ECLIPSECON, Burlingame, CA, March 1, 2005 – The Eclipse Test and Performance Tools Platform (TPTP) Top-Level Project today announced significant momentum in advancing the TPTP Platform through increased adoption and contribution.  TPTP continues to attract a wealth of new contributing companies that provide unique and valuable collaborative power. New contributors include Computer Associates, which joined in December and was appointed to lead the TPTP Monitoring Tools, one of the four projects in TPTP, and OC Systems, Inc., a provider of application performance tools and services, which announces its involvement with TPTP today and will release an add-in later this year.

 

“We are extremely pleased by the level of participation from such diverse companies. The TPTP Project brings together market-leading test and performance tools vendors along with highly innovative, smaller vendors and technology organizations," said Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation, Inc. “We look forward to further growth from this Eclipse Top-Level Project and to wider market adoption of the TPTP platform as a unifying platform for testing and performance tools.”

 

IBM and Scapa Technologies have already released TPTP-based products.

Computer Associates, Intel Corporation and OC Systems have discussed publicly plans to use TPTP-based technology. Scapa Technologies built its application performance testing, diagnosis and monitoring product, Scapa

Test and Performance Platform 3.1 on TPTP. IBM's offerings on TPTP include

Rational Functional Tester, Rational Manual Tester, Rational Application

Developer and Rational Software Architect.

 

The TPTP project continues to gain momentum within the IT industry as a whole.  “[TPTP] will reshape the testing and monitoring tools market,” noted Carey Schwaber, research associate, in What Hyades Means For IBM, Its Customers, And Its Competitors, Forrester Research, Inc., October, 2004. “As more vendors standardize on [TPTP], the result will be better tool integration, easier tool customization, increased tool choice, and less vendor lock-in. This will be a boon for users and a force for change in the industry.  Users should expect – and demand – that their tools use [TPTP]."

 

Building on the recent TPTP 3.2 release, the TPTP roadmap calls for continuous expansion of new capabilities and enhancements, including another major release, TPTP 4.0, in mid-2005.  Key enhancements to be delivered include broadening the platform’s reach by integrating more open source technologies such as JUnit, and supporting additional operating systems and hardware platforms. In addition, TPTP 4.0 will include life-cycle management tools that target large organizations and improve scalability in handling high data volume.

 

“One of our goals when launching the TPTP Project was to expand the scope and adoption of the Eclipse Hyades Project, now TPTP. To achieve this, we set our sights on attracting new contributors from a wide a range of stakeholders,” said Tyler Thessin, project lead for the Eclipse TPTP Project and engineering manager for Intel Software Development Products. “We are encouraged by recent growth in contributors and commitment levels from large and small companies, and we aim to drive further development and adoption of the project with innovation from current and new contributors.”

 

Companies contributing to the TPTP Project include Computer Associates, Compuware, Fraunhofer Institute (FOKUS), IBM, Intel, OC Systems, SAP and Scapa Technologies.

 

About Eclipse Test & Performance Tools Platform Project

The Eclipse Test and Performance Tools Platform (TPTP) Project provides an open platform supplying powerful frameworks and services that allow software developers to build unique test and performance tools—both open source and commercial—that can be easily integrated with the platform and with other tools. The TPTP Platform addresses the entire test and performance lifecycle, from early testing to production application monitoring, including test editing and execution, monitoring, tracing and profiling, and log analysis capabilities. The platform supports a broad spectrum of computing systems including embedded, standalone, enterprise, and high-performance and will continue to expand support to encompass the widest possible range of systems. Full details of the Eclipse Test & Performance Tools Platform Project are available at www.eclipse.org/tptp/.

 

About the Eclipse Foundation

The Eclipse Foundation is a not-for-profit member-supported corporation that hosts community based open source projects. Eclipse creates royalty-free technology and a universal platform for development tools integration, modeling, testing and functionally rich application construction. Eclipse-based offerings give developers freedom of choice in a multi-language, multi-platform, multi-vendor supported environment. Eclipse delivers a dynamic plug-in based framework that makes it easier to create and integrate technology, saving time and money. By collaborating and sharing core integration technology, providers can concentrate and focus on areas of expertise and differentiation. The Eclipse Platform is written in the Java language and comes with extensive plug-in construction toolkits and examples. It has already been deployed on a range of development workstations including Linux, HP-UX, AIX, Solaris, QNX, Mac OS X and Windows-based systems. Full details of the Eclipse Foundation and white papers documenting the design of the Eclipse Platform are available at www.eclipse.org.

 

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eclipse@schwartz-pr.com

 

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Multi-Vendor Support Drives Adoption of Eclipse TPTP    March 1st, 2005

Quotes Sheet

 

"Eclipse TPTP is one of the most exciting innovations to come out of the test and performance tools market in the past ten years. The logic behind getting involved with Eclipse TPTP is impeccable and the business case appealing. If you are a test or performance tools vendor and you don't have an Eclipse strategy, you're going to be left behind."

Oliver Cole, president of OC Systems, Inc.

 

"Eclipse TPTP presents organizations with a decision – to adopt the TPTP platform or be locked into buying so-called suites of proprietary poorly-integrated products. Scapa Technologies has aligned its product direction with Eclipse and TPTP, and as a result we find that we can focus on quickly and confidently delivering highly innovative integrated functionality to our customers."

Dr. Michael Norman, CEO, Scapa Technologies

 

“TPTP enhances the capabilities of the original Eclipse Hyades platform substantially and better enables the integration of test tools into the open source test and measurement framework based on Eclipse. We foresee in particular a better integration of TTCN-3 tools into Eclipse which will demonstrate the openness and power of TPTP."

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ina Schieferdecker of the Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems (FOKUS)