SOAP and REST. Perhaps you're already well familiar with them, looking to expand your knowledge or get a new perspective. Or maybe you heard about them and are trying to get a better understanding. After all, SOAP and REST are well established with definitions and specifications going back decades. Please allow me to help describe, compare, and otherwise shed light on these two significant approaches to web service and web API design. I'll also highlight some of the testing challenges associated with these approaches and how to solve them. First, let’s define what these are and how they relate ..read more

But there may be one thing that can change it all... Herminio Vazquez, an IOVIO consultant, shares how he worked with ING Mortgages Netherlands to help modernize the delivery of their finance applications by taking full control of their test environments with service virtualization. It appears that the secret to a successful software development team is to deliver competently, continuously, and on schedule. One would say that digital transformation is unlike nature, a process where time follows a different rhythm. Instead, it's like a train that doesn't have stops. And if you miss it, game ove ..read more

In this blog post, I’ll share a couple of hints with you about configuring and using our brand new C/C++test static analysis extension for the Visual Studio Code editor. The popularity of the Visual Studio Code (VS Code) editor is growing at a rapid pace. In the latest Stack Overflow Annual Developer Survey, VS Code dominated the Development Environments and Tools category. It’s fast, simple, customizable, extensible, and runs on the three leading development platforms: Windows, Linux, and Mac. Its popularity is not limited to the teams developing with JavaScript or TypeScript. We often see it ..read more

An Intellyx BrainBlog for Parasoft by Jason English Have you ever had a friend who was OCD about the whiteness of their teeth? They go to a cosmetic dentist for a laser whitening, then complain that it’s not white enough? Eventually they reach an asymptotic point where the surface of the tooth can’t reflect 99.9% of the light, so getting a treatment that delivers 99.999% white teeth would be too costly — and impossible. Test engineers, performance testers, and SREs are obsessed with achieving a five nines (or sometimes, even higher) level of reliability at the last mile of software delivery, w ..read more

How to Create a Container Image With Parasoft C/C++test Part 1 of this post discussed the benefits of using containers to deploy embedded development toolchains. It showed how to configure Parasoft C/C++test Professional to work with the compilation toolchain and test execution environment deployed in a container. Now, let’s look at creating a container image with Parasoft C/C++test Standard. I’ll demonstrate a simple example with an in-container static analysis execution. Deploy Parasoft C/C++test Standard in a Docker Container As a command line based tool, Parasoft C/C++test standard is suit ..read more

How to Configure Parasoft C/C++test 2020.1 for Containerized Development Environments The release of Parasoft C/C++test 2020.1 brings a collection of enhancements that make it easy to use with Docker containers. I’ll walk you through the steps to configure C/C++test 2020.1 to work in containerized development environments. Embedded Development Teams Love Docker Containers Containerized deployments of development tools are becoming the bread and butter of embedded development teams. Even though containers were initially developed to solve problems with the deployment of microservices and web-ba ..read more

The first release of the Parasoft enterprise functional testing products in 2020 is now available! In this release, there are several enhancements aimed at making API test automation and service virtualization easier and more productive for DevOps teams. Additionally, we created a brand-new service virtualization mode called “sequence responders”, which makes it much easier to simulate complex service behavior of dynamic services. Software Delivery Challenges in 2020 What a crazy year this has been so far. The current COVID-19 situation is forcing us all to look at business in vastly different ..read more

A version of this article was first published on the Oracle blog. It’s been a few years since the release of JUnit 5. If you haven’t started using it for your development testing yet, you should. JUnit 5 comes with a multitude of new features and improvements that can save you time and headaches. Let’s take a look at how to get started with JUnit 5 to reap the benefits of the latest technology. Reasons to Migrate From JUnit 4 to JUnit 5 If you’ve been using JUnit 4 for a while, migrating tests may seem like a daunting task. The good news is that you probably don’t need to convert any tests—JUn ..read more

The release of C/C++test 2020.1 introduces the ability to integrate C/C++test with CMake for static analysis and unit testing. This post focuses on how to use Parasoft C/C++test with CMake-based projects for unit testing.  Unit testing is more complicated to integrate into the development process than static analysis. In the end, the executable binary file must be created. This is especially problematic for large and complex projects that are composed of multiple libraries and executables. The compile-info JSON file, which we use for the static analysis, is not enough. It doesn’t provide ..read more

Improve Web UI Testing With the Applitools Eyes and Parasoft Selenic Integration Applitools has a long history of working with Selenium—with SDKs for all flavors including: Java, JavaScript, C#, Ruby, PHP, Python, and even Selenium IDE. When Parasoft announced their new Selenic product that took Selenium to the next level, an integration between Applitools and Parasoft seemed like a perfect match! For those not familiar with Applitools, we have been helping organizations deliver an uncompromised user experience by augmenting existing testing frameworks with Visual AI. Applitools Visual AI is t ..read more