Parasoft Corporation, a leader in helping organizations define and deliver defect-free software, announced today Parasoft Virtualize’s extended capabilities for IBM WebSphere Environments. Parasoft Virtualize helps development and QA teams create and access any environment needed to develop or test an application. With Parasoft Virtualize, development and QA teams can capture the necessary system behavior of dependent applications and provision virtual assets in order to execute complex test scenarios.

At IBM Impact, Parasoft is showcasing extended capabilities to support IBM WebSphere environments. Parasoft Virtualize enables organizations to emulate behavior and virtualize applications within the IBM WebSphere ecosystem, which includes service virtualization via IBM WebSphere MQ, IBM WebSphere Application Server, IBM WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances and IBM Business Process Manager.

“Parasoft accelerates agile development and testing efforts for customers leveraging the IBM WebSphere stack,” stated Wayne Ariola, VP of Strategy for Parasoft. “Parasoft Virtualize integrated with Parasoft SOAtest delivers a flexible and ubiquitously accessible test environment for the rapid evolution of composite applications. At any layer of the IBM WebSphere stack, Parasoft Virtualize can create a virtual test environment that allows QA and development teams to comprehensively test and validate component logic or end-to-end transaction logic. Parasoft’s Service Virtualization technology delivers a personal test environment that is accessible anytime and anywhere.”

For more information about Parasoft Virtualize, please visit www.parasoft.com/virtualize or the Parasoft YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/ParasoftVirtualize

About Parasoft

Parasoft is recognized by software development professionals as the leader in software development lifecycle automation. By integrating software development management, quality lifecycle management, and dev/test environment management, we help teams deliver better software faster. Since 1987, over 10,000 companies — including 58% of the Fortune 500 — have turned to Parasoft to ensure that quality software can be produced consistently and efficiently. For more information, visit the Parasoft web site and ALM Best Practices blog.