Delivering quality as a continuous process— from requirements throughout the SDLC
	Download PDF version For 20 years, Parasoft has been empowering organizations to deliver better business applications faster. We achieve this by delivering quality as a continuous process throughout the SDLC—not just QA. The result is a sustainable process that delivers greater productivity and significantly fewer software defects. Parasoft Quality Solutions Parasoft Quality Solutions are adopted by top companies because they deliver an end-to-end quality process that begins with a requirement and ends with the audit of a business process. By automating quality tasks at all layers of the application stack, the solutions significantly reduce the risks associated with developing new or changing applications.

Parasoft solutions address multiple layers of the application and address application quality concerns such as:

• Security
• Reliability
• Performance
• Maintainability
• Process Visibility and Control

They help development teams prevent errors and continuously test logical units of the application. They also help QA testers or business analysts focus on validating end-to-end business scenarios as an iterative process—not a quality task at the end of a development cycle. The entire quality process is supported by an infrastructure that automates key tasks, tracks project status, and provides instant access to the information needed for smart decision making and process improvement.

Parasoft solutions support the following components:

Error Prevention

Parasoft delivers an automated framework to ensure all software development activities meet uniform expectations around security, reliability, performance, and maintainability. We provide a foundation for producing solid code by exposing structural errors and preventing entire classes of errors. This initiates the continuous quality process, delivering greater productivity and significantly fewer software defects.

Practices: Code analysis (rule-based) Data flow analysis Code metrics Automated code review Accessibility (Section 508) verification WS-policy enforcement XML validation

Technologies: C/C++ Java .NET languages (C#, Visual Basic, Managed C++) JSP XML HTML JavaScript WSDL EJB CSS VBScript/ASP

Continuous Regression Testing

Parasoft's continuous regression testing immediately alerts you when modifications impact application behavior. By providing a safety net that alerts the team when modifications impact application behavior, it enables rapid and agile responses to business demands, reducing the risk of change.

Practices: Automated unit test generation Support for xUnit framework test cases Functional test case generation via “tracing” Nightly regression testing Message and protocol testing Runtime memory error detection

Technologies: C/C++ Java EJB .NET languages (C#, Visual Basic, Managed C++) SOA / Web services Multiple message protocols

Functional Audit

Parasoft's continuous quality practices promote the reuse of test assets as building blocks to streamline the validation of changing business requirements. This enables your team to execute a more complete audit of your business application. The result is a reduced risk of business downtime, ensuring business continuity.

Practices: Functional testing Scenario testing Business process testing Security testing Load testing Performance testing SLA testing QOS testing Continuous testing

Technologies: Web Applications Web 2.0 RIA AJAX SOAP Composite applications BPEL BPM

Process Visibility and Control

SDLC quality metrics are fragmented across key systems such as requirements, build, and source control management. Parasoft aggregates and correlates this system data, delivering a comprehensive view of your development processes.

Technologies: Source control system Requirement management system Build system Testing tools Coverage analysis tools Code review tools Manual testing system

Parasoft Automated Infrastructure Services

Parasoft services integrate and automate your SDLC to ensure that quality software can be produced consistently and efficiently. The resulting automated infrastructure improves development productivity and forms the foundation for a sustainable quality process.

Infrastructure Optimization

One of the major hurdles in promoting quality as a continuous process is a brittle infrastructure. The lack of automation, repeatability, or consistency will degrade any quality initiative that the organization intends to deploy. Parasoft is an expert in SDLC automation. The Parasoft Services team provides assessments, blueprint services and deployments for your SDLC processes and systems, including:

Source control Build management Problem tracking Requirements management Regression control

Software Quality Assurance

Parasoft delivers a vast array of software quality assurance services. These practices are structured to take advantage of automation while delivering on current testing goals. The scope of services includes:

Improved quality practices Development policy creation and deployment QA policy creation and deployment Code/test assessment Test optimization QA policy creation and deployment

Development Process Improvement

Many distributed systems hold key data about the overall quality of a software application. Parasoft aggregates and correlates these data points to deliver a comprehensive view of software quality. With process measurement in place, Parasoft adds our 20 years of experience to assist your organization to make credible process improvement gains. The result is visibility that improves an organization's ability to deliver quality software and to continually increase productivity.