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TALC2000 is based on mature technology
first released in 1989.
This page gives a snapshot of our company history and TALC2000’s
development heritage as well as providing a little insight into
our future development plans.
Visit our Partner Contacts page
for your nearest TALC2000 representative.
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Company Startup
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Brian Bennet had owned and run large software development operations
in Australia for years. His businesses successfully developed software
for large mainframe and mid range platform customers. His biggest
bug bear was testing, particularly systems acceptance and regression
testing.
The problem with testing was that the software developers themselves
didn’t make particularly good testers and the testing tools available
were too complex for the business analysts and applications users who
did.
To solve the problem Brian decided to use all his experience from
running and owning software development operations to develop a
solution. So in 1988 he started Tallecom Software
in Queensland, Australia.
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Automated Testing Tool Philosophy
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The test tool design philosophy is simple.
"The test automation tool must be simple to use, simple
to learn and functionally powerful both in testing capability and
performance."
This design philosophy has never changed. We are proud that while
many of the testers using the TALC tools are highly skilled software
programmers the majority are business analysts and business
application users who have little or no programmer skills
and training.
To ensure this continues we have some very talented people who
oversee TALC2000’s development. Responsibility for usability and
ease of use of the tool is separated from responsibility for
maintaining and enhancing its rich testing functionality.
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Future development plans.
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Nearing completion TALC Test Lead, a Test Design
and Management application is taking shape to deliver a system
to improve all software testing projects. We are fortunate to be
working with some very talented people who bring many years past
experience working at the cutting edge in Software Validation and
Verification at the University of Queensland’s Software Verification
Research Centre. So watch this space, first pre-releases of some
exciting components coming soon.
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Company Milestones
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Since 1988 milestone after milestone has been achieved.
- TALC Version 1.0 for DOS was released in December 1989.
- First sale made to local software developer in February 1990.
- First distributor appointed in November 1990.
- Version 2.0, released in December 1990, added functionality
to generate high volume test data.
- First international sale (UK), March 1991.
- Version 3.0, released in September 1991, included revised
and simplified tests linking procedures, new scripting functions,
and support for asynchronous emulators.
- Version 4.0, the first Windows version, released in January
1993, included full backwards compatibility with all test cases
created under earlier DOS versions.
- Version 5.0, released in October 1994, added object level
support to graphical interface testing.
- Windows 95 (Version 5.1) released in October 1995.
- In January 1996, the decision was made to release a special
version to aid in year 2000 legacy testing. Product objectives
were defined and technical work commenced.
- TALC2000 (TALC version 6.0), released in December 1996,
allowed automatic date ageing of all test transactions.
- Regional distributor for UK and Europe appointed September 1997.
- Version 6.1, released September 1997, provided support for
32 bit emulators.
- First sale to a US Fortune 100 company, October 1997. This
(site licence) sale replaced an existing well known US developed
testing tool.
- Version 6.2, released March 1998, provided increased support
for European keyboards end character sets.
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Company Contact Details
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TALLECOM SOFTWARE
3 Koombahla Drive
Tallebudgera QLD 4228
AUSTRALIA
Telephone: +61 (0)7 5533 9929
Facsimile: +61 (0)7 5533 9958
Internet: http://www.talc2000.com
Email: talcinfo@talc2000.com
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