Outsourced and Geographically-Distributed Development

For outsourced development and geographically-distributed development—Parasoft Concerto helps organizations ensure that management's expectations around functionality, quality, budget, and deadlines are satisfied consistently and efficiently.

A complete software development management platform, Parasoft Concerto seamlessly integrates project & task management 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 ensure that high-quality reusable code is delivered as expected—regardless of obstacles such as communication barriers, fragmented development environments, and team turnover.

Convert Management Expectations into Actionable, Measurable Tasks

Parasoft's policy-driven approach guides the organization to convert management's expectations for development and testing into actionable, measurable work tasks. An automated infrastructure runs in the background, orchestrating mandated processes (manual and automated), and continuously monitoring policy compliance. Notifications are generated only when actions don't align with policy expectations. In this way, SDLC tasks are driven to a predictable outcome according to defined industry standards or management's expectations.

While management gets real-time visibility into how the software is being developed, developers gain immediate, objective feedback on whether their work is satisfying expectations. This reduces the need for rework, enabling the team to focus on delivering the expected functionality on time and on budget.

Centralize Project and Task Management

Parasoft Concerto reduces the risk involved in managing outsourced/distributed software development projects. Our estimation and planning tools help teams set reasonable goals for the scope and duration of each iteration and release. As business needs evolve, managers can analyze various scenarios to determine the best course of action. And if it ever seems that the project is straying from deadline, budget, functionality, or quality expectations, management is alerted immediately.

Through this task management and monitoring, everyone involved in the project—from management to development to QA—has instant insight into what has been completed, what's in progress, what should be done next, and how much work remains.

Task Distribution & Monitoring

To ensure that the team's resources are aligned with management's expectations, 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 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 implemented functionality is truly working as expected. 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 productivity by reducing the amount and difficulty of downstream debugging—and by making code easier to evolve and reuse if 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).