Parasoft Corporation, industry leader in automated defect prevention and detection, today introduced a new release of Parasoft Jtest: the industry’s most comprehensive Java testing solution. Parasoft Jtest automates static analysis, unit testing, coverage analysis, runtime error detection, and code review.

Parasoft is recognized by software development professionals as the leader in software development lifecycle automation. By integrating software development management, quality lifecycle management, and dev/test environment management, we help teams deliver better software faster. Since 1987, over 10,000 companies — including 58% of the Fortune 500 — have turned to Parasoft to ensure that quality software can be produced consistently and efficiently. For more information, visit the Parasoft web site and ALM Best Practices blog.

The latest release significantly extends support for a variety of secure application development guidelines and compliance reporting (e.g., for CWE-SANS, OWASP, and NIST SAMATE). The extended coding guidelines are available for desktop, pattern-based, and data flow-based execution. The extended static analysis for security analysis works hand-in-hand with Jtest’s runtime error detection, which identifies security vulnerabilities that occur as the application is exercised during any automated or manual tests.

Moreover, Jtest’s desktop analysis optimizations slashes the time and effort required to find and fix critical defects — as well as confirms their successful removal. This helps teams ensure that the risks exposed by static analysis, unit testing, and runtime error detection are remediated rapidly and efficiently. Specific capabilities introduced include continuous static analysis, one-click retesting, quick mode, debug mode, and more.

Additional highlights of Parasoft Jtest 9.2 release include:

• Enhanced Spring support with static analysis and unit testing
• Enhanced Ant/Maven plugin facilitates continuous integration and testing
• Support for Eclipse JUnit launch configurations
• Redesigned metrics reporting

FaSur Technologies has officially released the automated software testing tool, Lorica Version 3.0.

The first release already has been used with clients in higher education, health care, social media and insurance.

Lorica ATS can test on any web application and is compatible on all major web browsers (like Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer and Safari). The Lorica testing tool is available in two pricing models: Licensing and TaaS (Testing-as-a-Service).

SQUARE Corporation, a leading enabler of smart, connected devices, today announced the availability of TestQuest 10, a new product within the Company’s premier test automation technology suite that brings together key strengths of TestQuest Pro and TestQuest CountDown and adds new functionality to create a new and powerful test automation solution that is unsurpassed in the marketplace.

The key technology improvements included in the new TestQuest 10 solution help application developers and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) get their products to market quickly, saving time and money, by reducing test costs and complexity while also increasing software and device quality.

“TestQuest 10 provides customers with a test automation solution that is the best of both worlds,” said John Traynor, Vice President Products for Bsquare, “combining the flexible, extensible test creation of TestQuest Pro and the distributed, scalable test execution of TestQuest CountDown. In addition, we did extensive product research and added many of our customers’ top requests. The result is a solution that provides greater breadth and depth of automated testing while delivering tremendous value to customers.”

TestQuest 10 reduces the cost and complexity of test case development by integrating with the most popular commercial software development environment, Microsoft Visual Studio, as well as popular software version control systems. This integration helps customers get started quickly without needing to learn an entirely new set of tools. TestQuest 10 supports test development using any language that supports the .NET common language runtime (CLR), including C#, Visual Basic, IronPython, IronRuby, and others.

TestQuest 10 lowers the cost of each test pass while increasing test execution accuracy. Scalable automation enables test cases to be reused multiple times across multiple devices and also reduces the mental and physical strain caused by repetitive manual testing. Testing productivity can be further increased through distributed test execution, which provides customers with the ability to test using geographically distributed development and test teams. Additional productivity savings are gained by the product integrating with Microsoft Test and many popular third-party and open source testing tools which allows teams familiar with these tools to be immediately productive with TestQuest 10.

“The TestQuest 10 solution mimics the actual type of interaction a human would have with a device without the limitations, strain and errors associated with manual testing. The automation features in TestQuest 10 can also improve the quality of testing,” Traynor continued. “It provides testing that’s similar to what would be encountered in the real world — across multiple environments, in different geographies, and with varied hardware — so developers and device manufacturers can detect defects that might not otherwise arise in a single location or test environment.”

TestQuest 10 accelerates customers’ time to market by allowing test development and test execution to start with desktop prototypes, device emulators and simulators, even before production hardware is available. Customers can then transition testing to production devices and execute tests without changing any underlying test code.

TestQuest 10 supports test development and execution under 32- and 64-bit Windows 7 environments and various target device types including those running Android and Windows Embedded platforms. The new product also features improved intelligent text recognition (ITR) across all supported language sets.

The additional language capabilities in the product demonstrate the Bsquare commitment to internationalization and localization, especially for the Asia Pacific market. Compared to prior test automation products, customers will see up to a 92% processing speed improvement for major European languages and up to a 40% increase in accuracy for Chinese, Japanese and Korean.

Additional information about TestQuest is available at: http://bsquare.com/automated-testing-tools.aspx.

Gorilla Logic, (www.gorillalogic.com), a leader in enterprise application development services and creators of open source test tools for mobile and rich Internet applications, recently demonstrated the latest release of its popular open source testing tool, FoneMonkey, to a packed audience at Boulder’s local iOSMeet-up event. Local technologists seeking practical tips for iPhone and iPad App development learned how FoneMonkey improves application quality by automating the detection of bugs prior to release. The product helps shorten time-to-market and reduces development and testing costs by lowering the need for resource-intensive manual testing processes.

Gorilla Logic’s passion for delivering quality software applications for enterprise customers led to the creation of FoneMonkey. It is the only test tool for iOS that records all actions with the iPhone or iPad while in use and plays them back as a test script at any time. It enables the interactive creation, editing and playback of automation scripts that exercise an application’s user interface. Using FoneMonkey, developers and quality assurance team members can create suites of tests that automate and perform user operation sequences, and then verify results. FoneMonkey supports development as well as QA testing, and tests can easily be incorporated into continuous integration environments.

“The strong turnout for the FoneMonkey demo shows how important iPhone and iPad applications have become to organizations of all types and sizes,” said Stu Stern, CEO of Gorilla Logic. “Since the launch of FoneMonkey we have witnessed unprecedented downloads as developers continue to seek tools and services which enable them to deliver quality software.”

Gorilla Logic continues to lead in developing open-source automated test tools for emerging development platforms. Gorilla Logic’s open source testing tools have grown out of the company’s extensive experience providing mobile, web and rich Internet application development services to customers, from Fortune 500 companies to next-generation Internet start-ups.

For further information or to download FoneMonkey or FlexMonkey please visit (http://www.gorillalogic.com/what-we-bring/open-source).

TestPlant, the developer of robotic test tool product eggPlant, has announced the release of its most advanced revision to date – eggPlant v11.

eggPlant is a powerful test tool that creates a visual depiction of GUIs and screens, enabling software test engineers to automate the testing of screens through ‘search and compare’. This technique is entirely non-invasive – a unique and invaluable feature for testers in industries such as defense, security, media and medical devices.
The new version of eggPlant adds a number of new features that will enhance the ease and efficiency of automation testing. These include a fully integrated Optical Character Recognition (OCR) engine driven by ABBYY, the leader in commercial OCR; SenseTalk scripting improvements and script search enhancements and full support for Mac OS X Lion.

George Mackintosh, chief executive for TestPlant said: “Software development and testing is an extremely important, challenging and highly-specialist field that can be aided significantly by adding intelligent automation wherever possible. However, test automation in itself isn’t an infallible solution to the many pain-points experienced by software test engineers. That is why we developed the first version of eggPlant, an intelligent robotic visual test tool that looks at and tests screens in a similar way to an expert human eye. And that is also why we continue to revise and improve eggPlant with smart features such as OCR and native Mac OS X Lion support that meet the exacting demands of the software testing industry and make the lives of the engineers we value so highly that little bit easier.”

All existing eggPlant users will be able to upgrade within their existing contracts, with the OCR engine automatically installed without the need for any reconfiguration. The new OCR feature in particular has been added in direct response to heavy demand from eggPlant’s existing 500-strong user community.

TestPlant’s extensive beta testing has seen dramatic results for OCR across industries, including:
●Defense – Better cross-platform and secure end-to-end testing of mission critical systems.
●Mobile – Validating text across platforms is now easier and faster
●Finance – Better data driven testing of trading, forex apps and online banking
●Retail – Testing point of sale terminals. BI and ERP systems becomes easier
●Media and Gaming – Better text recognition in Flash applications
●Healthcare – Enhanced text recognition on healthcare devices
eggPlant v11 will be available in August 2011 on Windows, Mac and Linux platforms.

Joe O’Brien, co-founder of EdgeCase and his development team took a big idea and turned it into reality in seven months. What was the big idea? Build a software testing product that allows testers to create scripts using plain English, and then execute those scripts in the cloud. The result was Janova.

How did the Edgecase development team build a product that was both new and complex in such a short time? Using the combination of Ruby programming language and an agile software development process.

“When we came up with the idea for Janova we saw a need for a simple and inexpensive way to test software,” said Brian Lusenhop, Director of Product Management at Janova. “We wanted to use open source software and design it so testing could be done in plain English which eliminates the need for business analysts to understand code.”

The goal was to reduce the cost of testing. The Janova team had seen how standard software testing techniques drove up infrastructure costs and created bottlenecks by tying up machines while testers ran long scripts. And they’d seen the struggle of business analysts who didn’t know “code-speak” and were struggling to work well with the IT development teams.

Using open source technology and an agile process reduced the cost of product development. “Aside from the flexibility you get with agile software development, it minimizes the cost of change,” said O’Brien. “And not just during the development process which is when most people worry about those kinds of costs. It saves over the entire life of the product, which is when maintenance costs can become burdensome.”

But creating a software testing product that could execute plain English testing scripts using open source software, whether it was the Ruby programming language or some other open source technology wasn’t going to be enough. Lusenhop wanted his tool to run in the cloud. “The idea of running it as software as a service (SaaS) was new. No one else was doing that, and we didn’t even know if it could be done.”

O’Brien told them it was possible in a meeting that took place in February 2010. Within two weeks of that meeting, Lusenhop and his team were running a simplified version of Janova as it exists today. On September 18, 2010 Janova was released.

“It was exciting,” said Lusenhop. “We found out the big idea was possible, and we shaved a year off our product plan. Within three to four months of release we had 6,000 free registered trial users.”

Lusenhop and the EdgeCase development team aren’t the only ones who are excited. Janova has been awarded the IT Martini Community Award for 2010, was a Semi-Finalist for the 2010 Tech Columbus Innovation Award for Outstanding Startup Business, and won a 2011 Red Herring Top 100 North America Award.

With so much achieved in such a short time, it would be easy to think the EdgeCase development team is still fully supporting the product. But that’s a poor assumption. “As of February 2011, with the help of EdgeCase, all development and support of Janova was fully transitioned back in-house,” said Lusenhop. “It was always the vision they’d do the initial development and help us build a self-sufficient team. And that’s exactly what they did.”

O’Brien agrees. “My dream for EdgeCase has always been to take an out-of-the-box idea, prove it can be done, implement it, and build a team that can stand on its own. And with Janova that’s exactly what we did.”

For more information on EdgeCase and their agile development solutions, please visit edgecase.com. For more information on the Janova software testing tool, please visit janova.us.

Forex Tester has launched as a very effective and powerful tool for testing out a trader’s automated strategy offering quick improvement of trading skills. Forex Tester is a very specialized software designed exclusively for the accurate simulation of a Forex trading environment. Forex Tester is known to be the best tool for quickly improving trading skills, testing out new strategies and developing confidence without risking any real money.

The Forex Tester software (http://forextester2u.info) is a cut above other Forex trading software because it has over 10 years of historical data that one can use to test any strategy. Depending on the time frame selected, one can simulate trading years of data in just a few hours with Forex Tester. The platform allows it to be run as a free standing separate program that comes with its own extensive selection of indicators including Moving Averages, Bollinger Bands, MACDs, Pivot Points, Parabolic-SAR, RSI, Stochastic, Keltner Channels, Heiken Ashi candles, and many more. Traders can actually choose to test trading on 18 different currencies, including gold and silver using Forex Tester.

Here are just some of the features included with Forex Tester as opposed to those features which only operate under a demo program and why a trader would benefit from them:

- Test trading skills on Forex market without risking real money.
- Testing of various trading strategies.
- Ability to test any time period from the history.
- Ability to postpone testing within Forex Tester and proceed at one’s own pace.
- The opportunity to go back in time and cancel or restore a closed trade.
- Options to control speed of testing (time speed).
- Ability to test a strategy on the same period of history with different parameters many times.

Forex Tester results are accurate and can be trusted as a viable set of statistics that can give novice traders the information they need to determine if their strategy is robust enough to try in real world application without risking real world money.

Perhaps the most advantageous part of Forex Tester is that one can download and try Forex Tester for free before making a purchase decision. The demo version of Forex Tester has some limitations concerning the history length, which a trader can test. It should also be said that with the demo version of Forex Tester, trader’s may not save testing results.

For more information on Forex Tester Software, visit http://forextester2u.info.

Janova, a provider of web-based automated software testing solutions leveraging the power of the cloud, today announced it has been named a finalist for the Red Herring Top 100 North America award. Chosen from a pool of hundreds, finalists are the most innovative companies positioned to grow at an explosive rate.

The finalists, selected by the Red Herring editorial team, are evaluated on both quantitative and qualitative criteria, such as financial performance, technology innovation, quality of management, execution of strategy, and disruption into their respective industries. As a finalist, Janova will present at the Red Herring North America Forum in Hollywood, California, June 13-15.

“Janova is honored to be chosen as a finalist for the prestigious Red Herring Top 100 North America award,” said Jeff Lusenhop Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Janova. “By selecting Janova as a finalist, Red Herring recognizes Janova as a force in the software testing industry, further validating our revolutionary approach to a challenge many organizations struggle with on an ongoing basis. We look forward to showcasing Janova at the Red Herring North America Forum later this month.”

Earlier this year, Janova was a finalist for a TechColumbus award, as well as an Ohio Chamber of Commerce Excellence in Entrepreneurship award.

Janova’s powerful scriptless testing tools have been designed to streamline the often burdensome task of software implementation with efficient, easy-to-use tools that run tests up to 20 times faster, while decreasing implementation times by up to 40 percent. Janova’s simple project structure of Features, Pages and Flows allows for English requirements to become automated tests that execute securely in the cloud and provide detailed reporting in seconds.

SmartBear Software today announced TestComplete 8.5, the latest release of its award-winning automated testing tool. TestComplete 8.5 includes advanced test automation for a vast community of developers working with Adobe Flash Builder, an Eclipse based development tool for rapidly building expressive mobile, web, and desktop applications using ActionScript and the open source Flex framework.  This is the first automated testing tool to support the development and deployment of Flex 4.5 applications for the Web.

Dave Gruber, Group Product Marketing Manager at Adobe Systems, said, “Automated testing is critical to the development of enterprise Flex applications. We are excited to see SmartBear TestComplete 8.5 add support for applications built with Flash Builder 4.5 and Flex 4.5, enabling enterprise customers to more rapidly develop and deploy rich Interment applications for the web and mobile platforms.”

TestComplete 8.5 accelerates automated functional testing with advanced testing controls for RIAs and seamless integrations with the latest browsers for Web testing, offering:

• Automated testing support for Adobe Flash Builder 4.5 – TestComplete 8.5 is the first automated testing tool to integrate with Adobe Flash Builder 4.5 and Flex 4.5, enabling users of the new version of the Adobe Flash Platform to quickly implement functional and regression testing.

• Simpler workflow for testing Silverlight 4 applications – New to TestComplete 8.5 is ‘out of the box’ support for Silverlight 4. Tests can be recorded and played back against the original Silverlight application in the browser, without the need to change the code or rebuild, accelerating the testing process and improving test accuracy.

• Automated Web testing using Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) and Firefox 4.0 – TestComplete 8.5 remains at the forefront of Web technologies, introducing support for web testing with the latest versions of the two most popular browsers – Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) and Firefox 4.0. TestComplete 8.5 enables compatibility testing across multiple browser versions to ensure websites work correctly for visitors no matter what version of IE or Firefox they use.

Michael Labriola, Senior Consultant at Digital Primates, a consultancy that specializes in Adobe’s Flash Platform, in particular, Flex, said, “TestComplete reduces the amount of time it takes to test Flex applications and custom components. Using TestComplete we can create more functional tests, in less time, without the frustration of other commercial tools.”

SOASTA, the leader in cloud-based performance testing, today announced that it has added two new editions to its line of CloudTest solutions: CloudTest Enterprise Edition and CloudTest Standard Edition. For organizations with multiple testing teams, divisions, or customers, CloudTest Enterprise offers a fully integrated edition for performance testing multiple applications across global enterprises and delivers access to the SOASTA CloudTest Platform, the world’s largest global test platform. CloudTest Standard addresses the market need for more agile and affordable performance testing from within the firewall. CloudTest Enterprise and CloudTest Standard join SOASTA’s existing CloudTest Professional (Pro) and CloudTest On-Demand solutions, empowering a wide range of organizations and testing teams to ensure the high performance and reliability of their business-critical Web and mobile applications.

“The performance and reliability of Web and mobile applications can be absolutely crucial to a business’ bottom line, and this is true for organizations of any size – from small Internet businesses to large global brands,” said Tom Lounibos, SOASTA CEO. “With the addition of CloudTest Enterprise and CloudTest Standard, we are adding ‘bookends’ to our current offerings — a comprehensive performance testing solution for enterprises, as well as a more agile solution for internal-only performance testing teams. Regardless of the edition used, all CloudTest customers get the scalable testing with real-time resolution that SOASTA is known for.”

CloudTest editions deliver access to the SOASTA CloudTest Platform, the world’s largest platform for testing the performance of consumer-facing Web and mobile applications at scale. With CloudTest, customers have the flexibility to launch internal and external tests on a single platform that seamlessly integrates internal hardware with private and public cloud infrastructure and test community resources. CloudTest’s patented visual test creation, automated test server provisioning, and real-time resolution allow testing teams to execute performance tests with unparalleled speed and agility, whether testing in the lab or from the cloud.

CloudTest Enterprise Edition delivers the full power of the SOASTA CloudTest Platform to organizations with testing needs that cross projects, lines of business, customers or geographies and require segregated, secure project data and access. Built for globally distributed testing and unlimited scale, it enables seamlessly integrated internal and external testing. With CloudTest Enterprise, testing teams can build, execute and analyze performance tests of virtually any scale on a single test platform that integrates data center infrastructure and private clouds with external clouds such as Amazon EC2, IBM, Microsoft Azure and Rackspace.

CloudTest Standard Edition is a new edition designed for testing teams executing internal performance tests. Delivered at less cost and complexity than traditional tools, the CloudTest Standard solution offers fast, affordable, and scalable performance testing using an organization’s data center resources. CloudTest Standard supports performance testing of any modern Web, Web service, or mobile application in a lab, staging or production environment. With CloudTest Standard, customers can benefit from SOASTA’s next-generation testing technology, including its visual test creation tools and real-time analytics engine that allows testers to drill into live data to pinpoint performance bottlenecks and potential areas of stress as the test is executing.

CloudTest Enterprise and CloudTest Standard extend SOASTA’s existing CloudTest offerings, which include:

CloudTest Professional (Pro) Edition offers a performance testing team full control to build, execute and analyze performance tests quickly and affordably. Like CloudTest Enterprise, CloudTest Pro provides the flexibility to launch internal and external performance tests on a single platform and delivers access to the SOASTA CloudTest Platform. Installed in the data center or on the cloud, and accessed by users via any common Web browser, CloudTest Pro eliminates constraints to continuous, full-coverage, internal and external Web performance and load testing.

CloudTest On-Demand offers a rapidly delivered, turnkey service leveraging the full power of the SOASTA CloudTest Platform. Ideal for organizations with no or highly constrained testing teams or projects with tight timeframes, customers work closely with SOASTA’s performance testing experts to build and execute their tests, and there is no need to buy software, provision hardware or train valuable resources