Parasoft Concerto for Agile:

For Agile, Scrum, Extreme Programming, or Hybrid methodologies—Parasoft Concerto is a complete Agile development management platform that seamlessly integrates into any development environment and toolset.

It is part of a broader ground-breaking technology suite that can include Parasoft Test's Automated Defect Prevention and end-to-end software verification & validation—as well as Parasoft Virtualize's dev/test environment management.

With this solution, you can simplify the process of rapidly and continuously delivering high-quality software.

Agile Project Management

Parasoft Concerto cuts the guesswork involved in managing software development projects. Our estimation and planning tools help teams set reasonable goals for the scope and duration of each sprint, iteration, or release. As business needs evolve, teams can analyze various scenarios to determine the best course of action.

To prevent the surprises that derail schedules, the entire team gains unparalleled project visibility—with automated correlation between requirements, tasks, code, tests, and builds. The team's agreed-upon functionality and quality expectations are clearly defined in the system, then continuously validated behind the scenes.

The result: Real-time assessment of your projects—what's on track and what needs to be done to catch-up...

Agile Task Distribution & Monitoring

To help the team align its work with business goals, requirements and issues are converted into actionable, measurable work tasks. These are distributed directly to the responsible developer's IDE according to manual assignments or predefined guidelines.

Without interrupting the developer's workflow, Concerto works behind the scenes— correlating related tasks and artifacts as well as tracking how much time is spent working on these items.

This task management is key for evaluating the team's current progress and capacity— and for continuously improving the accuracy of the team's estimations. It also keeps QA well-informed about what's ready for testing. Moreover, it enables change-based testing, which dramatically reduces the amount of testing that QA must perform on a continuously-evolving application.

Integrated Agile Quality

Parasoft Test gives teams the industry's broadest spectrum of integrated defect prevention and detection technologies—so it's easier than ever to know when functionality is truly "done". With complicated and time-consuming quality tasks automated, the process of delivering consistent project results is simple.

Developers build and validate code according to the team's agreed-upon policies (for static analysis, peer review, unit testing, TDD, etc.). This Development Testing improves velocity by reducing the amount and difficulty of downstream debugging—and by making code easier to evolve as business needs change.

QA rapidly constructs end-to-end tests that validate all critical aspects of complex transactions, which may extend through web interfaces, backend services, ESBs, databases, and everything in between. Parasoft covers functional testing, load testing, manual user acceptance testing, and application behavior virtualization.

Concerto supports development practices (static analysis, unit testing, runtime error detection, code review) in C, C++, Java, and .NET. For QA, it provides end-to-end functional and load testing for distributed heterogeneous applications (Web, SOA, Cloud).