[April 25, 2012]

Verifyter: New PinDown Release is Improving Test Productivity by up to 30%

Verifyter™ AB, a leading provider of solutions for automatic regression testing and failure diagnosis, today announced the release and immediate availability of PinDown, version 3. Verifyter AB has pioneered and introduced a bug-centric approach rather than a test-centric one, enabling users to diagnose and fix issues quickly and productively. The most recent release adds additional bug analysis capabilities and a sophisticated integrity checking mechanism for the user's test environment.

Bug-centric Testing™ is a new and unique methodology that is automatically generating detailed, yet easy to interpret bug reports rather than just a raw list of the test results. To further improve test efficiency, PinDown is analyzing previous test results and using this historical data, schedules tests giving those tests priority that have a higher probability of finding new bugs, thus assuring that bugs are found as quickly as possible and with the least computer resources. Real-time monitoring makes sure that new bugs are reported immediately, even before the whole test-suite has finished. This fully-automatic, Bug-centric Tsting is enhancing every test environment to find bugs faster, generate better reports and converge on a fully tested product more efficiently.

Also significantly improved in version 3.0 are the already powerful automatic Bug Analysis capabilities. PinDown's powerful diagnosis capabilities automatically analyze every test, build and configuration failure and trace it back to the exact revision in the version control system where each specific failure was introduced. PinDown automatically creates bug reports which can, optionally, be published in other bug tracking tools, sent out by emails or be published on a web server. This eliminates the need for manual intervention and, more importantly, is reducing the time it takes to fix bugs, as the developers are directly informed of any faults their check-in might have introduced.

Version 3.0 is introducing a major new capability, Network Integrity Checking, which automatically identifies potential network issues and tries to fix or bypass the problem in order to preserve the integrity of the test environment. "A problem with automated testing is the reliance on a stable IT infrastructure which, when it fails, corrupts the test results" says Erik Åkerfeldt, Chief Technology Officer at Verifyter AB, "PinDown solves this by continuously monitoring and restoring test integrity. This eliminates spending time on misleading results". PinDown is automatically resolving any such problem, therefore providing a more stable test environment. This allows the user to fix design bugs rather than chase false alarms or fix workstation and network problems.

About Verifyter

Verifyter AB develops the debug automation and analysis software PinDown, which is used to dramatically accelerate bug diagnosis in regression test suites. Using PinDown can significantly improve testing and validation of complex hardware and software design projects, thus saving time and money while at the same time improving quality and time-to-market.

Verifyter, PinDown, Bug-centric Testing and its logos are trademarks of Verifyter AB. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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