Automated JMS test tool released early

New version of industry-leading Test Automation Tool provides huge productivity and quality improvements for integration projects utilising a variety of messaging technologies including Web Services, JMS, Sonic MQ, TIBCO (RV, AE or EMS), IBM MQ Series, and others.

LONDON – May 27th, 2005 - Green Hat Consulting today confirmed that it will be a Premium Sponsor of this year's ICS Test Conference on Software Testing. The conference is to be held at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre in London on the 27th – 28th September, 2005. Full details are available at www.icstest.com. On the Green Hat booth, delegates will be able to see for themselves the power of the latest version of GH Tester, Green Hat's industry-leading automated testing tool for message-based integration projects.

Already widely used in blue chip organisations such as BP, KPN Telecom, Cendant Corporation, ScottishPower, Virgin Mobile, Atos Origin and 3 (Hutchison 3G Telecom), GH Tester enables integration projects to be delivered in a fraction of the time and cost than has previously been the case, and with considerable enhancements to delivered quality.

With the latest version, not only is the range of functions offered by GH Tester greatly enhanced, but significantly the product now supports a variety of integration and messaging technologies including Sonic MQ, IBM WebSphere MQ and other JMS implementations. Web Services (SOAP) are also supported in the new release, which means that the current drive towards Service Oriented Architecture and an Enterprise Service Bus approach to integration can be fully supported through the use of GH Tester.

As an additional benefit, GH Tester will also offer integration with a range of leading Test Management software suites, including Mercury Quality Center and Compuware TestManager.

GH Tester is thought to be the first specialist automated testing tool designed specifically for integration projects that truly offers multi-protocol support. As such, it will appeal to users of a variety of such messaging protocols and, in particular, to those organisations who use various different technologies within their organisation. GH Tester will finally enable them to standardise on a single testing tool that will, in all probability, also provide integration into their overall test management environment.

As part of its Premium Sponsorship, Green Hat will be taking a speaking slot at the Conference to discuss the issues around automated testing within a Service Oriented Architecture.

Other exhibitions at which Green Hat intends to present GH Tester include:
TestExpo - 13th October 2005 at the Thistle Tower, London
TUCON 05 – 23rd-25th October at ChampionsGate, Florida

GH Tester is available for free evaluation from the Green Hat Consulting website at www.greenhatconsulting.com/ghtools.

About the GH Tools
The GH Tools are a set of productised, commercially-available tools that have emerged from Green Hat's many, many man-years of work on TIBCO projects, where the lack of tools to assist in the build, test and run phases of such projects has always been apparent. The GH Tools incorporate all of our own experience in this area, plus that of our customers and users. As supported products, there is a fully-funded roadmap to build on the level of functionality that users want to see in this area; all users have free access to product upgrades (subject to a current maintenance agreement) and thus share in the aggregation of good ideas and enhancement requests.

The GH Tools are sold and supported by a network of Resellers around the world including:

Aipex Pty Ltd in Australia and New Zealand
MENA eSolutions in the Middle East and North Africa
Perficient in North America
Dynabyte in Scandinavia.

The tools are:

GH Tester an automated testing tool which facilitates dramatic savings in the time and cost of building and testing integration projects.
http://www.greenhatconsulting.com/ghtester

GH Tracker a "black box flight recorder" enabling users to capture the messages published onto the TIB. These are then stored in a database for subsequent searching and sorting to identify broken messages and message flows.
http://www.greenhatconsulting.com/ghtracker

GH Viewer provides an enterprise-wide view of the TIBCO network at the protocol level, enabling users to identify potential bottlenecks and hotspots before they cause expensive system degradation.
http://www.greenhatconsulting.com/ghviewer

About Green Hat Consulting
Green Hat Consulting is a business process automation and systems integration company, specialising in the finance, energy and telecommunications sectors. Our clients include some of the largest European and American investment banks, stock exchanges and providers of trading systems.

In addition, we have delivered fully integrated process automation ("STP") solutions to major clients in the finance, telecommunications, energy trading and travel & logistic sectors across Europe. Our expertise in developing and delivering industry solutions which automate and integrate the key business processes in that sector has enabled our clients to enjoy real improvements in efficiency and productivity.

Green Hat Consulting's products include feeds and adapters, monitoring and administration tools and front-ends. Our bespoke development service accommodates individual requirements.

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