NuMega Technologies, Inc. (also known as NuMega), was a software company founded in 1987 by Frank Grossman and Jim Moskun in

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. The company developed a

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, now

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, for

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and the

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family.

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/ref> In 1995, the company acquired the Marquis Computing, Inc. assets VB/CodeReview and VB/FailSafe, and hired its president, Hank Marquis to manage NuMega Visual Basic products. In December 1997, the company was acquired by

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, when it became NuMega Labs of Compuware. Less than a year after moving to Merrimack, the development lab was effectively shut down on 11 June 2007. In June 2009,

sold the former NuMega products, the intellectual property and transferred the remaining staff to a UK-based firm named

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, a software developer who now serves as CTO of

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, started his career at NuMega. Hank Marquis, who served as a Leadership Partner at

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, joined Numega with the acquisition of Marquis Computing Inc. (Archived)

Notable products

* DriverStudio *

BoundsChecker BoundsChecker is a memory checking and API call validation tool used for C++ software development with Microsoft Visual C++. It was created by NuMega in the early 1990s. When NuMega was purchased by Compuware in 1997, BoundsChecker became part of ...

(Automated runtime error detection) *

DevPartner DevPartner is a set of software development and testing tools developed by NuMega, acquired by Compuware in 1997, which on June 1, 2009 sold it to Micro Focus. There are two versions: one for native and .NET Windows applications, and another for J ...

Studio *

Java Edition * SmartCheck (Visual Basic Error Detection) * TrueTime (Profiling) * TrueCoverage (Code coverage) * CodeReview (Source code based error detection) * FailSafe (Improved Visual Basic error handling) * DevPartner SecurityChecker * DevPartner Fault Simulator * CV/1 (Microsoft

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on a single monitor) * Magic CV (Microsoft CodeView running in less RAM)

Notable employees

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References

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