Acquisition

Mission Testing PLC
28 August 2001


Embargoed until 7.00 am                                          28 August 2001



                             Mission Testing plc

                     ('Mission Testing' or the 'Company')


   Acquisition of Specialist Testing Solutions Ltd ('STS') for £3.7 million




Mission Testing plc, the AIM-listed software testing consultancy and services
provider, is pleased to announce that it has acquired the entire issued share
capital of Specialist Testing Solutions Limited, a private UK based software
testing consultancy, for an aggregate consideration of £3.7 million (the
'Acquisition').


For the year ended 31 December 2000, STS reported revenue of £1.2m and profit
before tax of £190,548 and had net assets of £80,507. The Directors of Mission
Testing believe that the Acquisition will be earnings enhancing for the
Company in the year ending 30 June 2002.


The Acquisition is in line with Mission Testing's stated strategy of enhancing
organic growth through selective, complementary acquisitions. It is the
Company's ambition to be the leading consolidator within the industry.


Information about STS

STS is a rapidly growing UK-based software testing consultancy business
employing 43 staff, including 32 skilled software testing consultants. Client
projects range from testing retail and investment banking systems through to
quality assurance of e-government programmes. STS also has specific strengths
in performance testing and has developed proprietary software to streamline
the execution and analysis of results when testing the performance capacity
and response times of large internet-enabled or legacy systems.


The three Directors (who are also the shareholders) of STS have many years
experience of planning and managing large software testing programmes and will
remain with the business.


The clients and staff of STS are a highly complementary fit with Mission
Testing's own strong client base and capabilities and the Directors of Mission
Testing will quickly integrate STS within Mission Testing's trading
subsidiary, Mission Testing Europe Limited. STS's Manchester office is a
strategic geographic addition to Mission Testing's offices in Gatwick and the
City and will be used immediately to give local support to a major financial
services organisation that has recently engaged Mission Testing.


The Consideration

The consideration is to be satisfied by a payment of £700,000 in cash on
completion with the balance being settled by the issue of a total of 1.6
million new ordinary Mission Testing shares (the 'New Shares'). Of these
shares, 1,350,000 were issued on completion (the 'Initial Shares') and the
remainder will be issued following the Company's AGM this year (the 'Deferred
Shares') .The New Shares, which will rank pari passu in all respects with the
existing issued shares, will be subject to lock-in arrangements up to the
publication of the Company's interim results for the 6 months ended 31
December 2002.


Application will be made for the New Shares to be admitted to trading on AIM.
Trading is expected to commence in the Initial Shares on 4 September 2001 and
in the Deferred Shares after the Company's 2001 AGM.




Tony Wells, Mission Testing's Chief Executive, said:


'The market for software testing continues to present substantial
opportunities for Mission Testing to supply organisations who increasingly
recognise the benefits of utilising an independent testing consultancy. The
acquisition of STS is the first step of the Group's stated strategy at the
time of flotation: to accelerate organic growth plans and selectively
consolidate first class businesses in this tremendously exciting, yet highly
fragmented global market.'




Mission Testing is due to announce its preliminary results for the year ended
30 June 2001 on Monday, 17 September 2001.



For further information please contact:

Mission Testing plc                                               01293 457123
Tony Wells, Chief Executive
www.missiontesting.com

Square Mile BSMG Worldwide                                       0207 601 1042
Edward Macquisten


Note to Editors


Mission Testing is the leading provider of specialist software testing
solutions and services for a wide range of software applications and business
sectors. The Company was admitted to AIM on 6 December 2000, raising net
proceeds of £8.8m. The Company's client base principally comprises 'blue chip'
companies in the banking and finance, technology and telecoms sectors.


Its interim results announced in March 2001 reported an 83 per cent increase
in turnover and 105 per cent increase in pretax profits.