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QA Systems, the provider of software development solutions, has this month partnered with IT services company IPL, specifically to distribute Cantata++ 6.0 – an automated unit test and integration testing tool for any C unit test or C++ unit test. QA Systems will therefore be selling these powerful C unit test and C++ unit test capabilities throughout Germany, Switzerland and Austria with the partnership expected to bring the company 20% additional annual revenues.

Notes to Editors: This release follows IPL’s 1st February 2011 announcement of the launch of Cantata++ 6.0

With an increased focus on software safety standards, Cantata++ 6.0 has been added to QA Systems’ portfolio due to its broad vertical market reach. The products that QA Systems had previously relied upon were deemed too specific to the individual compiler and compiler’s language, which limited their applicability to only the defence and aerospace sectors.

QA Systems therefore added Cantata++ 6.0 to its offering as it is far more open in its design and is therefore equally suitable for defence and aerospace, but also for other markets with safety-critical software testing concerns such as automotive, engineering and healthcare. This additional market reach is expected to provide QA Systems with 20% additional revenue annually.

Andreas Sczepansky, CEO and President of QA Systems, explains, “We have historically had a focus on static testing and static software analysis and have been particularly eager to target the automotive, engineering and healthcare markets. However, our product set did not previously support such a focus as it did not have the sufficiently open design, usability and functionality required for these markets. By adding C unit test and C++ unit test capabilities to our portfolio with Cantata++ 6.0, we are now able to confidently and competitively target these sectors with renewed vigour, and as such generate an anticipated 20% additional annual revenue.”

Automated unit test tool Cantata++ has been successfully used by customers worldwide since the 1990s as a tool for any C unit test or C++ unit test. It meets all the international safety related standards including: IEC61508 and its various sector specific derivatives, DO-178B for avionics, and IEC62304/FDA Guidelines for medical devices. Cantata++ 6.0 provides advanced high productivity techniques, allowing developers to dynamically and repeatedly prove their code with intelligent unit and integration testing, in the most cost effective manner. It also easily integrates with the developer desktop, compilers and embedded target platforms.

Sczepansky continues, “In addition to the wider vertical markets that we are expecting to be able to distribute Cantata++ 6.0 into, we are also very excited by the competitive edge that such an automated unit test tool provides us with. In contrast to many of our competitors who provide solutions only for dynamic testing or static analysis, we are now able to cater for both of these markets with dedicated best-of-breed solutions.”

Jim Thomas, Chief Technology Officer for IPL comments, “The process of achieving and demonstrating compliance with the highest Safety Integration Levels has typically been a painful and expensive one, so highly intelligent unit and integration testing with code coverage up to MC/DC level is an essential component for success. Due to being built on the Eclipse 3.5.2 open standard architecture and being able to meet every single international safety related standard, automated unit test tool Cantata++ 6.0 is ideally placed to access all industries with an interest or need in intelligent unit and integration testing of safety-critical software.”

Matt Davis, IPL’s Partnership Manager concludes, “We are very pleased to have QA Systems selling powerful C unit test and C++ unit test capabilities in this territory. This new partnership means we are able to service our potential customers with an automated unit test tool for any C unit test or C++ unit test thanks to their in-depth knowledge of these markets – particularly the automotive industry. Kicking off the new partnership at the beginning of March at Embedded World 2011 in Nuremberg was a remarkable success and we look forward to strengthening the relationship throughout the year.”

Typemock,  the leading provider and pioneer of unit testing solutions announced today the official launch of Isolator ++.

Isolator ++ is the first isolation framework that allows developers to conduct easy unit testing for C++. As opposed to other unit testing solutions that require many sections of code to be modified in order to test it, Isolator ++ allows the user to mock any part of the code without any alterations. It also enables organizations to ensure that their final product meets industry standards.

The launch of Isolator ++ demonstrates Typemock’s ability to now offer solutions for easy unit testing for windows C++ developers in addition to .Net.

Isolator++ enables testing of any C/ C++ code (including complex code such as statics, globals and non virtual method) by allowing the user to intercept and fake their behaviours. The user can write tests with minimal lines of code, a major improvement on other frameworks which require multiple lines to make effective readable tests. The API is specifically designed to make tests more concise, more resistant to production code changes and easier to understand for new users. Isolator ++ works with all testing frameworks including Google Test and UnitTest++.

“Adding C++ solutions to our product range is a natural step for Typemock” commented Eli Lopian Typemock‘s founder and CEO. “With a growing number of developers writing in C++, especially with the increased popularity and demand for smart phones and other advanced technologies, there is an obvious need for an easy solution for C++ unit testing which ensures that the final product surpasses all regulatory requirements. This is imperative for the military, avionics, automotive and medical device industries where an error in the code can be critical.”

FreeFileSync is an Open-Source folder comparison and synchronization tool. It is optimized for highest performance and usability without restricted or overloaded UI interfaces.

Available as a GNU Licence, FreeFileSync uses the C++ language and is free to use.

Key features include

• Compare files (bytewise or by date) and synchronize them.
• No limitations: An arbitrary number of files can be synchronized.
• Unicode support.
• Network support.
• Synchronization database for propagation of deleted files and conflict detection
• Support for multiple folder pairs with distinct configuration
• Full support for Windows/Linux Symbolic Links and Windows Junction Points.
• Lean & easily accessible UI: Highly optimized for speed and huge sets of data.
• Algorithms coded in C++ completely.
• All progress indicators optimized for maximum performance!
• Create Batch Jobs for automated synchronization with or without GUI.
• Focus on usability:
  • Only necessary functionality on UI: no overloaded menus or icon jungle.
  • Select all folders via drag & drop.
  • Last used configuration and screen settings are saved automatically.
  • Maintain and load different configurations by drag & drop, load-button or commandline.
  • Double-click to start external application (e.g. show file in Windows Explorer)
  • Copy & paste all grid data as text
  • Delete superfluous/temporary files directly on main grid.
  • Right-click context menu.
  • Status information and error reporting
  • Sort file-lists by name, size or date.

• Support for filesizes larger than 4 GB.
• Option to move files to Recycle Bin instead of deleting/overwriting them.
• Ignore directories “\RECYCLER” and “\System Volume Information” with default Filter. (Windows only)

• Localized versions are available for many languages.
• Delete before copy: Avoid disc space shortages for large sync-jobs.
• Filter functionality to include/exclude files from synchronization (without requiring a re-compare!).
• Include/exclude specific files from synchronization temporarily.
• Create sync jobs via GUI to synchronize automatically (can be scheduled or executed via double-click).
• Handle daylight saving time changes on FAT/FAT32 volumes correctly.
• Portable version (.zip) available.
• Native 64-Bit version.
• Support for \\?\ path prefix for unrestricted path length. (Windows only)
• Check for updates from within FreeFileSync automatically.
• Copy locked files using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service. (Windows only)
• Create regular backups with macros %time%, %date% within directory names
• Copy file and folder create/access/mo

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Capedit is an Open Source PCAP Based Network Protocol Testing Tool.

Containing a Wireshark Like GUI Interface the app is Developed In C and GTK+ (Currently Supported on Linux only).

Features include:

* Protocol Field Value Modification.
* Packet Deletion.
* Packet Duplication.
* Packet Reordering.
* TCP and UDP Stream based Field Value Modification.
* IP and MAC Address Find And Replace
* Auto CheckSum for IP, ICMP, IGMP, TCP and UDP Protocols.
* Interface Selection For Sending Packets.
* Option for Sending Single Selected Packet.
* Pcap Replay.

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Size is one of the most important attributes of a software product. It is not only the key indicator of software cost and time but also a base unit to derive other metrics for project status and software quality measurement. Size metric is used as an essential input for most of cost estimation models such as COCOMO, SLIM, SEER-SEM and Price-S.

Although source lines of code or SLOC is a widely accepted sizing metric, there is a lack of standard that enforces a consistency of what and how to count SLOC. Ensuring consistency across independent organizations in the rules used to count software cost code is often difficult to achieve. To that end, the USC Center for Systems and Software Engineering (CSSE) has developed and released a code counting toolset called CodeCount to support sizing software code for historical data collection and reporting purposes. This toolset is a collection of tools designed to automate the collection of source code sizing information. It implements the popular code counting standards published by the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) and adapted by COCOMO. Logical and physical SLOC are among the metrics generated by the toolset.

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VectorCAST/Cover allows you to gauge the effectiveness of your test efforts by identifying which areas of an application were exercised during a test run. VectorCAST/Cover provides a convenient way to analyze the completeness of your system tests, ensuring that applications are not released with untested code. VectorCAST/Cover allows you to analyze any portion of your application, or the entire application at once. For each file that is analyzed, VectorCAST/Cover creates a multi-tabbed source-viewer widget containing the following information:

Coverage Summary – provides a color-coded view of your source code that identifies code that is completely covered, partially covered, or uncovered.

Metrics Summary – provides a tabular list of code complexity and currently achieved source-code coverage for each subprogram.

Basis Path Analysis – shows all basis paths for each subprogram.

VectorCAST/Cover Product Summary

* Identifies Tested and Untested Source
* Supports Statement, Branch, and MC/DC Coverage Reporting
* Supports Structural Coverage Levels A, B, and C for DO-178B
* Shows Aggregate Coverage Across any Subset of Test Cases
* Includes Code Complexity Metrics
* Supports Windows, Unix and Linux Platforms
* Supports Development, Integration, and System Testing
* Computes Basis Path Information for Test Case Building
* Supports Ada83/95, C, C++
* Compiler and RTOS independent

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