How Can Test-Driven Development (TDD) Be Automated? , January 2011

Explores how automation can make Test-Driven Development (TDD) less painful and more valuable.

Build Management , January 2011

Introduces how Parasoft helps build masters extend & enhance their existing build processes.

Wipro Case Study , September 2010 - 575 KB PDF

To remain competitive, Wipro needed a more efficient and cost-effective way to maintain the exceptional quality standards that they pride themselves on. Find out how an automated testing infrastructure helped them achieve their quality objectives while reducing testing time and effort by 25%.

Cisco Case Study , April 2010 - 459 KB PDF

To comply with corporate quality and security initiatives, Cisco Systems adopted static analysis, unit testing and code review. Learn how they automated these practices and seamlessly integrated them into their existing processes to deliver compliant code without impeding productivity.

Agile Development Requires Agile Processes , Parasoft White Paper, March 2010

Highlights how organizations can optimize their software development processes to improve quality and efficiency—even as they are rapidly evolving applications in response to constantly-changing business needs

Automating Regression Testing for Command-Line Applications , Parasoft White Paper, February 2010

Presents a new approach to regression testing command-line applications: an approach that uses the graphical environment of Parasoft Test to fully automate the core regression testing process.

Productivity vs. Quality: Achieving Measurable Results through Proper Workflow Management , November 2009 - 489 KB PDF

Explains how to achieve both productivity and quality by making quality tasks an integrated part of your daily development process.

Tackling Quality Challenges in Distributed Heterogeneous Systems: An Organizational Perspective , November 2008

Takes a high-level look at the quality challenges of distributed systems and proposes an approach to minimize the challenges in terms of how the teams are structured. It promotes a framework for collaboration and information sharing, as well as visibility from a quality perspective.

Building a Testing System for SOA , SearchSOA.com, September 2008

Answers the question "Where is the best place to begin when building a testing system for SOA?"

What are the Best Practices for Automated Java testing? , SD Times, April 2008

If automated Java testing is so cool, why isn’t everyone doing it all the time? It boils down to comparing the perceived value of the up-front investment in test automation against the long-term productivity benefits.

BPEL Maestro Data Sheet , April 2008 - 626 KB PDF

This data sheet introduces Parasoft BPEL Maestro, a comprehensive BPEL engine and development toolkit that enables enterprises to develop, manage and orchestrate persistent, long-term service-oriented business processes with greater speed and increased cost-effectiveness.

Change Code Without Fear , Dr. Dobb's Journal, March 2008

Explores how behavioral regression testing provides a fast and easy way to determine if code modifications change or break existing functionality.

The Yin and Yang of Software Development: 5 Best Practices that Allow Efficiency and Creativity to Productively Coexist , Parasoft White Paper, February 2008

Explains how 5 best practices reduce the amount of avoidable waste in the software development process, enabling developers to satisfy business goals without compromising their craft.

Software Development Management with Parasoft Concerto , Parasoft White Paper, January 2008 - 72 KB PDF

Explains how the Parasoft Concerto Software Development Management solution assists to increase productivity throughout the SDLC.

Want to Automate Regression Testing? Get Development and QA in Sync , Software Test & Performance, January 2008

Looks at how automation goes to hell in QA and offers suggestions for establishing a sustainable automated process.

Automated Defect Prevention Introduction , December 2007 - 1,454 KB PDF

This booklet introduces the key concepts featured in the book Automated Defect Prevention: Best Practices in Software Development. It is designed to provide you an overview of what Automated Defect Prevention involves and how it can benefit your development team.

Defect Prevention , Visual Studio Magazine, December 2007

Use Automated Defect Prevention as a software management strategy that increases application quality through process improvement

Unlocking the Power of Automation: Exclusive Q&A with Dr Adam Kolawa , SOA World Magazine, December 2007

Discusses how Automated Defect Prevention (ADP) an approach to software development and management that makes quality a continuous process throughout the software development lifecycle gives developers more time to focus on the creative tasks they enjoy most.

Parasoft's Adam Kolawa: Software Quality is a Continuous Process , SearchSoftwareQuality.com, November 2007

As the diversity of tools used in software development has grown, best practices for managing the development process have often lagged. A more comprehensive infrastructure is needed for projects to regularly succeed.

Dutch Ministry of Internal Affairs Case Study , November 2007 - 125 KB PDF

The Dutch Ministry of Internal Affairs was assigned to roll out the Netherlands' new personal ID system–a high profile initiative with little margin for error. Learn how they met ambitious objectives for this advanced system within a demanding timeframe.

Software Development: Then and Now , Dr. Dobb's Journal, November 2007

Reflects upon how developers today struggle with the same essential challenges that troubled us 20 years ago: assessing the impact of code changes.

Establishing an Infrastructure for Productive Development , Java Developer's Journal, September 2007

This article explains how five industry-standard practices reduce the amount of avoidable waste in the software development process, enabling developers to satisfy business goals without compromising their craft.

Automated Defect Prevention: Best Practices in Software Management , September 2007

This book introduces Automated Defect Prevention (ADP): a practical approach to software management through process improvement. This strategy is enabled by an infrastructure that automates repetitive tasks, tracks project status, and provides instant access to the information needed for informed decision making and process improvement.

Corillian Case Study , August 2007 - 1,029 KB PDF

Corillian decided to transition one of its mainframe retail banking payment applications to SOA. Learn how they established a more automated and repeatable testing process that better verified functionality against requirements and increased the effectiveness of QA's testing efforts.

Infrastructure for Productive Development , July 2007

Learn how to reduce the amount of avoidable waste in the software development process, enabling developers to satisfy business goals without compromising their craft.

Automate regression testing , SearchSOA.com, May 2007

Answers the question "Given the amount of different technologies our company is trying to make work together is there any way to automate regression testing?"

Quality Assurance for SOA Through Process Cadence , The SOA Magazine, May 2007

Explores what's needed to bring an organization's quality process in alignment with the world of SOA.

SOA versioning best practices , SearchSOA.com, April 2007

Answers the question "Can you recommend any versioning best practices for SOA/Web services?"

Making the Right Software Investment , Enterprise Architect, January 2007

Explores how to narrow down you options, assess your software of choice, and reduce the risk of failure.

OSS: A Tactical Plan for Building Applications , SOA Web Services Journal, January 2007

Answers the questions: How can you take advantage of Open Source when you're building applications? Are there any dangers involved in using Open Source?

AIG - United Guaranty Case Study , January 2006 - 1,179 KB PDF

Software defects were resulting in sporadic downtime for AIG Guaranty's applications, disrupting the business processes that relied on them. Learn how they established a continuous quality process that not only addressed these availability problems, but also saves them more than $400,000 annually.

Choosing the Best Testing Tools to Increase Project Productivity , SOA World, December 2005

Explains how to choose testing tools that increase productivity by helping the team prevent errors from the earliest phases of the software development lifecycle.

Making Your Testing Technologies Work for You , Wrox Press, October 2005

Outlines policies for getting the most out of your testing technologies.

Making Your Automated Build System Work for You: Example , Wrox Press, September 2005

Provides examples of how those build best practices can be applied to an actual build process.

Establishing a Foundation for Improving Software Quality , Enterprise Systems, May 2005

Explains how optimizing group culture, source control, and automated builds lay the foundation for developing quality software.

Making Your Regression System Work for You , Wrox Press, May 2005

Explains how to ensure that your regression system will identify all actual code base regressions as soon as possible — without reporting false positives.

Making Your Automated Build System Work for You , Wrox Press, April 2005

Provides tips for ensuring that your automated build process provides early detection of incompatible changes in the application components, ensures that the application continues to run as expected, and detects any errors introduced by newly integrated code.

Making Your Bug Tracking System Work for You , Wrox Press, March 2005

Outlines what type of information should be entered into a bug-tracking system during development and after code freeze, and how to use the information when designing future product versions.

Making Your Requirements Management System Work for You , Wrox Press, March 2005

Introduces requirements management tips that help you determine whether a requirement is truly implemented.

Web Service Orchestration: Rationale for a BPEL Integration Platform , December 2004 - 64 KB PDF

BPEL processes need to be executed by a runtime engine that supports a number of requirements, including native support for Web service standards as well as asynchronous messaging, process persistence, and transactional models consistent with long-term processes. This paper explains how the BPEL Maestro native BPEL integration platform supports these requirements.

Lehman Brothers: Outsourcing & Code Quality Management , November 2004

Learn how the adoption of unit testing and static code analysis allowed Lehman to control the quality of code delivered by outsourcers, enhance the productivity of its development staff, improve the overall reliability of its applications, and create consistent predictability of project release dates.

Bulletproof Web Services: Follow Basic Principles , SOA World, August 2004

Explores the nuts and bolts of implementing and deploying a bulletproof Web service.

Automating Builds on Linux , Linux Journal, June 2004

Why nightly builds improve code integrity and how to incorporate them into your product's lifecycle.