Parasoft

Parasoft (officially Parasoft Corporation) is an independent software vendor with headquarters in Monrovia, California. It was founded in 1987 by five graduates of the California Institute of Technology^[1] who had been working on Caltech Cosmic Cube.^[2][3]

The most recent awards received were the Jolt Grand Prize Award for Parasoft Virtualize, Parasoft's service virtualization technology^[4] and the Embeddy Award for most cutting edge product for embedded software developers & engineers.^[5] Parasoft joined the Eclipse Consortium board of stewards in 2002.^[6][7]

Technologies

Parasoft develops automated defect prevention technologies that support the Automated Defect Prevention methodology developed by Adam Kolawa.^[8] These technologies automate a number of defect prevention practices for Java, C and C++, and .NET. The static code analysis practice identifies coding issues that lead to security, reliability, performance, and maintainability issues later on. In 1996, Parasoft submitted a patent application for their rule-based static code analysis.^[9] Since then, the original static analysis technology has been extended to include security static analysis, data flow analysis, and software metrics.^[10][11] In 1996, Parasoft submitted patent applications for technology that automatically generates unit test cases.^[12] Since then, the original unit testing technology has been extended to include code coverage analysis, regression testing, and traceability.^[8] The peer code review practice involves manually inspecting source code to examine algorithms, review design, and search for subtle errors that automated tools cannot detect. Although the peer inspection itself cannot be automated, peer code reviews preparation, notification, and tracking can be automated.^[13]

For cloud, SOA, APIs, and enterprise IT environments, Parasoft technologies automate practices such as integration testing, system testing, load testing, and penetration testing.^[14] Parasoft's service and SOA quality technology was first developed in 2002.^[15]

Parasoft also develops memory error detection technology that finds run-time errors in C and C++ programs.^[16] Patents were submitted for this technology in 1995 and 1996.^[17][18]

For service virtualization, Parasoft technologies are used to automatically capture and emulate dependent system behavior of mainframes, third-party components, or any system component that is unavailable or difficult to access for development and testing purposes.^{[19][20][21][22]}

References

External links

• Parasoft.com