Parasoft Quality Solutions for Embedded and Cross-Platform Development

As the software components in embedded systems are becoming increasingly critical, the attention to quality in embedded software increases across the board. Long-standing quality strategies such as testing with a debugger are no longer efficient or sufficient. To further complicate matters, many developers cannot readily run a test program in the actual deployment environment because they lack access to the final system hardware. To address these challenges, code quality needs to be realized throughout the development lifecycle-using a synergy of time-proven techniques for early defect prevention, assisted by automation for implementation and monitoring.

C++test from Parasoft Embedded enables teams to produce better code for embedded systems, test it more efficiently, and consistently monitor progress towards their quality goals. With C++test, critical time-proven best practices-such as static analysis, comprehensive code review, and unit and component testing with integrated coverage analysis-are enabled on the developer's desktop, early in the development cycle. A command line interface enables fully automated execution within regression and continuous integration environments, providing data for monitoring and analyzing quality trends.

For highly quality-sensitive industries, such as avionics, medical, automobile, transportation, and industrial automation, the addition of Parasoft's Web-based audit and reporting system, with interactive Web-based dashboards and drill-down capability powered by a SQL database, enables an efficient and auditable quality process with complete visibility into compliance efforts.