Monrovia, CA-based Parasoft Corporation bills itself as the leading provider of automated error prevention solutions, It is buiding on that reputation by announcing a new release of Parasoft Jtest.

Jtest 7.0 introduces Test Case Sniffer, the first technology that makes realistic functional unit testing fast and easy for development and QA organizations. Test Case Sniffer monitors a running application and automatically generates unit test cases that capture application behavior. Simply exercise the application functionality you want to test, and Test Case Sniffer automatically generates JUnit test cases with real data that represents the paths taken through the application. The result is a library of test cases against which new code can be tested to ensure it meets specifications and does not “break” existing functionality.

“Most organizations recognize the value of unit testing, but they don’t have the practical means to deploy it. Using Test Case Sniffer, development and QA organizations gain a fast and easy way to generate functional unit test cases that verify whether code satisfies the required application behavior,” said Mark Johnson, Parasoft Vice President of Sales and Marketing, who outlined the company's vision behind the product on SYS-CON.TV in an interview with SYS-CON Group Publisher Jeremy Geelan at the JavaOne Conference in San Francisco. “Jtest helps teams meet increasingly aggressive release schedules without compromising quality, reliability and security.”

By automating traditionally difficult, tedious and time-consuming tasks, Jtest helps Java development teams who lack the time, skill or resources to develop unit test cases. In use by organizations such as Cisco, Disney, AXA Financial, Lehman Brothers, IBM and Boeing, Jtest has been proven to improve software quality and shorten the software development cycle while reducing software development costs.

What’s new in Parasoft Jtest 7.0

• New Test Case Sniffer automatically generates realistic JUnit test cases for functional unit testing by monitoring (“sniffing”) a running application.
• Extended set of new Quick Fixes for the 500 built-in Java development rules allows automatic, one-click correction of identified rule violations.
• Project-building wizard enhancements simplify test project creation and import.