MONROVIA, CA. (April 17, 2000)- The Boeing Company and Parasoft Corporation have jointly announced that Boeing is licensing Parasoft's CodeWizard to automate coding standard enforcement on major software development programs.

CodeWizard will automatically enforce "programming rules" and coding guidelines created by Boeing and already in use by the company's developers. Coding standards are used to ensure quality and uniformity in programs produced by a company's developers. Although they are not a new phenomenon, companies until recently had to rely on "self-policing" by developers to ensure that their standards were followed.

"Boeing believes in the use of coding standards and we have been using them for quite some time," said Lori Kilpatrick of Boeing."“With CodeWizard's versatility, we are able to automatically enforce Boeing coding standards which will save us an appreciable amount of time and money on current, future and ongoing projects."

Parasoft president and CEO Dr. Adam Kolawa sees Boeing's move as part of an industry trend which CodeWizard is helping to spur. "Parasoft built CodeWizard with the intention of helping companies automatically enforce coding standards. We made it versatile enough that it can be adopted to any development process."

"We consider Boeing's decision to automatically enforce coding standards to be a very wise step. We are pleased that they chose CodeWizard to implement this decision and are confident that using CodeWizard as part of their development process will tremendously reduce Boeing's software development cost and increase reliability of the software their developers produce," added Kolawa.

About CodeWizard
CodeWizard is the world's only automatic coding standard enforcement tool. It uses patented Source Code Analysis technology (patent # 5,860,011) to automatically alert developers of over 70 coding standard violations in C++ programs. These violations represent high-level design flaws or other problems which may hinder code readability, portability, etc. The RuleWizard feature also allows developers and/or managers to graphically customize their own rules to be enforced. Using CodeWizard to identify and prevent design and coding problems early on can save valuable time and resources which would otherwise be wasted if left to be fixed later in the development process.

Availability
CodeWizard is available for Windows NT/95/08, Linux, DEC Alpha, Sun/Solaris, SGI (IRIX 5.x & 6.x), HP (10 & 11), IBM RS/6000 (AIX 3.4 & 4.x). For information on purchasing, please contact Parasoft’s sales department at (888) 305-0041.

About Parasoft
Parasoft Corporation develops and markets advanced error prevention and error detection tools for UNIX, Windows, and Internet development environments. Parasoft's award-winning products and patented technologies assist developers and managers in improving software quality, accelerating time to market, and reducing development costs. Parasoft's headquarters is located at 2031 S. Myrtle Ave., Monrovia, CA 91016. Telephone (888) 305-0041. Fax (626) 305-3036. Email to: info@parasoft.com. URL: http://www.parasoft.com

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