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Parasoft
Headquarters building in Monrovia, California
Company type Private
Industry Computer software, Software testing
Founded 1987; 37 years ago (1987) in Pasadena, California, USA
Founders Adam KolawaJon Flower Marc Goroff
Headquarters Monrovia, California, USA
Number of locations 9
Area served Worldwide
Key people Elizabeth Kolawa(CEO)Dave Vano(CRO)Igor Kirilenko(CPO)Adam Sontag(CFO)
Products C/C++test Jtest dotTEST Insure++ Selenic SOAtest Virtualize Continuous Testing Platform DTP
Subsidiaries Parasoft Deutschland GmbHParasoft India Private LimitedParasoft Netherlands BVParasoft Polska Sp. z o.o.Parasoft Shanghai Co. LtdParasoft South East Asia Pte LtdParasoft Sweden ABParasoft UK Limited
Website www.parasoft.com Edit this on Wikidata

Parasoft (officially Parasoft Corporation) is an independent software vendor specializing in automated software testing and application security with headquarters in Monrovia, California. It was founded in 1987 by four graduates of the California Institute of Technology[1] who planned to commercialize the parallel computing software tools they had been working on for the Caltech Cosmic Cube,[2] which was the first working hypercube computer built.[3]

During the 90's, Parasoft leveraged technology in their parallel software toolkit to create software test automation tools for traditional software development as well as parallel. Starting with runtime error detection for C and C++ with their Insure++ product, they also added capabilities for static code analysis, unit testing, and ultimately expanded to include application security, functional testing, and service virtualization.

Parasoft develops automated defect prevention technologies that support the Automated Defect Prevention methodology developed by Adam Kolawa.[4] 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.[5] Since then, the original static analysis technology has been extended to include security static analysis, data flow analysis, and software metrics.[6][7] In 1996, Parasoft submitted patent applications for technology that automatically generates unit test cases.[8] Since then, the original unit testing technology has been extended to include code coverage analysis, regression testing, and traceability.[4] 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.[9]

For cloud, SOA, APIs, and enterprise IT environments, Parasoft technologies automate practices such as API testing, integration testing, system testing, load testing, and penetration testing.[10] Parasoft's service and SOA quality technology was first developed in 2002.[11]

Parasoft also develops memory error detection technology that finds run-time errors in C and C++ programs.[12]

Patents were submitted for this technology in 1995 and 1996.[13][14]

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.[15][16][17][18]

Parasoft's various technologies are used for demonstrating industry or regulatory compliance and adopting Agile software development, DevOps, Continuous delivery, Continuous testing, and Test automation.[19]

  1. ^ "Interview: Adam Kolawa, Parasoft" in socaltech.com, February 9, 2004
  2. ^ "An Experimental Assessment of Express Parallel Programming Environment". CiteSeerX 10.1.1.113.8007.
  3. ^ Anderson, A. John (1994). Foundations of Computer Technology. CRC Press. p. 378. ISBN 978-0412598104.
  4. ^ a b "Parasoft Company ProfileBusinessWeek
  5. ^ "Method and system for automatically checking computer source code quality based on rulesuspto.gov
  6. ^ "Jtest continues its trek toward code-testing supremacy Archived 2009-02-13 at the Wayback Machine product review in InfoWorld, October 6, 2006
  7. ^ Grehan, Rick (December 19, 2003). "Jtest promotes good Java hygiene". InfoWorld. Retrieved 2020-07-21.
  8. ^ "Method and system for generating a computer program test suite using dynamic symbolic execution uspto.gov
  9. ^ "Parasoft C++test developer toolkit integrated into IDEs" at SearchSoftwareQuality.com, April 3, 2007
  10. ^ "Clean up your SOAP-based Web services" product review in InfoWorld, November 26, 2007
  11. ^ "System and method for testing of web servicesuspto.gov
  12. ^ "Survey of Systems for Detecting Serial Run-Time Errors Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine" by Iowa State University's High Performance Computing Group, February 22, 2006
  13. ^ "Method using a computer for automatically instrumenting a computer program for dynamic debugging " at www.uspto.gov
  14. ^ "Method and system for dynamically detecting leaked memory space in a computer program" at www.uspto.gov
  15. ^ Parasoft Delivers Virtualize Platform by Darryl K. Taft, eWeek, June 2011
  16. ^ Parasoft Aims to Ease App Testing Constraints by Adrian Bridgwater, Dr. Dobb's Journal, June 2011
  17. ^ Parasoft Sends In Software "Liberation" Troops by Adrian Bridgwater, Dr. Dobb's Journal, February 2011
  18. ^ Parasoft creates test environment for transactions by Victoria Reitano, SD Times, February 2011
  19. ^ "Don’t let Testing Stop your Agility" by Christina Cardoza, SD Times, July 28, 2016