MONROVIA, Calif., April 16 /PRNewswire/ -- ParaSoft, leading provider of error prevention and error detection software announced today that Jtest, their automatic unit testing tool for Java, was awarded Software Development Magazine's Productivity Award in the "Utilities" category. The Jolt Excellence and Productivity Awards were announced at a ceremony held April 11th at the Software Development Conference in San Jose, CA.

"The Jolt and Productivity Awards this year continue the tradition of recognizing important new development paradigms like lightweight methodologies, support for multiple operating system platforms, and innovative modeling solutions. The Productivity Award given to ParaSoft's Jtest -- on the heels of the Jolt Award it received last year -- shows that testing continues to be a fundamental part of any serious development practice," said Roger Smith, Technical Editor and Jolt judge for Software Development Magazine.

In recent years Jtest has garnered great respect throughout the Java development community. Along with numerous favorable product reviews in leading publications such as Software Development, Java Report, Web Techniques, and Java Developer's Journal, Jtest has been honored with several industry respected awards. Last year Jtest won "Best of Show" at the first annual JavaPlus conference, Software Business magazine's "Best Development Tool" award and the coveted 10th annual Jolt Award for "Best Utility."

Jtest is a fully integrated, easy-to-use, automatic unit testing tool for Java. Jtest integrates every essential type of Java testing into one intuitive tool that automatically performs static analysis, white-box testing, black-box testing and regression testing. Jtest works on any Java class. Developers who want to produce top-notch Java code can use Jtest as soon as they have constructed and compiled each class of their project. Jtest starts at $3495 (single user, machine locked license) and is available for Windows NT/2000/98/Me, Solaris and Linux.

ParaSoft develops and markets advanced error prevention and error detection tools for UNIX, Windows and Internet development environments.

ParaSoft's award-winning products and patented technologies assist developers and managers in improving software quality, accelerating time to market and reducing development costs. ParaSoft's headquarters is located at 2031 S. Myrtle Ave., Monrovia, CA 91016. Telephone (888) 305-0041. Fax (626) 305-3036. Email to info@parasoft.com. URL: http://www.parasoft.com.




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