Those of you who follow me regularly know that I generally like to keep things vendor neutral. As my bio shows I’ve been working at Parasoft since 1992 on software development and testing tools. From time to time we do some pretty cool stuff and/or get some recognition that I think would be interesting for you to know about and frankly I’m proud of what we do.
Recently Parasoft participated in the Forrester Wave for Modern Application Functional Test Automation Tools and we did very well. I spend a lot of my time focusing (and harping) on very codecentric tools and ideas, but our functional test solution is really second to none. It was great to see recognition for that. Forrester Research said:
“Parasoft has the strongest continuous testing product offering, with a long list of mature features in UI automation and comprehensive functional API testing automation and rich integrations with third-party CI/CD pipeline tools … These features plus the solution’s performance and service virtualization tools make it stand out. Parasoft’s solution also stood out in our assessment of maintenance, reuse, and reporting analytics.”
The truth is that functional testing is a tedious pain and sometimes tools in this area are worse than the alternative. Open source tools in the space tend to focus on a few very narrow topics and lack basic user-friendly functions like a graphical UI. The tools from the “big boys” are not only expensive but in the end way too complicated to setup and use. We’ve managed to make something that is highly automated, easy-to-use, and rich in features. The trifecta of software testing. 😉
To get a copy of the report click here and if you haven’t seen these tools yet, you should check them out.