New Flagship Product Extends Agitar's Award-Winning Software
Agitation(TM) Technology to Automate Generation of JUnit Tests; Reduces
the 'Drag' From Java Legacy Code and Speeds New Development; Integrates
the Best Features of Commercial and Open-Source Solutions
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Nov. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Agitar Software, the
leader in enterprise developer testing, today announced a new flagship
product -- AgitarOne -- that brings unprecedented power and simplicity
to Java unit testing. Unit testing is the practice in which software
developers create tests for their code as they write it, helping to
ensure that the code works correctly and making it easier to change the
code with confidence.
What's new about AgitarOne:
-- Introduces the most powerful support for automated JUnit test
generation available, powered by Software Agitation -- Agitar's
award-winning innovation for exhaustive unit testing
-- Helps developers automate the creation of regression test suites for
legacy Java code bases
-- New functionality for interactive unit testing helps novices test code
like experts
-- Server-based deployment gives developers meaningful unit tests in
minutes
-- Features out-of-the-box support for continuous integration and testing
using CruiseControl, the most widely-used open-source software for this
purpose
"AgitarOne answers requests from hundreds of customers for an easier
way to start unit testing or to extend what they're already doing using
hand- written tests. It has been hard for some organizations to start
unit testing and to stick with it because of the manual effort, and
because there was no easy way to add JUnit tests to legacy code to
start to change it safely," said Jerry Rudisin, CEO and President,
Agitar. "AgitarOne removes the obstacles and excuses. It empowers
development teams to start creating meaningful tests in minutes and to
slash the work required to create a "safety net" of unit tests around
legacy applications, making them easier to enhance. AgitarOne delivers
effective and exhaustive unit testing without exhausted developers."
With AgitarOne, companies can see dramatic changes in how easy it is
to get started with unit testing and how quickly their development
teams can realize the benefits: more predictable software development
cycles, and reduction in the cost of quality assurance and maintenance
through early elimination of bugs.
"In the Data Center Management group at Cisco, we estimate that
maintaining products can add up to 40% to our engineering estimates.
That's why we believe in building quality in, through unit testing,"
said Ian Wallis, Director of Data Center Management Software, Cisco
Systems, Inc. "Agitar's unit testing solutions and expertise have
helped our globally distributed development teams adopt agile practices
with great success. With AgitarOne, we have the fastest, most effective
way to get our current product thoroughly tested, and ensure our code
is robust, flexible and of the highest quality."
AgitarOne's most striking new feature is the automated generation of
JUnit tests. AgitarOne enables developers to unit test much more
thoroughly than they would be able to with purely hand-written tests.
Developers also use AgitarOne to generate a change-detection "safety
net" for legacy applications, to ensure that any change to the code
does not accidentally change the code's intended behavior.
"I learn surprising facts about my code when I look at the JUnit
tests that AgitarOne generates, and when I agitate my code. AgitarOne's
test generation provides developers a quick way to get a useful set of
unit tests that will detect unintended changes to the code," said Kent
Beck, co-author of JUnit, the most widely used unit testing framework
for Java, and the father of eXtreme Programming. "By integrating these
features with the Management Dashboard, the whole team -- including its
sponsors, customers, and managers -- can readily see the current state
of unit testing during development."
"MindTree sets itself apart by combining extreme agility in our
development processes with unmatched quality. We're able to do this
because we are consistently leveraging software best practices like
unit testing," said Kamran Ozair, Senior Vice President and Chief
Technology Officer, IT Services, at MindTree Consulting. "Agitar's
unique technology makes unit testing a fast, highly effective process
for Java developers. And we're particularly excited by AgitarOne's
powerful JUnit generation capabilities. Most of our clients have large
business-critical Java applications, ranging from greenfield
applications to large legacy code bases -- and with AgitarOne, we can
generate a thorough safety net of JUnit tests, which helps us build,
extend and enhance Java code with even greater reliability and speed
than before. We see a significant positive impact on developer testing
productivity and effectiveness through the use of Agitator and
AgitarOne."
AgitarOne is a server-based software product with capabilities including:
-- Agitar's breakthrough technology, software agitation, with the full
functionality offered in Agitator(R). Agitation supports interactive
exploratory testing on Java code to help developers find unexpected
behavior.
-- The industry's most powerful technology for automated generation of
JUnit tests, providing thorough coverage on most code. Developers can
interactively tune and improve the JUnit test generation by writing
helper methods in Java.
-- Flexible and extensible code-rule enforcement that helps eliminate
error-prone coding patterns.
-- Out-of-the-box support for continuous integrated testing, based on the
popular open-source CruiseControl, so every development team member can
know in minutes when a coding change introduces possible bugs.
-- A comprehensive project Dashboard that gives continuous visibility into
how a project is doing against unit-level quality targets.
-- Server-based deployment that makes deployment faster and that
simplifies Dashboard rollups and sharing of assets across
organizations.
-- Distributed JUnit test generation and agitation, allowing users to
exploit additional CPU power to do more aggressive and frequent testing
in less elapsed time.
"Fujitsu SSL strives to improve quality in every phase of our
projects, from system planning and development to operation and
maintenance," said Mr. Shigeo Jisai, General Manager of the New
Technology Promotion Department, Fujitsu Social Science Laboratory,
Ltd. "We incorporated Agitator into our development process as a way to
speed up the QA process for SOA components. AgitarOne combines the
functionality of the existing Agitator software with new features into
a server-based solution, enabling easier implementation and development
on a company-wide level. Increasing the return on our investment in
unit tests requires being able to flow test code into regression tests.
AgitarOne's new JUnit Generation maintains tests assets created during
development as standard JUnit tests, increasing the return on our
investment in unit tests."
Pricing and Availability
AgitarOne is licensed through an annual subscription fee for use on
a specified number of unique Java classes. Entry-level pricing starts
at $50,000 per year.
In a companion release today, "Agitar Software Announces 'No Java
Class Left Behind' Program -- AgitarOne(TM) Now Free For Educational
Institutions" Agitar announced that the full AgitarOne product is
available free of charge to accredited educational institutions for
education and research.
AgitarOne, version 4.0, is available immediately, and supports the
following platforms: Windows XP or 2000; Linux with kernel 2.4.22 or
later. It also fully supports J2EE and Java extensions JDBC, JNDI and
Java Servlet Technology. AgitarOne is compatible with any Java IDE
(integrated development environment) based on Eclipse 3.0, 3.1, or 3.2.
About Agitar Software
Agitar Software removes the obstacles to widespread adoption of unit
testing. This practice, where software developers test their code as
they write it, improves software quality and business agility. Agitar's
flagship product, AgitarOne, helps Java development teams start unit
testing and makes good unit testing more effective, on both new code
and legacy Java systems. Customers have shortened development cycles,
cut defects handed over to system integration by 90 percent, and
reduced the cost of fixing bugs after release by up to 90 percent.
Agitar's breakthrough technology, software agitation, has been honored
with the Java One Duke's Choice, Jolt Award, Wall Street Journal
Technology Innovation Award, and InfoWorld Technology of the Year.
Thousands of users at organizations such as Bank of America, Cisco,
EDS, IBM Global Services, Northrop-Grumman, NTT Data, Siemens Medical,
Tata Consultancy Services, and Tokyo Gas use Agitar's products to
improve in-house, offshore, or outsourced software development. Agitar
is a privately-held company headquartered in Mountain View, CA. For
more information, visit www.agitar.com.
NOTE: Agitar, AgitarOne, Agitator, and Software Agitation are
trademarks of Agitar Software, Inc. Other trademarks, service marks,
trade names, and company logos referenced are the property of their
respective owners.
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