Parasoft Concerto

Parasoft Concerto is a suite of server-side tools that helps you plan, track progress, and optimize your software projects. It also assists to implement best practices, control code quality, as well as build and test your final product.

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Concerto Product Overview

Parasoft Concerto helps your software development teams increase productivity and improve the reliability of their deliverables.

Concerto consists of the following products:

• Project Center to manage software projects.
• Report Center to data mine from multiple sources, and provide project reports.
• Team Server to share various project-related artifacts among team members.
• License Server to help manage other Parasoft products licenses, as well as watch and control adoption of tools usage among developers.

Unlike general project management tools, Concerto's Project Center is highly oriented towards software development with clear distinction of software development artifacts like requirements, unit tests, feature requests, code reviews, bug reports, test suites and so on.

Concerto helps you find problem areas in your code and processes, provides details to pin-point their root causes, and then monitors improvements—enabling development teams to deliver new projects in less time with existing resources. Concerto encapsulates Parasoft’s 21 years of experience in software error prevention.

Features

Work Planning and Tracking

• Provides an easy-to-use and robust task management system.
• Delivers tasks right to your Eclipse or compatible IDE, through web interface or email.
• Automates progress reporting by developers.
• Correlates tasks with requirements, bug fixes, code changes and test results.
• Supports iterative methodologies, such as SCRUM.
• Provides at-a-glance assessment to determine whether iterations are within planned time frame.

Acceptance Testing

• Provides simple, yet powerful manual tests management system.
• Provides step-by-step testing scenarios.
• Provides easy insight into what, when and by whom feature was tested—with re-test capabilities.
• Prioritizes tests based on relevant code changes (change-based testing).

Reporting and Analytics

• Runs in the background and automatically reports based on your existing process.
• Correlates and presents key software development data in one place; data such as, code changes, test results, software metrics, software defects, feature requests, bug reports, requirements and so on.
• Ensures software development policy compliance with rich set of reports.
• Provides data mining through extensive drill-down capabilities.
• Provides configurable dashboards.
• Provides reports available in XML—ready to integrate into corporate portals.

Workflow Automation

• Simplifies team-wide sharing of test configurations and coding standards.
• Delivers detected defects to the relevant code author.
• Enables effective code inspections.
• Enables automated defect authoring.

Existing Infrastructure Integration

• Integrates with all major code repositories, bug tracking systems, requirement management systems and build systems.
• Integrates fully with Eclipse and Mylyn.
• Integrates with MS Project.
• Integrates tightly with other Parasoft products, including Jtest, C++test, .TEST and SOAtest.

Benefits

• Gathers all important SDLC data from various existing sources into one place, providing clear visibility into trends and behaviors.
• Helps to drive adoption of development best practices or corporate standards.
• Allows to greatly increase development team maturity, productivity and reliability.
• Supports CMMI implementation, as well as Agile methodologies (such as, SCRUM) or ADP approach (www.adpqb.org).
• Streamlines development workflow by automating task distribution and practically eliminating reporting on progress.
• Provides at-a-glance visibility of project progress to Project Managers—eliminating necessity to open and update MS Project files.
• Updates MS Project files pertaining to project progress automatically (if necessary).
• Stores historical data in each task, including time spent, code changes and tests ran.
• Allows analysis of activities that take the most amount of time to determine where efficiency can be increased.
• Reduces the risk of organizational “memory loss”.
• Enables developers to provide basic test scenarios to QA—eliminating misunderstandings regarding the implementation of given functionality.
• Simplifies manual acceptance testing reducing needless bureaucracy.
• Enables QA teams to focuses on testing only affected functionality (change-based testing).

SDLC components supported by Concerto

Platforms

• Windows
• Linux
• Solaris

Source Repositories

• AccuRev
• Borland StarTeam
• CVS
• Microsoft Visual SourceSafe
• MKS Source Integrity
• Perforce P4 IBM ClearCase
• Serena Version Manager (PVCS) CLI and PCLI
• Serena Dimensions
• Subversion
• Telelogic CM Synergy

Bug Tracking Systems

• IBM ClearQuest
• Bugzilla
• Altassian Jira
• HP Quality Center (former Mercury Test Director)
• any system capable of producing files in CSV format

Requirement Management

• Import from Excel or CSV format

Build Systems

• Makefile (C/C++)
• Ant
• Maven