In celebration of the one year anniversary of a unique online community dedicated to fostering communication and collaboration among QA and IT professionals, which was launched in April 2007, QAZone (http://qazone.empirix.com ), Empirix® today a number of significant milestones. The site, since that time, has welcomed nearly 425,000 unique visitors and more than 1,300 of these visitors have become active QAZone members. Plus, more than 500 documents have been uploaded and 2,000 messages have been exchanged in QAZone Forums. Including Agile/Yahoo testing communities, SQAForums, Microsoft Test Center, and QA-centric blogs as well as with QA-centric organizations such as SQNE, WOPR,  ASQ, and PSQT, QAZone, today, is linked with all major QA sites and communities.

Director of software engineering at Empirix customer AdBrite, Menachem Dickman, points to QAZone as instrumental to the success of his company's Empirix e-TEST suite implementation. "Empirix's support and services were outstanding. Having the ability to access additional help and advice through QAZone made the process that much easier for us. The user forums and wealth of information available on Empirix QAZone was a quick and easy way to get answers to our questions, and interact with Empirix experts and users."

Empirix's QAZone community manager, Marina Gil-Santamaria, says: "The feedback that we have received about QAZone has been overwhelming". "It has been fascinating watching our community grow and develop its own identity. QAZone members are learning about QA best practices and methodologies, advancing their professional careers, and helping out 'newbie' users in our Forums….really outstanding."

For Resource Center, Collaboration and Career Development, QA Community Turns to Empirix.

Jaspreet Sidhu from HCL said: "I am really energized to see that Empirix has listened to QAZone community feedback, and is offering an e-TEST suite certification program".