Verifysoft News 2003

Visit us at OOP in Munich (20-22 January 2004)

Verifysoft Technology will present their software testing solutions at OOP from 20 to 22 January 2004 at ICM International Congress Center in Munich. Free admission to the exibition and special sessions are available for visitors from OOP 2004. We are looking forward to see you in Munich.

Autolog becomes QuickAnt ®

(17 december 2003)

Precilog, specialist for software test automation announced the release of the version 1.3 of their testing automation tool for Java and the change of the tools name from Autolog to QuickAnt ®. QuickAnt ® is an environment for the automation of software tests in J2EE projects. The tool allows to follow a pre-defined testing process based on ANT from Apache. Thanks to the definition of the testing process all developers have an identical test configuration. Open source as well as commercial Java testing tools can be integrated into QuickAnt.

> further information about QuickAnt Pro ® as well as for the free light version QuickAnt ®

AUTOLOG PRO 1.2: A complete solution to automate the Java-Testing-Process

(1 December 2003)

Precilog announced the release of their new version of Autolog Pro (v 1.2). By respecting a precise process, Autolog Pro frees developers and project managers from test contraints and reduces the time to market. Autolog Pro executes automatically predifined testing phases and runs specific tools (integration of open-source and commercial tools) over an unique interface. With the Autolog Pro interface, the essential functionalities of the integrated tools can be used without the constraint of learning every tool. Testing reports are accessible in a centralized way and in a common format (whatever tools are integrated in Autolog Pro). As no additional operation is necessary to obtain the project reports on the intranet, information about the project progress is easily available.

A light version of Autolog consisting in an interface of to the popular Ant process automation tool is available for free.
> more information

CTC++ test coverage analysis extended for Symbian OS mobile phones

(24 November 2003)

CTC++ for Symbian Target Devices, an add-on package to the succesful test coverage analysis CTC++ has been released. It facilitates code coverage measurements at the Symbian OS target devices, i.e. at the mobile phones itself. The CTC++/Windows variant has already supported code coverage measurements at the Symbian OS EPOC emulator context.
> more information about CTC++ for Symbian OS

CTC++ v. 5.2 available

(29 October 2003)

Testwell anounced today the release of CTC++ version 5.2. The upgrade is available on all supported platforms (Windows, Linux, Solaris and HPUX). The previous version was CTC++ v5.0.10.

The v5.2 contains, besides the following bigger enhancements:

Introduced 'ctcmerge' add-on utility
Introduced a technique to 'instrument for function call trace'
Introduced an alternate way to allocate the counter areas from heap, which makes it easier to test modules that are freed from memory in the middle of the test run, e.g. dynamically freed DLLs on Windows
Timing instrumentation is now better supported
Enhancements in the ctc2html utility
Enhanced the CTC++/Visual Studio 6.0 integration, e.g., now full CTC++ options repertoire can be used at "CTC++ Build/Clean..."
On Windows the code under test can now be compiled also with __stdcall and __fastcall calling conventions, previously only with __cdecl
On Windows enhanced the Symbian EPOC emulator use with command line mode of use, previously the usage was supported only via Visual Studio IDE. We hope to soon release a "CTC++ for Symbian Target Devices" add-on.

The Host-Target add-on component is so far unchanged and usable as before.
> more information about CTC++

Verifysoft Technology signs distribution agreement with MMS India

(10 October 2003)

OFFENBURG/CHENNAI Verifysoft Technology, a leading distributor of software testing solutions, and Man Machine Systems (MMS), one of the leading providers of tools for coding and testing Java applications announced today the signature of a distribution agreement covering European countries. MMS has an excellent suite of tools to help in developing quality Java applications. Automated code review, code coverage analysis, unit testing using invasive model, and intelligent regression testing are some areas that MMS tools excel in. Our tools are very affordably priced; you can easily recover the cost in the first project itself., said K. Rangarajan, CEO of Chennai (India) based Man Machine Systems. The agreement between MMS and Verifysoft Technology allows now european Java projects to take profit from the MMS Java tool suite and to purchase it at reasonable prices in Europe. Verifysoft will market the following automated Java Testing Tools: JEvolve, JCover, JVerify, JBrowser, JSynTest, JPretty and JMSAssert. This tools come with a no-obligation evaluation period of 15 days for the complete version of the software, during which time developers can even apply them in real projects.

> more information about MMS Java Tool Suite

CTA++ v3.0.1 available

(7 August 2003)
This new version of Testwell´s unit testing tool is primarility made for the sake of Windows Visual C++ (so far the only platform: supported) can be downloaded from customers under maintenance contract. This revision 3.0.1 of CTA++ has the following version numbers in its components:

Run-time libraries, header files 3.0.1 (upgraded, seen in the trace file)
Ctastub utility 1.3 (unchanged, seen in the generated stub file)
Cta2html utility 1.2 (unchanged, seen with cta2html -h)
Visual Studio integration 1.1 (unchanged, usable with VC++ 6.0, seen at the About information)

Made (primarily for Windows environment, but will come on all CTA++ platforms) a technical change on how certain internal objects are initialised. Now "a CTA++ test bed engine" (driver, stubs, trace, etc.) can be used also inside a Windows DLL, which previously was not possible.
Fine-tuned the cta header files. Now a more ANSI C++ compliant syntax is used in certain explicit template specializations. This change should be ok also for the currently supported compilers, that had accepted the old style syntax.
On Windows environment CTA++ now supports all three calling conventions __cdecl, __fastcall and __stdcall with Visual C++. Formerly CTA++ required that the code under test had to be compiled with __cdecl calling convention.
The CTA++ User's Guide in Post-Script format removed from the delivery. Now the CTA++ User's Guide available in pdf and HTML format

. > more information about CTA++

Verifysoft Technology starts European operations

(18 June 2003)

Verifysoft Technology has been founded in 2003 by a group of investors and software-test specialists. The company is committed to provide test productivity solutions that will help companies more efficiently maintain and enhance their software applications. Verifysoft is located in the TechnologiePark Offenburg, Germany and has facilities to serve german speaking, French and Benelux as well as Eastern European markets. In order to deliver stable and high quality testing tools, Verifysoft Technology will support and market the product family from Testwell Oy in Tampere/Finland and products from Precilog in Versailles/France.

CMT++ v3.4 and CMTJava v1.3 GUI upgrades on Windows

(April 2003)

The Windows variants of these tools have been rebuilt containing now a better GUI v2.1. The initial release of the GUI was v1.0 from September 2002. In October 2002 v2.0 of it was released.

CTA++ v3.0 available, introducing CTA++ Integration to Visual Studio

March 2003

On Windows platform CTA++ can now be used directly from the Visual Studio GUI. It facilitates, straight from Visual Studio:

Generating the test bed components (test script main program, test cases, stubs)
Editing the test script with the Visual Studio source editor. Only the essential test-logic is needed from you. The whole test bed infrastructure comes from CTA++, either as being generated or via the test-oriented macros and other services of the CTA++ run-time library.
Compiling/linking, running and debugging the test bed.
Viewing the test results, both in in textual and HTML form.
Use of a code coverage tool is just behind of a few mouse clicks, see CTC++ Integration to Visual Studio.
Can be used to test language entities, like a C++ class, or operating system entities, like a DLL.

CTC++ v5.0.10 available

(December 2002)

The Windows version can now be used out-of-the-box also with Borland C++ and with gcc/g++, besides the previous Visual C++. New (more strict) instrumentation of case/default labels in "fall through" situations. Introduced new means to more easily adapt CTC++ to some cross-compilers (needed in CTC++/Host-Target). Preliminary support for 64-bit applications on Solaris and HP-UX, call for details.

last updated: 02.02.2005

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