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Static Analysis & Development Testing for Embedded Devices   by Jason Schadewald (Product Manager)

Many developers are overwhelmed by static analysis & other development testing practices. Here are some tips to help you manage the validity and quantity of results with minimal human intervention.

Security Has Landed in the World of Embedded Software Testing   by Jason Schadewald (Product Manager)

Security has finally landed as a hot topic in the world of embedded devices. Two key themes from last week's Design West conference: a) security is everyone's job and 2) build security in.

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.

How to Spring Clean Your Static Analysis: 10 Tips   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.

The Static Analysis Spectrum: 5 Types of Static Code Analysis   by Arthur Hicken (Evangelist), Wayne Ariola (Chief Strategy Officer), Adam Trujillo (Technical Writer)

Different types of static analysis serve different purposes. Choosing the right one makes the difference between wasting time & money and developing better software faster.

Exposing Your APIs = Opening Your Home to Bears?   by Wayne Ariola (Chief Strategy Officer), Cynthia Dunlop (Lead Technical Writer)

Exposing an API to your application is as risky as installing a doggie door into your house—as a recent incident with a bear aptly illustrates.

Service Virtualization Definition   by Cynthia Dunlop (Lead Technical Writer)

Provides a service virtualization definition, presents key service virtualization benefits, and explores service virtualization ROI.

15 Seconds to Find a Pointer Error In 500,000+ Lines of Code   by Cynthia Dunlop (Lead Technical Writer)

Learn how Parasoft Development Testing platform found an elusive crash-causing pointer error and also increased code quality, stability, & compliance.

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.

Parasoft API Testing Solution Sheet - 1,029 KB PDF

Learn how Parasoft's API Testing solution simplifies the complex testing that’s vital for secure, reliable, and compliant composite applications.

Parasoft Service Virtualization Solution Sheet - 1,602 KB PDF

Learn how Parasoft Service Virtualization delivers a simulated test environment that allows your organization to test earlier, faster and more completely.

Development Testing Podcast: Do You Know What NOT to Test?   by Arthur Hicken (Evangelist)

Explore the evolution of software testing and get tips for applying top Agile quality strategies to development testing.

Parasoft TV: Mobile Application Development & Testing

Learn why you shouldn't be doing mobile app development and testing without service virtualization.

Parasoft TV: Why Service Virtualization is Essential for Mobile

Learn why service virtualization is essential for ensuring that your mobile apps deliver a compelling user experience.

Parasoft TV: What's Needed for API Integrity

Learn about the top challenges to API integrity and the strategies and best practices for reducing the risks associated with each challenge.

Parasoft TV: Cloudy with a Chance of Cyber Attacks

Learn about 1) New cloud service technologies that have made software infrastructure more vulnerable. 2) The exorbitant costs of failing to meet security standards. 3) The most effective development testing solution for improving application security.

Getting Down to Business: Leveraging the Right Static Analysis , Embedded Computing Design  by Arthur Hicken (Evangelist), Wayne Ariola (Chief Strategy Officer), Adam Trujillo (Technical Writer)

There are different implementations of static analysis that serve different purposes in the development process. The proper implementation of the right technologies is the difference between wasting time and money and reaching new software development heights.

Service Virtualization for Mobile App Development & Testing   by Wayne Ariola (Chief Strategy Officer)

Why is service virtualization a "must have" for effective mobile app development & testing?

Parasoft Development Testing Platform Data Sheet - 584 KB PDF

The Development Testing Platform automates static analysis, unit testing, peer code review, coverage analysis, runtime error detection, as well as accurately and objectively measures productivity and application quality.

Parasoft and "Service Virtualization" Testing: A Good Idea , Thoughts From a Software IT Analyst

This service virtualization analysis declares the gains from Parasoft & service virtualization are clear and potentially company-reputation-saving.

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.

False Positives in Static Code Analysis   by Arthur Hicken (Evangelist), Cynthia Dunlop (Lead Technical Writer)

"Too many false positives" is one the most common excuses for avoiding static analysis. This blog explores what "false positives" really are gives tips on how to manage them.

Give Your Static Analysis Process the Love it Deserves   by Arthur Hicken (Evangelist), Cynthia Dunlop (Lead Technical Writer)

Get tips for expanding and optimizing your team’s static analysis process.

Java Application Security eKit

In this Java Development Security eKit, you'll gain insight on how to reduce risks of cyber attacks, such as DDoS and SQL injections.

Get Your Static Analysis Tool in Sync with Your Policies & Priorities   by Arthur Hicken (Evangelist), Cynthia Dunlop (Lead Technical Writer)

Provides a few quick tips for getting your static analysis tool in sync with your team’s policies and priorities.

Static Analysis Tools: When Less is More   by Arthur Hicken (Evangelist), Cynthia Dunlop (Lead Technical Writer)

Is your static analysis tool reporting an overwhelming number of violations? Try these 2 tips for slimming down your static analysis tool’s violation reports.

Developers Making Business Decisions ?!?   by Wayne Ariola (Chief Strategy Officer)

Without a clearly-defined policy that sets expectations on how software is to be designed and developed, developers are left to fill in certain business-related blanks. In most cases, this isn’t the developers’ strong suit.

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.

SYS-CON.tv: Service Virtualization Technology

"One of the last things always addressed on every wave of technology is quality & testing. This is where service virtualization, a type of virtualization that resides in the API level, comes in really handy…"

Do your Developers Make Business Decisions? , SD Times  by Wayne Ariola (Chief Strategy Officer), Adam Trujillo (Technical Writer)

In the absence of a clearly defined policy that sets expectations on how software is to be designed and developed, developers are left to fill in certain business-related blanks. In most cases, this isn’t the developers’ strong suit.

How the Grinch Stole Testing

Learn why static analysis and other development testing practices are so noisy & get tips for cutting back on all that noise, noise, noise!

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.

Parasoft TV - Testing REST, JSON, JMS, MQ, TIBCO & More- Oh My!

Learn how Parasoft SOAtest simplifies the management of multiple protocol & message types within a single test suite

Parasoft TV - Testing APIs for Mobile Applications

Learn how Parasoft SOAtest can help you deliver APIs that satisfy expectations for security, reliability, and performance.

10 Reasons to be Thankful for Service Virtualization and Simulated Test Environments   by Wayne Ariola (Chief Strategy Officer), Cynthia Dunlop (Lead Technical Writer)

10 reasons why software development teams should be thankful for service virtualization and simulated test environments.

Embedded Software Testing at Center of Voting Machine Row   by Adam Trujillo (Technical Writer)

A recent voting machine controversy appears related to a lack of a software verification policy in the development testing process.

Automotive Software Development Testing and Compliance eKit

Learn about ISO 26262, MISRA and Parasoft's flagship software development testing solution, C/C++test.

Parasoft TV: Accelerate Testing with Service Virtualization

Learn how to 1) Capture and simulate real system behavior for 24/7 access, 2) Easily emulate performance & error conditions 3) Flexibly provision complete test environments and/or individual components

Close the Geek Gap Between Business Needs & Development Activity   by Wayne Ariola (Chief Strategy Officer), Adam Trujillo (Technical Writer)

Learn how a centralized development testing platform can bridge the gap between business objectives and software development activities.

What's Frightening? Test Environment Access   by Wayne Ariola (Chief Strategy Officer), Cynthia Dunlop (Lead Technical Writer)

Test environment access access constraints can halt developers and testers in their tracks. Learn how service virtualization can help.

Parasoft TV: Getting More Out of Your Development Testing

Watch this Parasoft - Electric Cloud webinar to learn what development testing is, the cost of errors in development, prevention techniques, common hurdles in development testing, and much more.

Development Testing Platform eKit

Explains how Parasoft provides the industry's most comprehensive Development Testing platform—automating static analysis, unit testing, code coverage analysis, runtime error detection, peer code review, traceability, and more within a policy-driven process.

Service Virtualization eKit

Learn how service virtualization drives Agile enablement and reduces application risk—while lowering infrastructure costs.

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.

Financial: Eliminating Third-Party Test Environment Access Fees

Learn how Parasoft Virtualize enables a brokerage firm to increase the scope & frequency of testing without incurring third-party access fees.

Communications: Cutting Database Dependencies for Performance Testing

Learn how Parasoft Virtualize enables a communications company to run earlier, more comprehensive performance testing by leveraging "virtual databases."

Hospitality: Parallel Development of Highly-Interdependent Components

Learn how Parasoft Virtualize helps a global resort group accelerate parallel development of highly-interconnected components for a complex distributed system.

Financial: Accelerating Agile Development through Rapid Prototyping

Learn how Parasoft Virtualize enables a financial organization to more rapidly prototype functionality in order to accelerate feedback cycles & reduce time to market.

Insurance: Reducing Infrastructure Costs for Staged Test Environments

Learn how Parasoft Virtualize cuts an insurance provider's dependency on over 11 back-end systems for each of their 7 test environments—significantly reducing costs.

Utilities: Facilitating Partner Integration & Validation

Learn how Parasoft Virtualize enables a utilities company to emulate a not-yet-implemented API for partner integration & automate the partner certification process.

Financial: Removing Test Data Management Bottlenecks for Agile

Learn how Parasoft Virtualize enables a financial organization to reduce the lengthy wait time for accessing test environments configured with the appropriate test data.

Retail: Enabling a Transition to Agile

Learn how Parasoft Virtualize streamlines a retailer's performance test configuration and parallel development efforts—facilitating their transition to Agile.

Financial: Providing Access to Environments for Partner Integration

Learn how Parasoft Virtualize provides a stable, "always-on" test environment that business partners can develop and test against in order to obtain certification.

Top 3 Mistakes w/ Static Analysis for Embedded & Safety-Critical Development , EE Catalog  by Arthur Hicken (Evangelist), Cynthia Dunlop (Lead Technical Writer)

Learn the top 3 reasons why static analysis initiatives don’t deliver real value in embedded and safety-critical development environments—and get tips for avoiding these common pitfalls.

Parasoft Wins "Embeddy" Award for Embedded Testing Platform   by Wayne Ariola (Chief Strategy Officer), Cynthia Dunlop (Lead Technical Writer)

Parasoft Embedded Testing platform wins the Embeddy software award at DESIGN East.

Parasoft TV: Introducing Service Virtualization with Parasoft Virtualize

Learn how Parasoft Virtualize provides on-demand access to the exact test environments needed for Agile/parallel development, functional testing, and performance testing.

Parasoft TV: Introducing C/C++test For Embedded Development

Learn how Parasoft C/C++test reduces the risks of safety-critical and embedded development by automating static analysis, peer code review, unit/component testing, traceability, coverage, and runtime error detection—on the host, simulator, or target.

Parasoft TV: Introducing Parasoft's Development Testing Platform

Learn how Parasoft's Development Testing platform integrates the industry's broadest array of Development Testing practices within a policy-driven development process.

Parasoft TV: Introducing Parasoft SOAtest

Learn how Parasoft SOAtest and Parasoft Load Test simplifies complex testing across the messaging layer, ESBs, databases, Web UIs, and mainframes.

What Do Developers Hate About Unit Testing?   by Adam Trujillo (Technical Writer), Arthur Hicken (Evangelist)

Results from our unit testing poll for software developers sheds a little light on the development testing best practice.

Software Development Traceability eKit

Learn how Parasoft links requirements to code, defects, code reviews, tests and other facets of the software development lifecycle.

Overcome Mobile App Development Fears through Development Testing   by Adam Trujillo (Technical Writer)

Introducing bugs during an update, anxieties about APIs and platform shifts are software development fears that can be overcome with development testing tools like unit testing.

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.

SYS-CON.tv: Building Quality Applications in the Cloud

SYS-CON's Jeremy Geelan interviews Parasoft's Wayne Ariola. "What comes first is the excitement around a new technology bursts, and what comes in next - the testing and the quality."

Parasoft Service Virtualization Wins Jolt Award   by Wayne Ariola (Chief Strategy Officer), Cynthia Dunlop (Lead Technical Writer)

Dr. Dobb's recognizes Parasoft's service virtualization as must-have technology for accelerating testing efforts and eliminating delays in the application delivery lifecycle.

Jolt Award: Parasoft Virtualize , Dr. Dobb's Journal

"In a group of intriguing candidates reviewed in this Utilities category, Virtualize stands out as truly Jolting product, raising the bar on automated testing and new quality achievement...."

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.

Service Virtualization: Declare Your Independence from Testing Constraints   by Wayne Ariola (Chief Strategy Officer), Cynthia Dunlop (Lead Technical Writer)

Service virtualization can help QA and performance testers break free from testing constraints associated with testing cloud, SOA, or other composite applications.

Service Virtualization Starter Kit

This 9-page eKit explains how service virtualization helps teams create & access any environment needed to develop or test an application.

Parasoft TV: Service Virtualization and Staged Test Environments

Learn why service virtualization is the perfect complement to staged test labs—especially if the application under test needs to interact with only a limited fragment of the dependent application's overall functionality.

Parasoft TV: Service Virtualization: Test More, More Effectively

In this webinar with voke's Theresa Lanowitz, learn how service virtualization can help your organization's QA teams test more efficiently and effectively—reducing the CAPEX and OPEX associated with establishing, configuring, and maintaining test environments.

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.

Parasoft TV - Static Analysis Best Practices

Learn best practices necessary to achieve real results with static code analysis.

Parasoft TV - Unit Testing Best Practices

Learn best practices for achieving real results with unit testing.

Parasoft TV - Integrated Error Detection Techniques for Java

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.

Parasoft TV - Load and Performance Testing Made Easy

Learn how to create realistic traffic distributions to simulate real-world load scenarios, virtualize missing components to test in incomplete environments, and leverage JUnit and "pluggable" code components to load test systems via custom APIs and check code for concurrency issues.

Parasoft TV - Integrated Task Management for Agile Development

Introduces a continuous, integrated approach to task management that helps Agile teams consistently deliver projects on-time, on-budget, and with complete, working functionality.

Parasoft TV: Service Virtualization and Virtual Test Labs

Learn how service virtualization complements virtual test labs—especially when you need to test against dependent applications that are difficult or costly to access. and/or difficult to configure for your testing needs.

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.

Parasoft TV - Multiple Error Detection Techniques for Embedded Software Development

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.

Parasoft TV - Parasoft C/C++test for Embedded Development

Demonstrates how Parasoft C/C++test enables teams to produce better code for embedded systems, test it more efficiently, and monitor progress towards their quality goals.

Parasoft TV - Top 10 Mistakes with Static Analysis

Learn the top 10 reasons why static analysis initiatives fail to deliver the expected results—and how you can steer clear of these common pitfalls.

Parasoft TV - Introduction to Parasoft C/C++test

Introduces how Parasoft C/C++test automates comprehensive development testing for C and C++, including static analysis, unit testing, code review, runtime error detection, and more.

Parasoft TV - FDA Compliance Static Analysis and Beyond

Learn how static analysis can be a key component of your strategy for FDA software validation.

Parasoft TV - Real Value with Static Analysis

Describes best practices for achieving real value with static analysis: continuous builds, email notifications, IDE quick-fixes, and trend reporting.

Parasoft TV - Take the Static Analysis Challenge

Take the Parasoft challenge and see if you can beat Parasoft's static analysis in finding hidden defects in Java code.

Parasoft TV - How to Select a Static Analysis Tool

Presents a 6-step strategy for selecting a static analysis tool that your team will actually use—now & in the future.

Parasoft TV: Next Generation Test Environment Management - Service Virtualization

See how Parasoft Virtualize enables easy, rapid creation of the various test environments needed for QA and development—with dependencies eliminated.

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 Inherent Complexities of Building Cloud Applications   by Wayne Ariola (Chief Strategy Officer), Cynthia Dunlop (Lead Technical Writer)

Learn how service virtualization addresses the inherent complexities of building cloud 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.

Insure++: Runtime Error Detection and Memory Error Detection - 703 KB PDF

This data sheet introduces Parasoft Insure++, a C/C++ runtime memory analysis and error detection tool that automatically identifies a variety of difficult-to-track programming and memory-access errors, along with potential defects and inefficiencies in memory usage.

Video Highlights from the Design West Embedded Systems Conference   by Adam Trujillo (Technical Writer)

A look inside the 2012 Design West Embedded System Conference in San Jose

Coverage Analysis Starter Kit

Read our 20 page Code Coverage Guide to learn how to avoid common pitfalls and mistakes regarding code coverage.

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.

Database Virtualization For Development and Test , ST & QA Magazine  by Wayne Ariola (Chief Strategy Officer), Cynthia Dunlop (Lead Technical Writer)

Explains how service virtualization helps you efficiently develop and test without the constraints associated with a dependent database.

Paraosft TV: Service Virtualization for Agile Development

Learn how service virtualization removes the deadlocks and bottlenecks that occur when multiple teams are evolving system components in parallel.

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.

Parasoft TV: Service Virtualization for Performance Testing

Learn how service virtualization helps you test more effectively by emulating the behavior of dependent applications you need to test against—and letting you easily adjust that behavior to meet different testing needs.

Parasoft TV: Service Virtualization - Gain Access to Constrained Components

Learn how service virtualization lets you break free from constraints when you need to test against dependent applications controlled by 3rd parties, other departments or partners.

Parasoft TV: Service Virtualization with Parasoft Virtualize

Learn how service virtualization helps you emulate the dependent applications connected to your AUT—enabling you to test faster, more accurately, and at significantly reduced costs.

Embedded Testing eKit

This 30-page eKit explains how Parasoft can help you reduce the time, cost, and effort of embedded testing.

Static Analysis and Dynamic Analysis   by Boguslaw Czwartkowski (Professional Services Manager), Cynthia Dunlop (Lead Technical Writer)

Explains how dynamic analysis complements static analysis.

C++test for Lauterbach TRACE32 - 2,892 KB PDF

This data sheet introduces how C++test works with the Lauterbach TRACE32 debugger.

In the News: Static Analysis, Service Virtualization, Requirements Traceability   by Cynthia Dunlop (Lead Technical Writer)

A round up of some recent articles about static analysis, service virtualization, defect prevention, and safety-critical development.

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).

Parasoft SOAtest & Load Test Data Sheet - 1,215 KB PDF

This data sheet introduces the industry's premier testing platform for service-oriented architectures and composite applications.

Software Testing and Quality Trends to Watch   by Wayne Ariola (Chief Strategy Officer), Cynthia Dunlop (Lead Technical Writer)

Read Wayne Ariola's predictions re: switching costs, safety-critical compliance, and market-ready software.

4 Software Quality Predictions for 2012   by Arthur Hicken (Evangelist), Cynthia Dunlop (Lead Technical Writer)

Read Arthur Hicken's predictions re: SQL injection, cloud quality, component testing, Kindle Fire caching testing.

SELEX Case Study - 553 KB PDF

SELEX wanted to eliminate software defects early in the SDLC. Learn how Parasoft static analysis helped them increase reliability while reducing reduced development time, costs, and resources.

Thales Case Study - 555 KB PDF

By applying Parasoft solutions to its Integrated Tramway Management Solutions project—then later deploying it across the entire Automatic Vehicle Location System division—Thales Italia reduced its rate of defective components by 30% and significantly increased application performance.

IMA Case Study - 561 KB PDF

By working with Parasoft , IMA significantly increased the efficiency and auditability of the strict quality process they adopted to comply with pharmaceutical industry regulations.

SYS-CON.tv: Managing Test Environments

SYS-CON's Jeremy Geelan interviews Wayne Ariola, Parasoft VP of of Strategy and Corporate Development . "Today things are being distributed. They're getting parsed out everywhere on the cloud, everywhere in that virtual space. You still need to test them - that's where Parasoft comes in."

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.

SYS-CON.tv: Application-Behavior Virtualization

SYS-CON's Jeremy Geelan interviews Mark Lambert, Parasoft VP of Professional Services. "People who are moving to the cloud still have the challenge of quality. Any time you send a message to a system and need to get a response back - that's where Parasoft Virtualize comes in..."

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.

Making Unit Testing Practical for Embedded Development , Electronic Design  by Marek Kucharski (President Parasoft SA, VP of Dev), Cynthia Dunlop (Lead Technical Writer)

Explains how to start verifying code as soon as it is completed—even if the target hardware is not yet built or available for testing. With this strategy, the majority of the problems with the application logic are exposed early and target testing can focus on verifying the interface between the hardware and the software.

Integrating Error-Detection Techniques to Find More Bugs in Embedded C Software , Embedded Computing Design  by Marek Kucharski (President Parasoft SA, VP of Dev), Miroslaw Zielinski (C++test Development Mgr), Cynthia Dunlop (Lead Technical Writer)

Demonstrates how automated techniques such as pattern-based static code analysis, runtime memory monitoring, unit testing, and flow analysis can be used together to find bugs in a sample embedded C application.

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.

.NET Static Analysis and Parasoft dotTEST , InfoQ  by Arthur Hicken (Evangelist), Cynthia Dunlop (Lead Technical Writer)

Provides practical tips for using static analysis to prevent defects in .NET and other programming languages (C, C++, Java, etc.).

Engineering TV: Safety-Critical & Embedded Testing with Parasoft Test

Bill Wong of Electronic Design magazine interviews Parasoft's Wayne Ariola about Policy-Driven Development and testing safety-critical/embedded software with Parasoft Test.

How Service Virtualization Removes Testing Roadblocks , Automated Software Testing  by Wayne Ariola (Chief Strategy Officer), Cynthia Dunlop (Lead Technical Writer)

This article explores how Service Virtualization provides a new way for developers & testers to exercise their applications in incomplete, constantly evolving, and/or difficult-to-access environments.

Input Validation: Immunity Against Web Attacks   by Arthur Hicken (Evangelist), Cynthia Dunlop (Lead Technical Writer)

Explains how to prevent injection attacks by using input validation and static analysis to build security into your application.

Code Coverage Awareness   by Mirko Raner (Systems Engineer), Cynthia Dunlop (Lead Technical Writer)

Introduces steps for improving code coverage awareness: tools for measuring coverage; understanding the type of coverage provided; identifying and covering uncovered cases.

Code Coverage Density and Test Overlap   by Mirko Raner (Systems Engineer), Cynthia Dunlop (Lead Technical Writer)

Explains why test overlap is generally undesirable, introduces test overlap and the imperfection of coverage models, and explores how to achieve properly distributed test density.

Safety-Critical/Embedded Development Solution - 974 KB PDF

This data sheet introduces how Parasoft reduces the time, effort, and cost of satisfying strict quality demands for safety-critical/embedded development.

Towards Full Regression Test Coverage   by Mirko Raner (Systems Engineer), Cynthia Dunlop (Lead Technical Writer)

Explains how to achieve full regression coverage (complete entry/exit coverage) and why complete path coverage is not sufficient.

The Problem with Path Code Coverage   by Mirko Raner (Systems Engineer), Cynthia Dunlop (Lead Technical Writer)

Discusses why so few available code coverage analysis tools support path coverage: high number of paths, difficulty identifying and covering paths, representation challenges.

Jtest: Java Static Analysis, Code Review, Unit Testing, Security - 998 KB PDF

This data sheet introduces Parasoft Jtest , an integrated Java testing toolkit for static code analysis, code review, automated unit and component testing, coverage analysis, runtime error detection, and regression testing.

C/C++test: C/C++ Static Analysis, Code Review, Unit Testing, Security - 1,108 KB PDF

This data sheet introduces Parasoft C/C++test, an integrated C and C++ testing toolkit for static code analysis, code review, automated unit and component testing, coverage analysis, runtime error detection, and regression testing.

Test Code Coverage Metrics   by Mirko Raner (Systems Engineer), Cynthia Dunlop (Lead Technical Writer)

Explores code coverage metrics including statement coverage (block coverage), branch coverage, and path coverage.

Code Coverage Granularity   by Mirko Raner (Systems Engineer), Cynthia Dunlop (Lead Technical Writer)

Explains what coverage granularity means, why line-based coverage is meaningless yet popular, and granularity levels for test coverage (line, statements/expression, bytecode instruction).

Dispelling Common Code Coverage Myths and Dodging Pitfalls   by Mirko Raner (Systems Engineer), Cynthia Dunlop (Lead Technical Writer)

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.

Requirements Traceability and Requirements-Based Testing   by Cynthia Dunlop (Lead Technical Writer)

Explores how to achieve requirements traceability, which has become a "must have" capability for teams who need to comply with safety-critical standards such as DO-178B, FDA, IEC 62304, IEC 61508, ISO/DIS 26262, etc.

Great Expectations for Development—with Policy Automation , SD Times  by Wayne Ariola (Chief Strategy Officer), Cynthia Dunlop (Lead Technical Writer)

Automated policy enforcement and monitoring brings law and order to the development environment, reducing rework and focusing limited resources by ensuring that your expectations are enforced in a standardized way across the development group.

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.

What Do Developers Hate Most About Static Analysis?   by Cynthia Dunlop (Lead Technical Writer)

Presents results from a recent survey on what developers hate most about static analysis.

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

This article introduces a new breed of virtualization that radically reduces the time and cost of standing up and managing a realistic and sustainable dev/test environment.

FDA / Medical Device Software Development Solution - 101 KB PDF

This data sheet introduces Parasoft's pre-configured system with processes & best practices for FDA/medical device software compliance. It helps organizations uniformly apply the least burdensome practices to produce medical device software consistently & efficiently, with freedom from unacceptable risks.

Inomed Case Study - 568 KB PDF

Inomed wanted to streamline the risk management processes they established for IEC 62304 medical device software certification. Learn how they increased efficiency through automation—and also achieved full requirements traceability.

Unit Testing: How We Eased the Burden of Our Regression Test Process   by Matt Love (Software Development Manager), Cynthia Dunlop (Lead Technical Writer)

When Parasoft started with unit testing, our regression test failures weren’t being addressed promptly as the application evolved. This post describes what our team learned.

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.

Increase Unit Testing ROI: Keep Unit Tests in Synch with Your App   by Cynthia Dunlop (Lead Technical Writer)

Establishing a supporting unit test maintenance process and an infrastructure to drive this process and keep it on track is essential for getting a good return on investment from your unit testing efforts.

Unit Testing: Is More Coverage Better?   by Adam Kolawa (CEO and co-founder), Cynthia Dunlop (Lead Technical Writer)

Argues that greater unit testing code coverage is not always better. Also discusses what you can learn by reviewing unit test code coverage.

dotTEST: .NET Static Analysis, Code Review, Unit Testing, Security - 1,086 KB PDF

This data sheet introduces Parasoft dotTEST, an integrated .NET language testing toolkit for static code analysis, code review, automated unit and component testing, coverage analysis, and regression testing.

Unit Testing: Is it Nearing Extinction?   by Adam Kolawa (CEO and co-founder), Cynthia Dunlop (Lead Technical Writer)

Introduces a new approach to unit testing that is designed for functional testing of cloud, RIA, SOA, and other complex applications.

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.

Agile Development Quality Practices & Techniques: Session 3

This third and last of three 30-minute sessions teaches best practices for development, testing, and management in an Agile environment.

Agile Development Quality Practices & Techniques: Session 2

This second of three 30-minute sessions teaches best practices for development, testing, and management in an Agile environment.

Runtime Error Detection Starter Kit

This 30-page eKit explains how runtime error detection helps you expose defects such as race conditions, exceptions, resource & memory leaks & security attack vulnerabilities.

Code Review Starter Kit

This 20-page eKit explains how to obtain real value from code review—so it's not a burden on developers & a waste for management.

Unit Testing Starter Kit

This 20-page eKit provides practical tips on how adopt unit testing without all the traditional hassles—so you can obtain real value from unit testing.

Static Analysis Starter Kit

This 20-page eKit explains how to get started with static analysis (coding standards/static code analysis, data flow & metrics) as painlessly as possible.

Java Testing & Java Analysis Starter Kit

This 25 page eKit explains how Parasoft Jtest simplifies Java unit testing (including JUnit test generation & TDD), static analysis (code analysis, data flow, metrics), runtime error detection, and code review.

Software Development Standards Compliance Starter Kit

This 25 page eKit introduces proven strategies for controlling safety risks and complying with FDA, DO-178B, MISRA, JSF, PCI-DSS, ISO, IEC, or other guidelines.

C++test Embedded Demos (Restricted)

These C++test embedded tutorials and video guides provide customers and evaluators additional guidance on topics such as setting up C++test for a specific target.

Agile Development Quality Practices & Techniques: Session 1

This first of three 30-minute sessions teaches best practices for development, testing, and management in an Agile environment.

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.

Managing Manual Testing , Professional Tester  by Marek Kucharski (President Parasoft SA, VP of Dev)

Explains how to make manual testing as traceable, auditable and integrated with development as automated testing.

Samsung Electronics Case Study - 553 KB PDF

To deliver more and more complex functionality in less time than ever before, Samsung turned to static analysis. Learn how they accelerated development while maintaining stringent quality standards.

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.

How Can Test-Driven Development (TDD) Be Automated?   by Wayne Ariola (Chief Strategy Officer), Cynthia Dunlop (Lead Technical Writer)

Explores how automation can make Test-Driven Development (TDD) less painful and more valuable.

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.

Safety-Critical Development Starter Kit

This 18 page eKit introduces proven strategies for controlling safety risks and complying with DO-178B, MISRA, JSF, ISO 26262, IEC 61508 or other guidelines.

Parasoft SOAtest Starter Kit

This 9-page PDF guide explains how Parasoft SOAtest simplifies SOA, RIA, and cloud testing by integrating functional testing and load testing.

Outsourced/Geographically-Distributed Development Starter Kit

This 10 page eKit explains how to ensure that high-quality reusable code is delivered as expected—regardless of obstacles such as communication barriers, fragmented development environments, and team turnover.

Oracle Fusion eKit

This 10-page eKit explains how to reduce the complexity of testing the complex transactions that pass through Oracle-driven enterprise environments.

Parasoft Insure++ Starter Kit

This 21-page PDF guide explains the challenges associated with C++ and C development and offers tips on how to address them with Parasoft Insure++.

Static Code Analysis Rule Set Optimization Can Uncover More Defects

Shows how static analysis--specifically, fine-tuning a team's static code analysis rule set--helped Parasoft's development team eliminate defects.

New SD Times Articles on Software Development Management

Introduces 2 SD Times articles: one on how to increase software development management and one about the Parasoft Concerto ALM platform.

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.

Static Analysis Finds Software Defects that Functional Tests Miss

Provides an example of how static analysis exposes software defects that functional testing would miss.

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.

FDA Software Validation Guidance eKit

Learn how one company cut compliance costs 50%— and get tips for your own compliance.

Parasoft SDLC Productivity Audit

An independent audit found that Parasoft's agile development team, using Parasoft's application lifecycle management solution (Concerto), is 8-15X more productive than the industry average.

Software Development Management: Optimizing Project Task Management

How software development project task management improves development and QA productivity.

Four ways to increase productivity , SD Times

The software development life cycle is riddled with inefficiencies; this article introduces 4 ways to achieve astonishing increases in productivity

Parasoft Concerto Technical Sheet

This technical sheet details Parasoft Concerto's supported methodologies, practices, and integrations (requirements management, source code repositories, build management, continuous integration systems, test management, bug tracking, IDEs, etc.).

Parasoft Concerto Data Sheet

This data sheet introduces Parasoft Concerto, a complete Software Development Management platform that ensures quality software can be produced consistently and efficiently...in any language.

Code Review and Requirements Review: Automating Human Review Tasks

How to automate human review processes such as peer code review and requirements review to increase software development productivity and defect prevention.

Software Development Management: Meeting Expectations

How software development teams can satisfy management’s expectation about what defines a completed requirement.

Achieving Software Development Productivity Naturally

Explains how to to achieve greater levels of developer productivity with a natural software development management process.

Software Development Process Improvement: The Time is Now

Why and how to optimize the software development processes to improve quality and efficiency—even while rapidly evolving applications in response to constantly-changing business needs.

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.

Static Analysis and Run Time Error Detection on 64-Bit Platforms

Introduces a strategy for identifying run time memory errors and other defects after porting software code to 64-bit processors or platforms.

Static Analysis for Porting Code to 64-Bit Platforms

Introduces static analysis rules that help you remove memory errors and other defects when porting code to 64-bit platforms

Memory Error Detection When Porting to 64-Bit Platforms: Preparing for Porting

Introduces a process to prepare the application for the porting process: 1. Perform mutation testing via runtime memory error detection; 2. Use static analysis to identify error-prone and non-portable code; 3. Repeat runtime memory error detection; 4. Perform unit testing (Optional)

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.

Porting to 64-Bit Platforms: Why Is it So Challenging?

Introduces the potential problems that could occur when you port applications to 64-bit processors.

Parasoft SOAtest: Oracle Fusion Edition

This data sheet describes Parasoft SOAtest: Oracle Fusion Edition, which provides enterprises working with Oracle applications and middleware an integrated solution for everything from end-to-end functional testing to load & performance testing.

Wipro Case Study - 625 KB PDF

To remain competitive, Wipro needed a more efficient and cost-effective way to maintain the exceptional quality standards that they pride themselves on. Find out how an automated testing infrastructure helped them achieve their quality objectives while reducing testing time and effort by 25%.

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.

Expose Hidden C and C++ Defects Automatically

This 40-minute video explains how Insure++'s runtime memory error detection exposes memory corruption, memory leaks, access outside of array bounds, invalid pointers, and other defects.

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.

Parasoft Agile Development Quality Solution

This data sheet introduces Parasoft Agile Development Quality solution, which ingrains Agile quality & testing practices for Java, C, C++, and .NET into the team's application development process.

Parasoft Functional and Load Testing Technical Sheet

This technical sheet details the solution's capabilities and support for environments/platforms (Oracle, Tibco, Progress, Software AG, HP, IBM, Microsoft, etc.), protocols, and technologies.

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.

What is Parasoft Concerto?

3-minute introduction to Parasoft Concerto, a complete Software Development Management platform that ensures quality software can be produced consistently and efficiently–in any language.

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.

Parasoft Concerto Tutorials and Demos for Users

Provides step-by-step demonstrations of how to complete common Concerto actions, such as creating and working with projects, tasks, iterations, and tests.

Expose Concurrency Defects in Java

Learn how to expose and prevent concurrency defects that cause deadlocks, performance degradation, data corruption, and more.

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.

Siemens AG Case Study - 547 KB PDF

With the constant introduction of new APIs and services, Siemens must ensure their applications are smartly integrated with the back-end infrastructure and are diligently maintained to avoid errors or system shutdowns. Learn their strategy for rapidly implementing top-quality APIs.

Agile Development Starter Kit

This 12 page eKit introduces proven strategies for optimizing Agile development through integrated project management + Agile quality practices.

Manual Testing Starter Kit

This 20-page eKit explains how Parasoft increases the speed, consistency, and scope of manual testing efforts—while enabling change-based testing and requirements-based testing.

Cisco Case Study - 550 KB PDF

To comply with corporate quality and security initiatives, Cisco Systems adopted static analysis, unit testing and code review. Learn how they automated these practices and seamlessly integrated them into their existing processes to deliver compliant code without impeding productivity.

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

C++test for ARM RVDS

This data sheet introduces the C/C++test plugin for the ARM RealView Development Suite environment.

C++test for Keil µVision

This data sheet introduces the C/C++test plugin for the Keil µVision environment.

C++test for Wind River Workbench

This data sheet introduces the C/C++test plugin for the Wind River Workbench environment.

C++test for TI Code Composer

This data sheet introduces the C/C++test plugin for the Texas Instruments (TI) Code Composer environment.

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.

SOAtest User Testimonials

Read what customers had to say about SOAtest's functional testing and load testing capabilities.

Concerto User Testimonials

Read what customers had to say about Parasoft Concerto's software development management capabilities.

Insure++ User Testimonials

Read what customers had to say about Insure++'s runtime memory error detection.

Jtest User Testimonials

Read what customers had to say about Jtest's static analysis, unit testing, code review, and runtime error detection capabilities.

C++test User Testimonials

Read what customers had to say about C++test's static analysis, unit testing, code review, and runtime error detection capabilities.

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.

Trane Case Study - 549 KB PDF

Trane decided to migrate their legacy systems to C++ and .NET to enable more rapid and agile responses to business demands. Discover how Parasoft reduced the learning curve, helped them ensure code met uniform expectations around reliability, performance, and maintainability, and helped them achieve nearly 100% coverage on unit tests.

Native Environments ESBs

This 10-minute video demonstrates how Parasoft automatically generates tests by monitoring transaction messages that touch JMS endpoints - and how we can visualize and trace the intra-process events that occur as part of tested transactions, as well as dissect them for validation.

End to End Testing

This 12-minute video demonstrates how Parasoft enables end-to-end business process testing, validation, and dissection of complex transactions that may extend beyond the message layer through a web interface, ESBs, databases, and everything in between.

dotTEST User Testimonials

Read what customers had to say about dotTEST's static analysis, unit testing, application testing, and code review.

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

Lufthansa Cargo AG Case Study - 551 KB PDF

Lufthansa Cargo needed to develop central, stable, and optimal-performance APIs without affecting the various front ends that were already in place or currently under construction. Discover how they achieved these goals while significantly increasing productivity.

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.

Cisco DSSTG Case Study - 621 KB PDF

Cisco DSSTG wanted to automate its Test-Driven Development (TDD)-based testing infrastructure and further enhance testing collaboration between development and QA. Find out how they increased test coverage by 25%, testing productivity by 50%, and rapidly delivered quality software that is highly valued by their clients.

Rethinking Software , Forbes

Explores why writing and fixing applications remains a persistent pain point for most companies.

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.

MedicAlert Case Study - 554 KB PDF

MedicAlert needed to accelerate its ability to roll out new services in a secure and effective fashion. Learn how they established a process for managing the functional, security, and performance testing challenges associated with their new capabilities and offerings.

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.

Bovie Medical Case Study - 565 KB PDF

Bovie Medical had been using an outside vendor to perform the software validation required for FDA compliance, but they wanted to improve the effectiveness of testing while at the same time reduce testing costs. Learn how Parasoft helped them move verification and validation testing in-house—cutting costs approximately in half and getting to market 6 months sooner.

NEC Telecom Software Philippines Case Study - 561 KB PDF

NEC Telecom Software Philippines (NSP) needed an alternative to manual code review and unit testing in order to comply with internal quality initiatives while working under a tight schedule. Find out how Parasoft helped them streamline their internal quality processes to more efficiently satisfy quality initiatives.

Security Code Audits: One Size Does Not Fit All , Software Test & Performance - 628 KB PDF

Introduces best practices for applying security static analysis, data flow analysis, penetration testing, and workflow optimization to bake security into the application development process.

How to Fix The Productivity Problem That's Killing the Software Industry , CIO

Antiquated software development methods strangle innovation and hobble business recovery effort. It's time that IT departments boost development productivity–and it's not that hard.

Automate Performance Tests , Software Test & Performance - 3,899 KB PDF

Describes strategies for successful automation of performance testing and provides a methodology for creating test scenarios that reflect tendencies of the real-world environment.

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.

Fundtech Case Study - 560 KB PDF

Fundtech, leading provider of financial software solutions and services, wanted to establish a process for ensuring quality as a continuous process. Learn how they established a process that not only ensures quality, but also makes their QA team more focused and productive.

MIMOS Case Study - 543 KB PDF

MIMOS, a strategic agency under the Ministry of Science, Technology & Innovation of Malaysia, needed to ensure that their lab's search engine enhancements met strict quality and security standards despite having limited testing resources. Learn how automation helped them cut testing time in half, as well as cut costs.

The Next Leap In Productivity

This book explains how to survive in today's economy by making IT more productive, then leveraging that into improved productivity at the enterprise level— resulting in dramatically reduced operating costs.

BITTT Enterprises Case Study - 555 KB PDF

A show-stopping error suddenly emerged from a new build of a stable project. Learn how Parasoft helped BITTT resolve this issue as well as increase code quality, stability, and compliance.

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.

Parasoft Secure Application Development Solution Sheet

This solution sheet introduces Parasoft's Secure Application Development solution, which establishes a continuous process that ensures security verification and remediation tasks are not only deployed across every stage of the SDLC, but also ingrained into the team's workflow.

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.

Ensuring SOA ROI , Testing Experience - 531 KB PDF

Explores the testing challenges unique to heterogeneous distributed applications and introduces best practices for ensuring that they are secure, reliable, and compliant.

Software Quality Needs to be a Continuous Process , SearchSOA.com

Explains how establishing a continuous process that helps the team build quality and security into the software not only reduces defects and debugging, but also optimizes QA time and significantly improves team productivity.

Tackling Quality Challenges in Distributed Heterogeneous Systems: A Technical Perspective , SearchSOA.com

Explores the technical challenges that arise in distributed systems (SOA, cloud, web), and what kinds of quality policies and testing practices need to be put in place to address these challenges.

Tackling Quality Challenges in Distributed Heterogeneous Systems: An Organizational Perspective , SearchSOA.com

Takes a high-level look at the quality challenges of distributed systems and proposes an approach to minimize the challenges in terms of how the teams are structured. It promotes a framework for collaboration and information sharing, as well as visibility from a quality perspective.

How Better Software Can Save the World , CIO

Achieving a quantum leap in IT productivity isn't merely possible–it's absolutely essential.

Jack Henry & Associates Case Study - 557 KB PDF

Jack Henry & Associates began building a new SOA and needed to ensure it met a strict yet evolving set of requirements. Learn how they satisfied expectations around functionality, interoperability, and performance.

Static Analysis, Security Failure , Software Test & Performance

Discusses why a policy-based approach is the secret to success with static analysis.

Software AG-Parasoft Data Sheet

This data sheet describes how Software AG and Parasoft deliver design-time governance, helping teams develop SOA services to meet quality standards and deploy in confidence.

Emulating Systems , SearchSOA.com

Answers the questions "What are the best ways to go about emulating a system?" and "Are there specific products that are better at this than others?"

Building a Testing System for SOA , SearchSOA.com

Answers the question "Where is the best place to begin when building a testing system for SOA?"

Intermoco Case Study - 1,244 KB PDF

Intermoco's engineering organization is responsible for both the "server side" (or database) activities associated with its network operations center as well as "embedded" solutions associated with metering and communication units in the field. Learn how Parasoft helped them double testing coverage, reducing the risk of inaccurate reporting and unit failures in the field.

Optimizing BPM and ROI with testing skills , SearchSOA.com

Answers the question "Can you suggest some testing skills and/or requirements for optimizing BPM and ROI?"

On the Road to Service Interoperability , SearchSOA.com

Explains the importance of service interoperability in terms of internal and external contexts, then discusses how governance and policy can be used to achieve interoperability.

QA Tests for BPM , SearchSOA.com

Answers the question "What are some new QA tests that our business should be aware of in creating an optimized BPM?"

Atex Case Study - 559 KB PDF

With Atex's online ad booking service growing in popularity, Atex needed to ensure the application would perform and function under increasing loads. Learn how they established a process for isolating the root cause of performance problems and ensuring that they do not recur.

BPM Testing , SearchSOA.com

Answers the question "What are some new QA tests that our business should be aware of in creating an optimized BPM?"

Regression Testing Explained , SearchSOA.com

Answers the questions "Can you explain what a regression test is?" and "How do you know for sure if your regression test is getting done correctly?"

Business Process Testing and Simulation for Optimized BPM , SearchSOA.com

Answers the question "Can you suggest some testing skills and/or requirements for optimizing BPM?"

Changing Tires on a Moving Car

This recorded webinar features case studies and solutions for governing the continuous evolution of complex business systems.

Service Emulation Pitfalls , SearchSOA.com

Answers the question "What potential pitfalls are there in service emulation?"

Unit Testing for SOA Best Practices , SearchSOA.com

Answers the question "Can you provide me with some unit testing best practices for SOA?"

Aeroplan Case Study - 555 KB PDF

Aeroplan's Web service team was expected to write more than 50 outward facing Web services in seven different environments–under a strict deadline with limited QA resources. Discover how Aeroplan met all of their target dates and attained higher quality Web services.

Cover Yourself in Java , Software Test & Performance

Explains the basic notions of Java test coverage and discusses some of the common pitfalls and misconceptions.

Evolving Web 2.0 Apps , SearchSOA.com

Answers the question "Do you have any suggestions on how to make Web 2.0 apps more reliable?"

How Governance and Quality Define SOA Maturity , SearchSOA.com

Explores the quality challenges that emerge as SOA environments becoming more and more heterogeneous, with many different interfaces and protocols.

Performance capabilities in a WSDL , SearchSOA.com

Answers the question "What sort of performance information should I look to include in a WSDL?"

Functional Requirements for SOA Testing , SearchSOA.com

Answers the question "What are the newest in functional requirements for SOA testing?"

Rethinking Application Security , Artima

For developers to work effectively in a security-conscious environment, addressing security-related coding issues must be integrated in developers' daily workflow.

Parasoft .TEST 4.0: How to Best Combat Errors in .NET Applications , Software Developer's Journal - 867 KB PDF

Parasoft .TEST 4.0: How to Best Combat Errors in .NET Applications

The Future of Quality Lies in Productivity , SD Times

Explains how a productive workflow can make or break a quality initiative focus on productivity by helping the team work smarter, and the team will deliver better software faster.

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.

Whipping the QA Process Into SOA Shape , E-Commerce Times

Details strategies to improve the QA process for SOA by providing visibility and promoting bottom-up quality.

Change Code Without Fear , Dr. Dobb's Journal

Explores how behavioral regression testing provides a fast and easy way to determine if code modifications change or break existing functionality.

C/C++ Runtime Memory Analysis and Error Detection

This 12-minute video demonstrates how Parasoft Insure++ automatically identifies programming and memory-access errors, along with potential defects and inefficiencies in memory usage.

Will C and C++ Survive? , SD Times

Several years ago, many people were declaring that C and C++ were dead, and Java would soon take over the world. It seems that the C/C++ doomsayers vastly underestimated the languages’ role in meeting the increasing demands for embedded software.

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.

Building Security into Software with Security Policies & Static Analysis , Java Developer's Journal

Discusses why the most effective security efforts define a policy that details security requirements, then use static analysis to verify that the policy is implemented in the code.

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.

Who's Responsible for SOA Quality in a Service-Oriented Architecture? , SOA World Magazine

Discusses how the complexities of the SOA environment impact development and QA roles and responsibilities.

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.

Want to Automate Regression Testing? Get Development and QA in Sync , Software Test & Performance

Looks at how automation goes to hell in QA and offers suggestions for establishing a sustainable automated process.

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.

Defect Prevention , Visual Studio Magazine

Use Automated Defect Prevention as a software management strategy that increases application quality through process improvement

Tailored for SOA: Automated Regression Testing Process , SOA World

This video explains why an automated regression testing process that is tailored for SOA is critical for organizations applying SOA, and explores 10 activities that serve as the necessary pillars for a streamlined, efficient and predictable development and testing process for SOA services.

Unlocking the Power of Automation , SOA World Magazine

Discusses how Automated Defect Prevention (ADP) an approach to software development and management that makes quality a continuous process throughout the software development lifecycle gives developers more time to focus on the creative tasks they enjoy most.

AOL Case Study - 544 KB PDF

As AOL was transforming their traditional subscription-based ISP to SOA, they were frustrated with the time and effort that their manual testing efforts were consuming. Learn how automation helped AOL improve productivity while ensuring the flexibility and reliability of their SOA initiative.

Software Quality is a Continuous Process , SearchSoftwareQuality.com

As the diversity of tools used in software development has grown, best practices for managing the development process have often lagged. A more comprehensive infrastructure is needed for projects to regularly succeed.

Parasoft SOA Solution Ranks Best in InfoWorld's SOA Testing Comparison Review , SOA World News Desk

An independent study found Parasoft SOAtest to be the best overall solutions after reviewing five different testing solutions used for SOA testing.

Clean Up Your SOAP-Based Web Services , InfoWorld

InfoWorld found Parasoft SOAtest to be the best overall solution for SOA testing. "SOAtest handles testing coming and going, and it has an overall feel of maturity missing from several of the other tools."

Dutch Ministry of Internal Affairs Case Study - 559 KB PDF

The Dutch Ministry of Internal Affairs was assigned to roll out the Netherlands' new personal ID system–a high profile initiative with little margin for error. Learn how they met ambitious objectives for this advanced system within a demanding timeframe.

Software Development: Then and Now , Dr. Dobb's Journal

Reflects upon how developers today struggle with the same essential challenges that troubled us 20 years ago: assessing the impact of code changes.

What Is the Best Measure of Software Development Productivity? , ECN

Defines a simple yet effective productivity metric: the total number lines of code in the organization divided by the number of people who are working on that code.

SOA's Been a Matter of Trust , Software Test & Performance

Explains why a visible and measurable quality process is required to mitigate the inherent risk of reuse.

Establishing an Infrastructure for Productive Development , Java Developer's Journal

This article explains how five industry-standard practices reduce the amount of avoidable waste in the software development process, enabling developers to satisfy business goals without compromising their craft.

Automated Defect Prevention: Best Practices in Software Management

This book introduces Automated Defect Prevention (ADP): a practical approach to software management through process improvement. This strategy is enabled by an infrastructure that automates repetitive tasks, tracks project status, and provides instant access to the information needed for informed decision making and process improvement.

Corillian Online Case Study - 566 KB PDF

Corillian Online decided to transition one of its mainframe retail banking payment applications to APIs. Learn how they established a more automated and repeatable testing process that better verified functionality against requirements and increased the effectiveness of QA's testing efforts.

Sabre Holdings Case Study - 570 KB PDF

Parasoft SOAtest has enabled Sabre to effectively transition its software systems to a Service Oriented Architecture that now processes over 5 million transactions daily. Integrated into the Sabre development lifecycle, SOAtest allows Sabre to deliver a richer set of Web services...

Extend Beyond JUnit's Basic Color Palette , Software Test & Performance

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.

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.

Quality Meets Speed - Producing Superior .NET Applications Fast

Learn how to prevent important classes of bugs with minimal effort, save time designing and writing unit tests, and streamline your code review process.

The Long-Term Benefits of Beautiful Design - 155 KB PDF

Adam Kolawa's chapter of the “Beautiful Code” book (edited by Greg Wilson, Andy Oram) explains how attention to good design principles many decades ago helped CERN's widely used mathematical library (the predecessor of LINPACK) stand the test of time.

Automate regression testing , SearchSOA.com

Answers the question "Given the amount of different technologies our company is trying to make work together is there any way to automate regression testing?"

SOA Best Practices - Four Steps to Securing Your Web Services , SOA World Magazine

Details practices for ensuring Web service security throughout the SDLC.

Flow Analysis: Static Analysis on Steroids , Java Developer's Journal

Introduces the general concept and benefits of flow analysis, then demonstrates how flow analysis helps you find critical runtime bugs without executing code.

Stress tests , SearchSOA.com

Answers the question "How do I do properly load and stress test, given that I can't necessarily predict how or when my application complication components will be used?"

Quality Assurance for SOA Through Process Cadence , The SOA Magazine

Explores what's needed to bring an organization's quality process in alignment with the world of SOA.

Web testing , SearchSOA.com

Answers the question "What is fundamentally different about testing a Web service from testing a traditional Web application?"

SOA World Product Review — Testing...1...2...3...Testing , SOA World Magazine

"I found Parasoft's SOAtest to be a well-designed tool that took a lot of the pain and work out of testing and validating a SOA."

Integration Testing , SearchSOA.com

Answers the questions "What constitutes integration and when should I look to do it?" and "Early or late in the development process?"

How to Build Secure, Reliable & Compliant Web 2.0 Applications

Learn pragmatic approaches for implementing effective testing and security strategies for Web 2.0 applications.

SOA versioning best practices , SearchSOA.com

Answers the question "Can you recommend any versioning best practices for SOA/Web services?"

Strategies for Overlapping the Development of Embedded Systems Software and Hardware , ECN Magazine

Explores how to resolve most issues in the software's logic during desktop testing, significantly reducing the amount of time you need to spend testing the code on the target device.

Taming the SOA Beast , eCommerce Times

Explains how a visible and measurable quality process mitigates risk, increases trust and ultimately promotes reuse.

Security As A Requirements Issue , SD Times

Argues that security is really a requirements issue.

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.

Making the Right Software Investment , Enterprise Architect

Explores how to narrow down you options, assess your software of choice, and reduce the risk of failure.

OSS: A Tactical Plan for Building Applications , SOA Web Services Journal

Answers the questions: How can you take advantage of Open Source when you're building applications? Are there any dangers involved in using Open Source?

Bulletproofing C++ Code , Dr.Dobb's Journal

Examines 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.

Making Sense of WS-Policy and SAML , SearchSOA.com

Answers the question "If I want to learn about WS-Policy and SAML, where should I start looking?"

Is It Done Yet? Three steps to checking in your code with confidence , SOA World

Presents three steps to checking in your code with confidence.

Early Testing Benefits Consumer Electronics , ECN Magazine

Explains how running unit tests (or API tests) on the host system or on a simulator lets testing begin earlier in a design cycle, often concurrent with target-hardware development.

Designing JUnit Test Cases , Java Developer's Journal

Introduces and demonstrates a strategy for building an effective JUnit functional test suite

JDJ Product Review — Parasoft Jtest 8.0 , Java Developer's Journal

"Jtest has matured with age and is getting like a fine wine now. There are facets that I discover every day that make me open my eyes and go, 'Wow!' It's a large complicated product, but for a large team it's essential."

Clean and Protect a Large .NET Code Base with Coding Standards and Unit Testing , .NET Developer's Journal

Explains a simple strategy that has proven to deliver fast and significant improvements to large and complex .NET code bases.

The Challenges of Developing Games & Other High-Resolution Graphics , Enterprise Open Source Magazine

Explores the challenges of developing software for the game development industry, and describes the strategies used to overcome them. The challenges and strategies discussed apply not only to game development, but also to most high-resolution graphic development, which is increasingly being performed on Linux.

Understanding XPath Injection , SearchSoftwareQuality

Answers the question "Can you please explain what an XPath injection is?"

Jtest Aids Process , eWeek

"Developers, like astronauts, want to get quickly to the point of knowing whats really wrong with rapid further progress toward getting it fixed. Jtest 8 makes significant progress on both fronts. It offers more comprehensive tools for following a fault across the boundaries of a multimodule application, and it integrates useful aids to the process of code review and repair."

Jtest continues its trek toward code-testing supremacy , InfoWorld

"Jtest was already a great Java testing tool; now it's even better. Version 8 adds more pre-loaded rules and the new BugDetective analysis module for locating problems and identifying their origin. It takes on everything from unit tests to functional tests, and it does not limit your testing of any particular Java component."

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.

Bulletproof .NET Code , .NET Developer's Journal

Introduces a simple four-step strategy that has been proven to make .NET code more reliable, more secure, and easier to maintain - as well as less likely to experience functionality problems.

A Small Shop's View of Jtest 8.0 , DevSource

"You don't need a large corporate development team to appreciate Parasoft's Jtest. Just a real application that needs to be debugged, that needs test cases generated, or needs a code review. Find out why our reviewer fell in love."

Prevent Application Logic Attacks with Sound App Security Practices , SearchAppSecurity.com

Discusses the rise in attacks on application logic and strategies for preventing them.

How to Implement and Automate Trolltech Qt Best Coding Practices with Parasoft C++test

Gain an introduction to the Qt framework and learn strategies for preventing and eliminating errors while developing on it.

Code Quality Improvement , Dr. Dobb's Journal

Samsung Electronics writes how C/C++test helped them improve code readability, produce consistent code, and prevent error-prone coding styles...

Optimized Java , Dr. Dobb's Journal

Explores the performance implications of implementing some common algorithms using old and new language features to help you decide which patterns should be encouraged or avoided, relative to performance.

"Inside View: Parasoft Insure++ 7.0 for Linux" , Linux World

Parasoft's Sergei Sokolov provides an inside view on how Parasoft Insure++ helps developers perform runtime memory analysis and debugging.

How Does WS-Security Relate to Other WS- Standards? , SearchSoftwareQuality

Answers the question "How can you relate WS-Security, WS-Trust, WS-Policy, WS-SecurePolicy and WS-Reliability to one another?"

SOAtest Bridges Web Services Gap , eWeek

"SOAtest helps developers close that gap between Web services and full SOA... That's what will make SOAtest a real working part of the SOA infrastructure, not just another dead chicken to wave over the system when management wants to see people doing something."

Distinguishing a Faked XMLHTTP Request from a Real One , SearchSOA.com

Answers the question "How can one make sure an Ajax-enabled Web application is able to tell the difference between a real and a faked XMLHTTP request?"