Every year, test and QA becomes just a little less people-centric and more automated. Our influencers know this well: They have made their names building batteries of bad inputs, malformed packets and fuzzy logic. This is the only place in software where making errors is the goal. With test software now capable of attacking code from almost any angle, software is becoming more reliable and easier to fix. And thanks to the burgeoning realm of in-IDE testing tools, your coders have no reason not to run their work through a gauntlet before checking it in.

  • Automated QA
  • CA
  • Coverity
  • HP
  • IBM
  • iTKO
  • Klocwork
  • Mindreef
  • Parasoft
  • Solstice Software
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