utility Patents issued 2007 ‐ 2021.
• Patents cited by >493 other patents or applications of >120 companies and organizations.
• Referenced by USPTO in examiner rejections of >278 patent applications and cited specifically by the USPTO examiner in >66 patent applications.

Technology Leader
2000 ‐ 2023

• Pioneered web application testing incorporating test-enabled browsers based on native DOM-based browsing capabilities.
  • Original browser-based client-side web applications testing product: 2000.
  • Software Development Magazine Jolt Award: 2003.
  • Achieved >1,000 eValid product installations worldwide in 2008.
  • Essentially all eValid™ testing technology was functionally incorporated in the W3C WebDriver Standard.
  • The eValid™ User Forum supports users discussions of functional testing, load testing, website scanning, security checking, and performance monitoring.

Software QA &
Test Automation

• Twenty technical conferences in total: fifteen QualityWeek™ (QW 1988-2002); and, fiveQualityWeek/Europe™(QWE 1998-2002).
• Those conferences advanced and popularized automated testing of desktop and web applications.
• QW/QWE served >10,000 academic and industry leaders in open international technology forums supporting a range of innovative concepts in software testing, quality assurance, performance measurement, and software security and reliability.
• QW/QWE fostered hundreds of professional's careers, including many software testing technology leaders. Overall, there were >1,100 Technical Papers and Presentations presented, vetted by an International Advisory Board of >130 academics and industrial technologists.
• Here is a complete Archive of QW/QWE Proceedings and Tutorial Notes

Technology Leader
1984 - 2002

• Milestones in automated test technology for client-server systems:
  • Automated test recording/playback system for Windows (1984).
  • Automated GUI test capture/playback for XWindows (1990).
  • Branch (C1) test coverage analyzer for C/C++ (1991).
  • Call-pair (Cp) test coverage analyzer for C/C++ (1992).
  • Path test coverage (Ct) analyzer for C/C++ (1993).
  • By 1995 there were >4,000 TestWorks licenses installed at >1,750 sites worldwide.
  • Unified UNIX, XWindows, Microsoft Windows product architecture (1996).
  • Software Magazine Top 500 Award: 1997, 1998, 1999 .
  • Integrated primary QA functions: GUI test capture/playback (Unix & Windows); automated regression testing; intelligent image comparison with OCR; static code analysis: automated code metrics.
• TestWorks™ became a legacy product in 2002.