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Test/QA market saw continued demand in 2009


By Jeff Feinman
December 21, 2009 —  (Page 1 of 2)
There has been no shortage in demand for testing products and services this year, says longtime security consultant Rex Black.

“Unlike previous downturns, where testing was cut heavily relative to other IT activities, we saw a lot less of that in 2009,” said Black, president of Rex Black Consulting, a security group. “I’d say 2009 wasn’t anywhere near as bad as people might have expected on January 1, and it experienced a strong recovery starting in mid-2009.”

To further that point, testing product companies certainly stayed active in 2009. Early in the year, CAST Software added new dashboard views into its Application Intelligence platform, bringing a code view that shows object source code and information about the code.

Compuware’s testing business unit underwent a major overhaul in 2009 as the company sold its existing testing and QA product line to Micro Focus for US$80 million. When it looked like the company had abandoned the testing market, it then snatched up performance management company Gomez for $295 million in cash. Compuware executives said Gomez’s offerings give Compuware a larger focus on on-demand application performance monitoring than its previous tools did.

dynaTrace, meanwhile, created a free AJAX performance analyzer to diagnose AJAX performance problems. It also launched the dynaTrace Community Portal. The portal offers best practices, training and community forums to help testers strengthen their application performance.

Hex-Rays added stronger integration with 64-bit arithmetic in version 1.1 of its namesake decompiler, along with the ability to handle floating-point instructions such as conversions. The company updated its IDA Pro debugger with a moveable windows-based user interface that offers stack views and the ability to display data in multiple formats, something that Hex-Rays executives said had been lacking with the tool’s previous MID interface.

Hewlett-Packard focused on better testing of Web 2.0 applications in version 9.5 of its LoadRunner load testing software. HP executives said LoadRunner also features Protocol Advisor, which reduces test setup time by automatically determining which protocols are used in an application.

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