Parasoft: Enabling High-Quality Software Build through Automated Testing Tools

From the last three decades, Parasoft has driven innovation in the software testing industry by continually pushing the bounds of how they can automate software-testing practices. In parallel, they have aimed to reduce the testing burden on development and QA teams and make it simpler for managers and team leaders to understand how code changes are affecting code quality and risk. “Parasoft has been driving an industry focus on software quality, with software innovations that bring efficiency and ease to time-consuming testing tasks,” mentions Elizabeth Kolawa, President and CEO of Parasoft. Today, the company is improving the quality of software around the world by helping the organizations strengthen their code in every aspect of software development. The Parasoft tool suite makes it easier to produce safe, secure, reliable, and compliant software by automating time-consuming testing tasks and providing interactive reporting and analytics dashboard that can quickly turn into actionable insights for the team. Their software testing products support the entire software development process right from when the developer begins writing the first line of code, to unit and functional testing, to all the way through the performance and security testing, leveraging simulated test environments along the way.

Parasoft’s portfolio of automated software testing solutions has products for both development and functional testing solutions. Former includes Parasoft C/C++ test, Parasoft Insure++, Parasoft Jtest, and Parasoft dotTest and the latter has Parasoft SOAtest and Parasoft Virtualize. To realize the potential of these testing practices, their unique analytics platform aggregates data from across all these testing providing insights up and down the testing pyramid to enable organizations to succeed in today's most strategic development initiatives including Agile/ DevOps, continuous testing, safety-critical compliance and certification, and the complexities of IoT.

Parasoft’s powerful reporting and analytics help users to quickly discover areas of risky code and understand how new code changes influence their software quality. Moreover, they leverage groundbreaking technologies that add artificial intelligence and machine learning to software testing, making it easier for organizations to adopt and scale efficient software testing practice across development and testing teams. By deploying the Parasoft tool suite, organizations in every industry can reduce the time, cost, and effort of delivering high-quality software at speed.

In an instance, Justice Information Service (Justid), one of the information technology services within the Ministry of Security and Justice in the Netherlands, determined that quickly delivering reliable and stable applications required building and maintaining automatic checks and verifications on both functional and non-functional requirements. These checks needed to be an integrated part of the continuous integration layer in their DTAP environments. After integrating Parasoft SOAtest and LoadTest into their continuous integration layer, this provided effective safeguarding of the required provable quality level and offered the necessary quality assurance that their customers and partners in the judicial information chains rely heavily upon.

Parasoft, being a one-stop-shop, provides automated software testing solutions designed for teams developing software in today's fast-paced development environments across the industry. Hence, their solutions range from embedded solutions like automotive, aerospace, or medical devices, to enterprises such as government, finance, and telecommunications.

Recently, Parasoft has joined the MISRA C and MISRA C++ working groups to collaborate in the safe and secure development of automotive and safety-critical software coding guidelines. "Modern automotive software includes new advanced functionalities, like AI-based autonomous driving, driving an explosion in both design complexity and source code," said Miroslaw Zielinski, Product Manager at Parasoft. "Coding guidelines like MISRA and AUTOSAR are essential in developing these advanced safety-critical systems, to help teams efficiently eliminate the risky code constructs that lead to unpredictable program behavior, safety hazards, or security vulnerabilities."