Parasoft Reviews

Summary: I recommend this tool if you must maintain compliance and especially if you have a large team (or work with contractors). The tool can work out of the box or be highly customized to fit your needs. Parasoft Support is very responsive should you need their help

Positive: + Built-in rule sets for Medical, Aerospace, and Automotive
+ Powerful configuration of scope and test execution
+ Ability to write custom rules using existing ones as templates
+ PDF and interactive HTML report generation
+ Virtual machine provided during training for quick learning

Negative: - Embedded C++ Compiler Support
- Limited by Eclipse integration if you do not have the CLI license tier
- Certain license types cannot be used on the go

Summary: Overall the experience is very positive. We are going to use this product moving forward to identify potential vulnerabilities and bugs in our code base.

Positive: The plugin was very easy to install and easy to use. The support team is great and very professional. Pricing is very reasonable.

Negative: We had to struggle a bit to get the configuration right.

Summary: Overall I like the capabilities that Parasoft brings to the table in terms of helping us bolster and maintain our code quality.

Positive: Parasoft C/C++ test is a comprehensive static analysis tool that supports a wide breadth of analysis related standards. We utilize the tool primarily as part of our CI/CD pipeline enforcing MISRA code quality standards. The comprehensive rule sets will allow us to expand our quality standards as the code base matures. Technical support is quite responsive when assistance is required.

Negative: One thing that would be helpful for us is to setup the client to perform targeted or scoped analyses when the CI/CD pipeline identifies new MISRA warnings. There are so many options for flexibility that sometimes its not clear the steps needed to configure the client to do what is needed.

Summary: C++Test is a robust, mature product with many features for both static code analysis and metrics and unit tests

Positive: Many functions, huge number of rules
Very useful metric analysis
C++Test is up to date with e.g. OWASP, CWE
Great support

Negative: Long execution time when there is a lot of code to check and many rules enabled.

Summary: Overall, great product, and great support team. Wish more COTS tools were like Parasoft CPPtest. There support team were excellent in setup meeting and daily debugging of configuration issues.

Positive: 1. Support: execelet support team to help setup and integration issues.
2. Features: Stand alone VScode, Eclipse and GitLab/GitHub CI automation integration
3. Design: Flexable to customize rules.
4. Ease: Sample yml files.
5. Documentation: Good comprehensive online documentation.

Negative: I have been responsible for setup and integration for all our projects.
I haven't had any issues.

Summary: Overall, I am happy with the software and while I don't use the vscode plugin right now for future projects it will definitely be used.

Positive: The cli tool was quite easy to use and fit into our build system without any issues. I am pleased with its ability to reduce bugs in our code base. Excluding Misra violations was straight forward and easy to do for within the code.

Negative: There was a couple of false positives found during testing, and only 1 false negative was found.

Summary: Overall C/C++ Test was very nice to use and provided a lot of value to our software development workflow and it was a good value.

Positive: The software integrated really well with both our IDE (VSCode) and our CI/CD pipeline (Azure) without too much setup headache. It ran very quickly over our source code and generally was very accurate in detecting issues. The error messages produced for rule violations were also very clear and it was easy to know what was wrong and how to resolve the issue.

Negative: The tool didn't always catch violations we thought it should. Sometimes reporting to DTP didn't work or was finicky.

Summary: Parasoft C/C++test has revolutionized our development workflow. Its robust features and reliable support make it an indispensable tool for ensuring the delivery of high-quality software.

Positive: Parasoft C/C++test has been a game-changer for our team. The ease of installation and upgrade ensures that we can quickly get up and running without any hiccups. Its integration with our existing development environment is seamless. The comprehensive static analysis and unit testing capabilities have significantly reduced the number of defects in our code, allowing us to catch and address issues early in the development cycle. The customer support team is exceptional, always available and ready to help with any questions or problems we encounter. Overall, Parasoft C/C++test is a crucial part of our quality assurance process.

Negative: It consistently meets our needs and often exceeds our expectations.

Summary: Parasoft C/C++test has significantly improved our development process, making it an indispensable tool for ensuring high-quality and reliable code.

Positive: I have been using Parasoft C/C++test, and it has significantly improved our development process. The installation and upgrade are straightforward, and the software integrates seamlessly with our existing tools. The static analysis and unit testing features are robust, helping us catch defects early in the development cycle. Customer support is responsive and helpful, always ready to assist with any issues. Overall, Parasoft C/C++test has become an indispensable tool in ensuring the quality and reliability of our code.

Negative: It’s hard to find any significant cons with Parasoft C/C++test. It has consistently met our needs and exceeded expectations.

Summary: I find the software is one of the easier ones for me to manage. We have a great relationship with the publisher.

Positive: This product has not had any issues when I upgrade to newer versions. The users don't have any issues moving to new versions. The company is always checking in to see how we are doing, and to let us know of new improvements.

Negative: The latest version isn't available without logging in to the product site.

Summary: Overall I enjoyed using Parasoft and the dashboard was clear and pleasant to use. Would recommend this tool over competitors for our use case

Positive: The support of this product was fantastic. They were able to walk through the rich feature set with ease.

Negative: There were some trouble with licensing, but overall not many complaints.

Summary: I was part of the group that set it up. I spent a lot of time reading documentation and interacting with the support team to help me to try and figure out why certain things werent working. Each session i had, was value added and very informative.

Positive: I like the documentation for setting up. For the most part it is straightforward, the viewing of the results was my favorite part. The plethora of different type of information that it gives is really beneficial and it gives you your choice of what kind of rule set to run against. Giving you the customizability.

Negative: While there is a lot of customizable things, that means i had to dive even deeper into the build process in order to ensure that Parasoft was able to do the things required of it.

Summary: NOTE: I am getting an incentive gift card to write this however it does not effect my opinion. I would say this, this is a fairly good to use piece of software, however documentation could be better.

Positive: Ease of initial setup with GUI tool. Quick and thorough support from support team when facing difficulties.

Negative: Overall i wish documentation was a bit better though the product itself works well

Summary: Overall a very good product that can be efficient and powerful in in the right hands. Their technical support is fantastic. Communications with their sales/customer teams can feel overbearing at times especially during product trials. Once set up is complete the tool works efficiently and is a great choice for DO-178 embedded software verification.

Positive: - Support for many different compilers, processors, and IDEs. The way the tool is architected lets it integrate seamlessly into existing DevOps pipelines, which was great for our team because we could make the static analysis and unit testing work within our existing pipeline
- Minimal compiler overhead for instrumentation means we spent less time fighting build errors with instrumented code and didn't need to tinker with their internal libraries or preprocessor definitions
- The C/C++ test tool focuses on unit tests, letting us test code with code. Most DO-178 verification tools rely on clunky GUIs and nested pages of drop-down menus that quickly get cumbersome with even moderately complex code. This lets us write better tests faster.
- A lot of configuration required to get the tool running, but it actually isn't that complicated. There are a lot of training materials on their site, but we didn't actually need to use them to get fully up and running using C/C++Test.
- They are very quick to hop on a support call if anything isn't going well during setup. We were never blocked on any one issue for very long.

Negative: - C/C++Test requires the use of the Eclipse-based IDE, which can be a bit clunky. This is improved with C/C++Test CT which has VSCode integration, but CC++Test CT doesn't yet have all the features we need for a full verification effort of high-DAL DO-178 software.
- During the sales process it was hard to discern which features were available with what product. We liked the option of GTest integration but that was C/C++Test CT only but if we got that then we wouldn't get stubbing or qualification evidence. And the qualification kit is sold separately. Their site or marketing materials should have a clear table on what is included with each subscription.
- The sales and customer success teams set up a LOT of meetings during the demonstration and product onboarding periods. This could be a positive or a negative depending on your team's needs, but it was a bit much for us.

Summary: We will continue to use and invest in Parasoft tools for our CI/CD process; to have static-analysis, unit-testing, and potentially requirements tracking in one tool makes it very attractive.

Positive: We primarily use the tool for MISRA compliance and it has proven to be very effective in that regards. The DTP dashboard is easy to use and generating reports is straightforward. The fact that we can use the same Parasoft toolset for unit-testing and potentially requirements tracking is also very interesting to us.

Negative: While MISRA report generation is easy to do, I believe there could be more options available to tailor the report to our needs. Also, I have has inconsistent behavior in generating some of the required support files for projects, needed for C/C++ test to accurately scan a project.