The 15th Annual Software Development Jolt Product Excellence Awards for testing software and test project defect management products:
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| Agitar Agitator and Dashboard 2.0 (Agitar) | Agitator is the ground-breaking software product that helps software development teams implement Developer Testing (a.k.a. unit testing). Teams that have tried manual creation of unit tests, will find that the automation provided by Agitator makes developer testing practical for the first time. Organizations that have deployed automated solutions for requirements management, configurations management, systems, load, and performance testing will find that Agitator is the perfect complement to deliver improved software quality and reduced overall software lifecycle costs.
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| Eclipse Test & Performance Tools Platform (TPTP) and Testing Tool 3.0 (the Eclipse Foundation) | The project provides an open development platform supplying frameworks and services for test and performance tools that are used throughout the software lifecycle (e.g., testing, tracing/profiling, tuning, logging, monitoring, analysis, autonomics, administration, etc.) Included in this platform are data collection services and user interfaces for tracing, test case execution, logging and statistical behavior in local or remote execution environments.
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| Jmeter 2.0 (The Apache Foundation; open source) | Apache JMeter is a 100% pure Java desktop application designed to load test functional behavior and measure performance. It was originally designed for testing Web Applications but has since expanded to other test functions.
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| LISA 2.5 (iTKO Inc.) | In a world of distributed applications and distributed development teams, maintaining software quality has never been more important. LISA software is the world's first no-code, enterprise-strength automated testing solution for J2EE applications, websites and web services. LISA uses "inline testing" technology to talk to every component within your infrastructure. New one-click wizards enable even non-developers to connect to, analyze and interact with live EJBs, databases, messaging layers and web services/SOAP objects.
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| Parasoft Jtest 5.1 (Parasoft) | Parasoft Jtest is an automated Java unit testing and coding standard analysis product that improves Java code reliability, functionality, security, performance, and maintainability. To prevent common Java errors, Jtest checks whether code complies with 500+ Java development rules and automatically corrects many reported violations. Rules can be customized without coding, and user-defined rules can be created graphically or automatically. To expose reliability, security, and functionality problems within each unit, Jtest examines each class, then generates and executes JUnit test cases designed to achieve high coverage, expose uncaught runtime exceptions, and verify requirements expressed using Design by Contract. Additionally, it provides fast and easy ways to add user-defined cases, including a graphical test case editor with data source and range value support, a graphical object editor, modifiable/extensible JUnit test cases, and verification of automatically-generated test cases. To ensure continued functionality, Jtest's automated regression testing identifies problems introduced by code modifications.
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| QA Wizard 2.4 (Seapine) | There are several functional and regression testing tools on the market, but they are one dimensional--forcing you to choose between full functionality or ease of use. Most of today's tools are difficult to learn and use and require a substantial amount of time to create automated tests. Conversely, the tools that are easy to use lack the functionality and complexity required to produce advanced automated scripts. With QA Wizard, you can implement a full-featured functional and regression testing tool with a minimal learning curve.
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| TestComplete 3.0 (AutomatedQA) | AutomatedQA has repeatedly shocked the QA world by offering a full-featured testing and debugging solutions for prices that are fractions of the cost of "the big big names". Yet with the arrival of TestComplete version 3.0, we do it again. TestComplete 3 adds HTTP load, stress and scalability testing, distributed testing and improved unit testing to its already formidable list of features. An overview of TestComplete for non-developers (.pdf format) As the name implies, TestComplete is AutomatedQA's complete application testing system offering automated functional, unit, regression, distributed and HTTP performance testing in one easy to use and totally integrated package. TestComplete allows you and your team to implement comprehensive software testing strategies, “automating the non-automatable” for maximum ROI (return on investment).
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| Defect Tracking Tools | |
| Census 6.0 (MetaQuest Software) | Census Bug Tracking software automates the recording, tracking, and management of software and hardware development bugs/defects. It integrates bug tracking with version control to help you manage change throughout the development process. With Census Bug Tracking software, you can deliver higher-quality products faster, reduce project costs, and improve customer satisfaction. Census is Web-based, so it connects everybody and provides a vital communications link - not only between team members, but between you and your customers. And unlike most other Web-based bug tracking software, Census gives the user a Windows experience on the Web. Census feels and behaves like a Windows application, even though it is running in a browser.
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| FogBugz 3.1 (Fog Creek Software) | For FogBugz 4.0: FogBugz is a complete project management system for software teams. Designed by Joel Spolsky of Joel on Software fame, FogBugz helps you make better software by tracking, prioritizing, and coordinating the thousands of small tasks a development team has to do. FogBugz is web based, so everyone on the team always sees the whole picture. Feature requests, customer email, bugs, even high level design discussions are instantly searchable and trackable.
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| JIRA 3.0 (Atlassian Software Systems) | Tracking and managing the issues and bugs that emerge during a project is a critically important task, but one that few teams do effectively.
JIRA is a J2EE-based, issue tracking and project management application developed to make this process easier for your team. JIRA has been designed with a focus on task achievement, is instantly usable and is flexible to work with.
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| OnTime 2004 for Web and Windows and PowerTrack 2004 Add-In for Visual Studio (Axosoft) | With the introduction of OnTime 2005, Axosoft is once again raising the bar in bug tracking software. OnTime 2005 introduces task tracking, customer portal integration, optional enterprise server connectivity and more than 50 other enhancements that make OnTime 2005 the ideal defect, feature and task management system for software development and test teams.
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| TestTrack Pro 7.0 (Seapine) | TestTrack Pro delivers time-saving issue management features that keep all team members informed and on schedule. Its advanced configurability and scalability make it the most powerful solution at the best value. Move ahead of your competition by moving up to TestTrack Pro.
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