Parasoft C++Test Extends Automated Unit Testing to the Embedded Systems Environment; Parasoft C++Test 6.7 Released

Business Wire, April 4, 2006

MONROVIA, Calif. -- Parasoft Corporation, leading provider of Automated Error Prevention solutions for software development, announced today the general release of Parasoft C Test 6.7, an automated unit testing and code analysis tool suite designed to help software engineers prevent the occurrence of software errors as they develop. C Test 6.7 extends the product's powerful ability to find and resolve critical software errors in C/C code by providing enhancements that allow automatically generated or user-defined unit test cases to be executed on embedded devices or simulators to test and validate software in embedded systems environments.

Parasoft C Test 6.7 now provides software development organizations developing software for embedded systems the ability to automatically generate unit tests for the systematic testing and validation of their software on both host and target devices. Unit tests generated by C Test can be cross-compiled for execution on any embedded device or simulator with test results being fed directly back into the C Test for analysis and validation through the C Test graphical user interface. Validated test cases can be easily saved and reused as libraries of regression test suites creating a comprehensive, repeatable software test process for embedded systems development teams.

"We have used Parasoft C Test to test our new and existing device software applications developed with WindRiver(R) Tornado integrated development environment, under VxWorks," states Flaviano Garberoglio, Sr. Engineer at Magneti Marelli Sistemi Elettronici. "In our experience, we found that C Test provides a good level of convenience and flexibility in performing unit testing on our target devices. The capability of automatically generating test suites for regression testing our legacy code was a big time saver for us in establishing a unit test framework for our embedded software development projects."

The new capabilities of C Test 6.7 additionally support unit testing for cross platform development efforts. Developers building applications that will execute on many different platforms can use Parasoft C Test to unit test their code on one platform (e.g. Linux) and reuse those test cases for unit testing on the additional platforms their application is targeted to run on. This ability to leverage unit testing across platforms allows the broad and consistent application of unit testing without significant impact to development resources. The result is higher quality, better tested and consistent application execution across platforms.

"This new release of C Test provides embedded and cross platform software development teams with the automation and flexibility to fully adopt unit testing as a repeatable, sustainable element of their development process," said Sergei Sokolov, Parasoft C Test Product Manager. "Where quality and reliability are critical, as they are in the embedded systems development world, the ability to thoroughly test and validate software systems is mandatory. The new release of C Test allows organizations to achieve this level of testing within the resource and process constrains of their daily development efforts."

Availability

C Test 6.7 is available for Linux, Solaris and Windows NT/2000/XP.

About C Test

Parasoft C Test is an Automated Error Prevention product that automates C and C unit testing and coding standard analysis to help prevent software errors and ensure that code is structurally sound, reliable, maintainable, and portable. C Test analyzes C functions or C classes, then generates and executes a test harness, test cases, and stubs designed to verify the code under test. You can add and customize test cases and stubs through user-friendly GUI controls, and view coverage details for all automatically generated and user-defined test cases. C Test also checks whether code follows 600 coding standard rules plus any number of custom rules that users can easily design via the GUI-based RuleWizard editor.

About Parasoft

Parasoft is the leading provider of innovative solutions for automated software test and analysis and the establishment of software error prevention practices as an integrated part of the software development lifecycle. Parasoft products and services enable software development and IT organizations to significantly improve visibility and control over the quality, costs and schedules of their software projects through the practice of Automated Error Prevention (AEP). Parasoft has more than 10,000 clients worldwide including: Boeing, Cisco, Disney, Ericsson, Fidelity, IBM, Lehman Brothers, Lockheed, Lexis-Nexis, Sabre Holdings, SBC and Yahoo. Founded in 1987, Parasoft is a privately held company headquartered in Monrovia, CA. For more information visit: www.parasoft.com.