NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #26/NN_1992_26.iso/spool/comp/software/4216

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From: [e-mail] (Carl Dichter)
Subject: SUMMARY Tools to aid in testing, and requirements trace-ability.
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Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 16:51:44 GMT
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Through your postings and my research, I have compiled this
basic list of CAST tools. Some parts are incomplete. About
70% has been verified by the vendors.

Please send me your comments/corrections.

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Vendor:      Advanced Software Automation
Phone:       [phone]
Product:     Hindsight
Description: Provides branch coverage analysis,
structure diagrams, and some performance profiling for C language.

Vendor:      Age
Product:     ASA and GEODE
Description: (need more information)

Vendor:      AT&T
Phone:       [phone]
Product:     Buster
Description: Provides record and playback for test verification.

Vendor:      Bender & Associates
City, State: Larkspur, CA
Phone:       [phone]
Email:       uunet!well.sf.ca.us!blaineb
Product:     Softest
Description: Softest automates the Cause-Effect graphing technique.
It designs the necessary and sufficient tests, reduces the number
of testcases to the absolute minimum, and aids in validating system
requirements early in the development lifecycle.

Vendor:      Mercury Interactive
City, State: Santa Clara, CA
Phone:       [phone]
Product:     XRunner
Description: Provides record and playback for test verification.
XRunner has a scripting language to drive applications through simulated
keyboard input. It then synchronizes events (and their associated images)
with a database of expected events and makes a comparison between expected
image and actual image. It then reports on the difference between these two.

Vendor:      Performance Awareness
City, State: Raleigh, NC
Phone:       [phone]
Email:       [e-mail] or uunet!prevue!prodinfo
Product:     PreVue-X
Description: Provides record and playback and measurements of system
response times and accuracy for ASCII and X applications.

Vendor:      Pure Software
City, State: Sunnyvale, CA
Phone:       [phone]
Product:     Purify
Email:       [e-mail]
Description: Purify detects runtime errors by instrumenting the
object code.  These errors include: reads and writes beyond array
bounds, reads and writes of free'd memory, uninitialized memory reads,
memory leaks, writes to system call locations, and stack corruption.

Vendor:      Software Research Associates
City, State: San Francisco, CA
Phone:       [phone]
Email:       [e-mail]
Product:     Software TestWorks (e.g., Capbak, Capbak/X, Smarts)
Description: Provides test coverage, complexity analysis, testcase
management, and record and playback capabilities.

Vendor:      Tescom
City, State: Ramat-Gan, Israel
Phone:       [phone], FAX [phone]
Product:     CATS
Description: (TBS)

Vendor:      Testing Foundations
City, State: Champaign, IL
Phone:       [phone]
Product:     GCT
Email:       [e-mail]
Description: Free test coverage tool based on GCC.
Developed by Brian Marick working for Motorola in cooperation with
University of Illinois.  Works with all normal C compilers. Goes beyond
branch coverage with multi-condition coverage, loop coverage,
relational coverage, routine entry and call point coverage, race
coverage (multi-processing), and weak mutation coverage (a research
technique).

Vendor:      Verilog S.A.
City, State: Toulouse Cedex-France
Phone:       [phone]
Vendor:      Verilog USA Inc.
City, State: Alexandria, VA
Phone:       [phone]
Product:     Logiscope
Description: (TBS)

Vendor:      Veritas
City, State: Santa Clara, CA
Phone:       [phone]
Email:       [e-mail]
Product:     VistaTEST, VistaKERNEL
Description: VistaTEST provides test coverage, simulation and fault seeding
facilities for testing application code.  VistaKERNEL provides test coverage
and simulation facilities for operating system and device driver code.


Vendor:      Virtual Technologies, Inc
City, State: Dulles, VA
Email:
Product:     SENTINEL
Description: SENTINEL overrides many C library functions with its
own versions which enable it to perform memory access error checking,
and memory leak detection.

Vendor:      X/Open
Email:       [e-mail]
Product:     Test Environment Toolkit (TET)
Description: Free test automation software (tools and API) from X/Open
with help from Unix International, and Open Systems Foundation. This
includes test case management, test case contol, and reporting.
To receive the index, send a message containing the following, to the
Email address above.
   Request: tet
   Topic: index
   Request: end





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Carl R. Dichter               "iwannanugui"
Motorola ASIC Division
email: [e-mail]
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