Parasoft

Infobox_Company
company_name = Parasoft Corporation
company_logo =
company_type = Private
foundation = California 1987
location = Monrovia, CA
key_people = Adam Kolawa, CEO
Brian Hunt, COO
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industry = Computer software
products = BPEL Maestro, C++test, GRS, Insure++, Jtest, SOAtest, .TEST, WebKing
revenue = Not disclosed
homepage = [http://www.parasoft.com www.parasoft.com]

Parasoft is a software company with its headquarters in Monrovia, CA that makes several software development tools that serve to help debug programs in C, C++, Java, .NET and the web.

The company was founded in 1987 by 5 graduates from Caltech in Pasadena, California, including Adam Kolawa, the current Chairman / CEO. [ " [http://www.socaltech.com/interview__adam_kolawa__parasoft/s-0000180.html Interview: Adam Kolawa, Parasoft] " in socaltech.com, February 9, 2004] These people had been working together on the Cosmic Cube, a parallel computer. [“The Implementation of a Dynamic Load Balancer.” Kolawa, A. with G. Fox and R. Williams. In Hypercube Multiprocessors, M. T. Heath, editor. SIAM, Philadelphia, 114-121. 1987. Caltech Report C3P-328] [“Performance of' the Mark II and INTEL Hypercubes.” Kolawa, A. with S. Otto, published in Hypercube Multiprocessors, edited by T. Heath, SIAM, 272. 1986. Caltech report C3P-254] Not surprisingly their early efforts were centered on parallel processing and distributed computing [" [http://www.netlib.org/utk/lsi/pcwLSI/text/node69.html Express] "] . In the early 1990s the company transitioned to more general purpose software development tools, specializing in tools for what the company calls AEP or Automated Error Prevention. The mid-1990s saw the inclusion of support for the Microsoft Windows platform; prior to that Parasoft supported only Unix systems. [ [http://www.parasoft.com/jsp/products/release.jsp?articleId=428&type=1997 Parasoft Announces CodeWizard For Windows: C++ code analysis for Windows NT and Windows 95 ] ] Shortly thereafter Java tools were added to what had mostly been a C/C++ product line. [ [http://www.parasoft.com/jsp/products/release.jsp?articleId=421&type=1997 Parasoft Introduces CodeWizard Plus: The Intelligent Development Solution For C++ And Java Developers] ] During the late-1990s tools were added for Web technologies and services. [ [http://www.parasoft.com/jsp/products/release.jsp?articleId=728&type=1999 Parasoft Releases WebKing 1.0, A Complete Web Site Management Tool] ]

Current Product List

*BPEL Maestro Parasoft BPEL Maestro delivers a production-grade BPEL engine and development toolkit that implements WS-BPEL 2.0 – enabling the development, management and execution of Web Service-oriented business processes.
*C++test Parasoft C++test is a C and C++ testing tool that automates static code analysis (including programming style checking and data flow analysis), unit testing, component testing, and regression testing. For embedded system and cross-platform software development, C++test can be used in both host-based and target-based code analysis and test flows. C++test also automates preparation, notification, and tracking of peer code reviews.
*Parasoft Group Reporting System (GRS) automatically collects and correlates a variety of development data from a variety of sources, and then generates metric reports that help evaluate project development progress.
* Insure++ Parasoft Insure++ is an automatic runtime memory error detection tool for C and C++ that developers can use to find and resolve elusive bugs in complex applications.
*Jtest Parasoft Jtest is a Java testing tool that performs static code analysis (including programming style checking and data flow analysis), unit testing, in-container testing, and regression testing. It also automates preparation, notification, and tracking of peer code reviews.
*SOAtest Parasoft SOAtest is a tool suite designed to automatically test and validate Service-Oriented Architectures. SOAtest automates practices that allow verification of Web services, including four-tier WSDL validation, unit and functional testing of the client and server, performance testing, and regression testing, as well as the ability to graphically model and test complex, multi-layered transaction scenarios and use cases.
*.TEST Parasoft .TEST is a .NET testing tool that automates static code analysis (including programming style checking and data flow analysis), unit testing, component testing, and regression testing. .TEST also automates preparation, notification, and tracking of peer code reviews. Parasoft .TEST works with programming languages that target the Microsoft .NET Framework, including C#, VB.NET, and Managed C++. It tests files or assemblies that have been built to take advantage of the .NET CLR.
*WebKing Parasoft WebKing is an automated Web testing suite that provides comprehensive testing and analysis of Web sites and Web applications (including Web site risk analysis, functional testing, load and performance testing, and security analysis). Parasoft WebKing also provides support for AJAX development initiatives.

References

External links

* [http://www.parasoft.com Parasoft Home Page]
* [http://www.parasoft.com.py ParaSoft SRL Home Page] an unrelated company in Paraguay
* [http://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0000180.html Interview with Adam Kolawa, CEO of Parasoft in socalTECH.com]