Parasoft DTP (PDTP) is a
development testing and
software testing analytics tool from
Parasoft that acts as a centralized hub for managing
software quality
In the context of software engineering, software quality refers to two related but distinct notions:
* Software's functional quality reflects how well it complies with or conforms to a given design, based on functional requirements or specificat ...
and
application security
Application security (short AppSec) includes all tasks that introduce a secure software development life cycle to development teams. Its final goal is to improve security practices and, through that, to find, fix and preferably prevent security is ...
. The software provides a dashboard which aggregates testing results and allows for compliance verification.
Overview
PDTP was introduced in 2009 as Parasoft Concerto. The platform generates software reports from routine software development tasks and compiles information from different software testing procedures to provide a summary of the software's
codebase
In software development, a codebase (or code base) is a collection of source code used to build a particular software system, application, or software component. Typically, a codebase includes only human-written source code system files; thu ...
. It comes with built-in algorithms that perform various methods of analysis such as
aggregated code coverage and change-based testing.
Features include a user-configurable reporting system with APIs to input data from
software development
Software development is the process of designing and Implementation, implementing a software solution to Computer user satisfaction, satisfy a User (computing), user. The process is more encompassing than Computer programming, programming, wri ...
or testing tools, and the ability to integrate with third-party tools. Reports may be used to monitor and analyze how software is being implemented across multiple builds and aggregated across all software testing practices.
In 2012, VDC Research awarded PDTP the Software Embeddy for the 2012 DESIGN East show.
PDTP includes pre-configured templates for:
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American National Standards Institute
The American National Standards Institute (ANSI ) is a private nonprofit organization that oversees the development of voluntary consensus standards for products, services, processes, systems, and personnel in the United States. The organiz ...
62304 for Medical Device Software Development
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DO-178B
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IEC 61508
IEC 61508 is an international standard published by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) consisting of methods on how to apply, design, deploy and maintain automatic protection systems called safety-related systems. It is titled '' ...
&
Safety Integrity Level
* U.S.
Food and Drug Administration
The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA or US FDA) is a List of United States federal agencies, federal agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Health and Human Services. The FDA is respo ...
General Principles of Software Validation
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ISO 26262
ISO 26262, titled "Road vehicles – Functional safety", is an international standard for functional safety of electrical and/or electronic systems that are installed in serial production road vehicles (excluding mopeds), defined by the Intern ...
& ASIL
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Joint Strike Fighter Program
Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) is a development and acquisition program intended to replace a wide range of existing Fighter aircraft, fighter, strike fighter, strike, and ground attack aircraft for the United States, the United Kingdom, Italy, C ...
*
Safety-critical
A safety-critical system or life-critical system is a system whose failure or malfunction may result in one (or more) of the following outcomes:
* death or serious injury to people
* loss or severe damage to equipment/property
* environmental h ...
Software Development
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Motor Industry Research Association
An engine or motor is a machine designed to convert one or more forms of energy into motion (physics), mechanical energy.
Available energy sources include potential energy (e.g. energy of the Earth's gravitational field as exploited in hydroe ...
*
Safety Integrity Level
The templates combine automated testing with the process recommendations and requirements outlined in common guidelines.
Parasoft’s Concerto 4.0 adds process templates
by Katie Serignese, SD Times, June 8, 2010
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External links
Parasoft DTP Advanced Analytics and Reporting home page
Software development process
Software testing tools
Workflow applications
Software project management