Parasoft Resources Center: White Paper

API Testing Maturity Model   by Wayne Ariola (Chief Strategy Officer), Cynthia Dunlop (Lead Technical Writer)

Parasoft's API Testing Maturity Model helps organizations set realistic expectations for adopting and optimizing API Testing solutions.

Service Virtualization ROI   by Wayne Ariola (Chief Strategy Officer), Cynthia Dunlop (Lead Technical Writer)

Learn about the business drivers behind service virtualization purchase decisions, as well as the opportunities for ROI via OpEx reduction, CapEx reduction, risk reduction, and incremental top-line revenue.

Cloud/ API Testing Business Drivers   by Wayne Ariola (Chief Strategy Officer), Cynthia Dunlop (Lead Technical Writer)

Learn about the business drivers behind API testing purchase decisions, as well as the opportunities for ROI in terms of reduced costs, reduced risks, and improved efficiency.

API Testing: Challenges and Best Practices   by Wayne Ariola (Chief Strategy Officer), Cynthia Dunlop (Lead Technical Writer)

Learn about 4 unique challenges associated with API testing and 5 strategies for ensuring API reliability, security, and performance vs. the extreme conditions that API exposure brings.

Achieving DO-178C Compliance   by Adam Trujillo (Technical Writer), Michal Rozneau (Developer)

In this paper, you'll learn how Parasoft's Development Testing Platform can help you achieve DO-178C compliance by automating policies that specifically address the guideline.

Development Testing Platform: Integrated Quality Management   by Wayne Ariola (Chief Strategy Officer), Adam Trujillo (Technical Writer)

This paper describes the key components of the Parasoft Development Testing Platform and how they function in order to provide significant benefits and long-term cost savings.

Achieving Java Application Security with Parasoft Jtest   by Marek Kucharski (President Parasoft SA, VP of Dev), Arthur Hicken (Evangelist), Adam Trujillo (Technical Writer)

Organizations taking to the cloud must be wary distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDOS) and SQL injections (SQLi) and other cyber-attacks. In this paper, you'll learn how to build security into your Java application.

Top 5 Best Practices for Unit Testing   by Arthur Hicken (Evangelist), Adam Trujillo (Technical Writer)

Learn how to create actionable tests for the present and the future, ensure that unit testing is adopted across the team, and help the team avoid unit testing pitfalls.

Service Virtualization Maturity Model   by Wayne Ariola (Chief Strategy Officer), Cynthia Dunlop (Lead Technical Writer)

Read Parasoft's Service Virtualization Maturity Model, which helps IT organizations set realistic expectations for adopting and optimizing service virtualization.

Developing DO-178B/C Compliant Software for Airborne Systems   by Wayne Ariola (Chief Strategy Officer), Adam Trujillo (Technical Writer)

This paper covers software development testing guidance outlined in DO-178B/C, including, DO-178B/C background, differences between DO-178B and DO-178C, why policy-driven development testing is central to DO-178B/C compliance, and how Parsoft C/C++test helps achieve DO-178B/C compliance.

ISO 26262 Software Compliance: Achieving Functional Safety in the Automotive Industry   by Marek Kucharski (President Parasoft SA, VP of Dev), Adam Trujillo (Technical Writer)

Read this paper to learn about ISO 26262, its goals, and how to facilitate the software quality tasks for achieving ISO 26262 software compliance.

Static Analysis: The Top 10 Mistakes , Parasoft White Paper  by Arthur Hicken (Evangelist), Wayne Ariola (Chief Strategy Officer), Cynthia Dunlop (Lead Technical Writer)

See the top 10 reasons why static analysis initiatives don’t deliver real value—and get some tips for avoiding these common pitfalls.

Service Virtualization: The Next Frontier for Testing , Parasoft White Paper  by Wayne Ariola (Chief Strategy Officer), Cynthia Dunlop (Lead Technical Writer)

Test environment access constraints have become one of the greatest barriers to delivering quality software efficiently. Learn how service virtualization removes these constraints, enabling teams to test more efficiently & effectively.

Unit Testing Techniques for Embedded Systems Software , Parasoft White Paper  by Marek Kucharski (President Parasoft SA, VP of Dev), Cynthia Dunlop (Lead Technical Writer)

Explains how unit testing can help developers start verifying code as soon as it is completed—even if the target hardware is not yet built or available for testing—so target testing can focus on verifying the interface between the hardware and the software.

The Benefits of Policy-Driven Development   by Wayne Ariola (Chief Strategy Officer), Adam Trujillo (Technical Writer)

Policy-driven development can help businesses align software development activities with their business goals.

FDA Software Validation Compliance   by Wayne Ariola (Chief Strategy Officer), Adam Trujillo (Technical Writer), Cynthia Dunlop (Lead Technical Writer)

Details how Parasoft supports FDA General Principles of Software Validation sections 3, 4, and 5.

Test Environment Access Report   by Wayne Ariola (Chief Strategy Officer), Cynthia Dunlop (Lead Technical Writer)

See the results from a recent survey about the test environment access constraints that developers, testers, and performance test engineers face—and how that impacts the risk of application failures.

Integrated Error-Detection Techniques Find More Bugs in Embedded C Software , Parasoft White Paper  by Marek Kucharski (President Parasoft SA, VP of Dev), Cynthia Dunlop (Lead Technical Writer)

Demonstrates how to automate and synchronize error-detection techniques—including static code analysis, data flow analysis, unit testing, and runtime error detection—to more effectively find defects in embedded C applications.

The Case for Policy-Driven Development: Embedded Systems   by Wayne Ariola (Chief Strategy Officer), Adam Trujillo (Technical Writer)

Learn how policy-driven development can help businesses in the embedded systems space overcome the shortcomings of traditional software development.

Static Analysis Spring Cleaning   by Cynthia Dunlop (Lead Technical Writer), Arthur Hicken (Evangelist)

Get 10 tips for revitalizing your existing static analysis implementation—no matter what static analysis tool you're using.

Testing EDI Messages   by Cynthia Dunlop (Lead Technical Writer), Wayne Ariola (Chief Strategy Officer)

Learn how to take full advantage of a rich graphical interface when you're configuring, sending, and validating EDI-based industry-specific messages during functional and load testing.

Automated Defect Prevention for Embedded Software Quality   by VDC Research (Tech Market Research/Consulting)

This paper from VDC Research discusses the challenges organizations face and provides insight on embedded software practices that can help achieve predictable outcomes and safe functionality.

On-Demand Test Environments   by Wayne Ariola (Chief Strategy Officer), Cynthia Dunlop (Lead Technical Writer)

Learn how service virtualization enables easy, rapid creation of the various test environments needed for QA and development—with dependencies eliminated.

Satisfying EN 50128 Railway Software Requirements - 1,039 KB PDF  by Marek Kucharski (President Parasoft SA, VP of Dev)

Outlines how Parasoft C/C++test helps organizations satisfy the requirements for particular SIL levels as defined by the EN 50128 standard (for railway software).

Eliminate Testing Roadblocks with Service Virtualization   by Wayne Ariola (Chief Strategy Officer), Cynthia Dunlop (Lead Technical Writer)

Testing SOA and composite applications? Learn how to exercise end-to-end transactions involving system components that are unavailable, evolving, or difficult-to-access.

Performance Test Environments On Demand   by Wayne Ariola (Chief Strategy Officer), Cynthia Dunlop (Lead Technical Writer)

Learn how to rapidly access a realistic performance testing environment that enables you to run the tests you need—on your own schedule

Static Analysis Tool Evaluation Guide   by Arthur Hicken (Evangelist), Cynthia Dunlop (Lead Technical Writer)

Follow these 6 steps to choose a static analysis tool that your team will actually use—now & in the future.

voke Parasoft Virtualize Snapshot   by Theresa Lanowitz (voke Research)

This 12-page report from voke media analyzes Parasoft's position in the Service Virtualization market.

Accelerate Parallel Development with Service Virtualization   by Wayne Ariola (Chief Strategy Officer), Cynthia Dunlop (Lead Technical Writer)

This eBook introduces a new way to break through common dev & test roadblocks using a new technique that expands service virtualization.

The Next Generation of Test Environment Management: Service Virtualization   by Wayne Ariola (Chief Strategy Officer), Cynthia Dunlop (Lead Technical Writer)

This eBook introduces Service Virtualization, which gives teams the freedom to exercise their composite applications in incomplete, constantly evolving, and/or difficult-to-access environments.

Static Analysis for FDA Software Validation Compliance eBook   by Wayne Ariola (Chief Strategy Officer), Cynthia Dunlop (Lead Technical Writer)

To assist organizations that are exploring static analysis for FDA compliance, this 12-page guide describes Parasoft's static analysis capabilities in the context of FDA compliance.

Parasoft Support for IEC 62304 Medical Device Software Certification - 1,052 KB PDF  by Marek Kucharski (President Parasoft SA, VP of Dev)

Find out how the Parasoft Compliance Solution helps organizations adopt practices for IEC 62304 compliance in the least burdensome manner.

Load Testing Web Services eBook   by Sergei Baranov (Software Engineer), Cynthia Dunlop (Lead Technical Writer)

This 15-page guide provides practical tips on how to automate web services load testing as part of the SOA testing process.

Static Code Analysis Best Practices , Parasoft White Paper  by Adam Kolawa (CEO and co-founder), Wayne Ariola (Chief Strategy Officer), Cynthia Dunlop (Lead Technical Writer)

Explains how static analysis (static code analysis, data flow analysis, and metrics) can help your team improve code security, reliability, performance, and maintainability—and how to get started as painlessly as possible.

End to End Testing & Validation , Parasoft White Paper  by Rami Jaamour (Software Engineering Manager), Wayne Ariola (Chief Strategy Officer), Cynthia Dunlop (Lead Technical Writer)

Demonstrates how to leverage automated end-to-end testing and application behavior virtualization to execute and validate all critical aspects of transactions directly from the test environment— even when some components are unavailable.

Agile Quality Practices that Save Time   by Cynthia Dunlop (Lead Technical Writer), Wayne Ariola (Chief Strategy Officer)

This 12-page eBook aggregates 10 tips for ensuring that each new feature is truly "done"...and defects don't derail your Agile project.

Software Development Productivity Audit   by Marc Hamilton (Hamilton Management Consultants)

An independent audit found that Parasoft's development team is 8-15X more productive than the industry average.

Foundations of Secure Application Development - 44 KB PDF

Explains why approaching security as a bug-finding exercise is risky and inefficient, and then explains how to make your web sites immune to attacks —including the SQL injections, Lizamoon mass injections & mesh injections.

Increase Agile Development Productivity eBook

This 6-page Agile Project Management guide offers 4 tips for achieving greater efficiency in Agile development projects...up to 10X.

Understand and Optimize Code Coverage eBook

This 20-page Code Coverage Guide introduces common pitfalls and misconceptions regarding code coverage granularity, coverage criteria, coverage density, and test overlap, then it explains what you need to know to choose the best coverage metric for your goals.

Unit Testing for Java Enterprise Applications: Extend Beyond JUnit eBook

This 7-page guide explains why a more comprehensive regression test suite is required for ensuring the continued functionality of Java EE apps, then covers how to build and maintain such a test suite.

Integrated Error-Detection Techniques Find More Bugs in .NET Applications , Parasoft White Paper

Demonstrates how to automate and synchronize error-detection techniques—including static code analysis, data flow analysis, and unit testing—to more effectively find defects in .NET applications.

Satisfying SIL Requirements: Ensure Functional Safety of E/E/PE Safety-Related Systems , Parasoft White Paper

Outlines how Parasoft addresses the requirements for achieving each SIL safety integrity level as defined by the IEC 61508 standard.

Success with Static Analysis for Security: Why Code Audits Fail , Parasoft White Paper

Explains why and how to apply static analysis tools in the context of a policy-based security process that not only prevents security vulnerabilities, but also focuses on SDLC productivity.

Satisfying ASIL Requirements: Ensure the Functional Safety of Automotive Software , Parasoft White Paper

Outlines how Parasoft addresses the requirements for achieving each ASIL safety integrity level as defined by the ISO/DIS 26262 standard.

Integrating Parasoft C++test and MDK-ARM for Achieving Higher Quality and Safety Verification

This paper introduces C++test integration with MDK-ARM

Practical Unit Testing for Embedded Systems - Part 2 of 2 - 906 KB PDF

Demonstrates how to prepare, maintain, and benefit from setting up unit tests for a simplified simulated ASR module. Learn how to achieve particular goals with unit testing (like a certain level of code coverage) and explore the safety relevance of unit testing.

Practical Unit Testing for Embedded Systems - Part 1 of 2 - 1,200 KB PDF

Demonstrates how to prepare, maintain, and benefit from setting up unit tests for a simplified simulated ASR module. Learn how using tight IDE/Test Framework integration and the test-tool-dedicated host communication channel through ULINK Pro simplifies the initial set up and extends testing capabilities.

Test Driven Development (TDD) and Unit Testing with Parasoft Concerto and Parasoft Test , Parasoft White Paper

Explains how Parasoft supports Test Driven Development with many different capabilities: both automated and assistive.

Automating .NET Development Best Practices: The Fast Track to Reliable .NET Software , Parasoft White Paper

Introduces the best practices shown to have the greatest impact on .NET code's reliability, agility, and maintainability, then explains how automation can help your team take advantage of these best practices without disrupting or slowing your normal processes.

Establishing a Continuous Process for PCI DSS Compliance , Parasoft White Paper

Details how Parasoft reduces the time and cost of PCI DSS compliance.

Extreme Geographically-Distributed Development: Tips and Tricks , Parasoft White Paper

Shares the lessons that Parasoft learned when developing a shared code base around the globe—including how to best integrate multiple source control repositories and how use automation to establish a sustainable process.

Agile Development Requires Agile Processes , Parasoft White Paper

Highlights how organizations can optimize their software development processes to improve quality and efficiency—even as they are rapidly evolving applications in response to constantly-changing business needs

Automating Regression Testing for Command-Line Applications , Parasoft White Paper

Presents a new approach to regression testing command-line applications: an approach that uses the graphical environment of Parasoft Test to fully automate the core regression testing process.

Increase Software Development Productivity: Equations for Efficiency , Parasoft White Paper

Presents one simple equation for assessing your team’s current efficiency level, then four formulas for improving it.

C and C++ Data Flow Static Analysis , Parasoft White Paper

Demonstrates how Parasoft's data flow analysis for C and C++ provides automated detection of runtime errors such as memory and resource management problems, buffer overruns, thread management errors, dead code, exceptions, and security vulnerabilities

Technologies that Make Developers’ Lives Easier , Parasoft White Paper

Introduces technologies that help developers prevent & expose the most elusive errors, eliminate tedious meetings, and test incomplete systems.

Productivity vs. Quality: Achieving Measurable Results through Proper Workflow Management - 489 KB PDF

Explains how to achieve both productivity and quality by making quality tasks an integrated part of your daily development process.

Integrated Error-Detection Techniques Find More Bugs in Java Applications , Parasoft White Paper

Demonstrates how to automate and synchronize error-detection techniques—including static code analysis, data flow analysis, unit testing, and runtime error detection—to more effectively find defects in Java applications.

Unit Testing Best Practices

Explains how unit testing can help your team rapidly modify code with confidence—and how to get started as painlessly as possible.

Code Review Best Practices , Parasoft White Paper

Explains how process automation plus a focus on requirements can help your team uncover more complex defects during peer code review—without impeding project progress.

Data Flow Static Analysis: Static Analysis on Steroids , Parasoft White Paper

Explains how data flow analysis can be applied to bolster both your static analysis and unit testing efforts.

SOA Adopters Retrospective Report: Quality Considerations in the Primary Phase , Parasoft White Paper

Survey findings: From a quality perspective, the failure to adequately plan for and invest in SOA quality impeded organizations' ability to fully realize the expected ROI of their initial SOA initiative.

Automating C/C++ Runtime Error Detection with Parasoft Insure++ , Parasoft White Paper

Discusses the challenges associated with C and C++ development— including memory corruption, memory leaks, pointer errors, I/O errors, and more— and explains how Parasoft helps developers eliminate those problems.

Best Practices for Bulletproofing C/C++ Code , Parasoft White Paper

Examines several techniques that reduce the risks of errors when extending an existing code base, as well as improve the stability and quality of the project's evolving code base.

The Yin and Yang of Software Development: 5 Best Practices that Allow Efficiency and Creativity to Productively Coexist , Parasoft White Paper

Explains how 5 best practices reduce the amount of avoidable waste in the software development process, enabling developers to satisfy business goals without compromising their craft.

Validate Section 508 and WAI WCAG Web Accessibility Compliance , Parasoft White Paper - 477 KB PDF

Explains how Parasoft facilitates compliance with Section 508 and WAI WCAG web accessibility guidelines.

Software Development Management with Parasoft Concerto , Parasoft White Paper - 72 KB PDF

Explains how the Parasoft Concerto Software Development Management solution assists to increase productivity throughout the SDLC.

Parasoft Concerto: Providing Management Insight and Control , Parasoft White Paper

Explains how Parasoft Concerto provides management an objective assessment of the project as well as helps them optimize the three fundamental variables involved in effective software development management: functionality, deadline, and budget.

Implementing the UK Ministry of Defence Standard 00-56 (Issue 4 Publication Date 01 June 2007) , Parasoft White Paper - 475 KB PDF

This paper describes how Parasoft helps organizations comply with the UK Ministry of Defence standards document, which defines how its contractors should manage risk within their projects.

Automated Defect Prevention Introduction - 1,454 KB PDF

This booklet introduces the key concepts featured in the book Automated Defect Prevention: Best Practices in Software Development. It is designed to provide you an overview of what Automated Defect Prevention involves and how it can benefit your development team.

Parasoft Insure++: Before You Get Started , Parasoft White Paper - 38 KB PDF

Helps you understand why Insure++ reports compiler errors under certain conditions...and what to do if it reports one for your code.

Introduction to Parasoft Tracer: A Demonstration of How to Use Tracer Technology While Extending an Existing Application , Parasoft White Paper - 1,509 KB PDF

Describes and demonstrates how a development team responsible for extending an existing application can use Jtest Tracer to verify whether the new functionality works correctly now and in the future, as the application continues to evolve.

Reducing the Risks of 64-bit Application Porting With Parasoft C++test and Parasoft Insure++ , Parasoft White Paper

Introduces the potential problems that could occur when you port applications to 64-bit processors and describes a practical strategy for preventing them.

Putting the SOA Infrastructure Together: Lessons from SOA Leaders , SOA Leaders Council Whitepaper - 117 KB PDF

SOA leaders lay out a practical approach to implementing an enterprise SOA.

Avoiding C/C++ Dynamic Memory Problems with Parasoft Insure++ , Parasoft White Paper

Discusses the challenges associated with C and C++ development— including memory corruption, memory leaks, pointer errors, I/O errors, and more— and explains how Parasoft Insure++ helps developers eliminate those problems.

How and Why to buy a Runtime Debugger , Parasoft White Paper

Explains why to buy a runtime debugger and what questions to ask as you are selecting one.

C++ Defensive Programming: Firewalls and Debugging Information , Parasoft White Paper

Presents two proactive programming techniques that assist in producing more robust code with minimal overhead in both programmer effort and runtime performance.