Boeing Chooses ParaSoft's CodeWizard to Automate Coding Standard Enforcement Across Company.Business Editors MONROVIA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 17, 2000 Move Illustrates Growing Trend for Businesses to Prevent Errors Before Costly Repairs are Required The Boeing Company and ParaSoft Corporation have jointly announced that Boeing is licensing ParaSoft's CodeWizard to automate coding standard enforcement on major software development programs. CodeWizard will automatically enforce "programming rules" and coding guidelines created by Boeing and already in use by the company's developers. Coding standards are used to ensure quality and uniformity in programs produced by a company's developers. Although they are not a new phenomenon, companies until recently had to rely on "self-policing" by developers to ensure that their standards were followed. "Boeing believes in the use of coding standards and we have been using them for quite some time," said Lori Kilpatrick of Boeing. "With CodeWizard's versatility, we are able to automatically enforce Boeing coding standards, which will save us an appreciable ap·pre·cia·ble adj. Possible to estimate, measure, or perceive: appreciable changes in temperature. See Synonyms at perceptible. amount of time and money on current, future and ongoing projects." ParaSoft president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. Dr. Adam Kolawa sees Boeing's move as part of an industry trend, which CodeWizard is helping to spur. "ParaSoft built CodeWizard with the intention of helping companies automatically enforce coding standards. We made it versatile enough that it can be adopted to any development process. "We consider Boeing's decision to automatically enforce coding standards to be a very wise step. We are pleased that they chose CodeWizard to implement this decision and are confident that using CodeWizard as part of their development process will tremendously reduce Boeing's software development cost and increase reliability of the software their developers produce," added Kolawa. About CodeWizard CodeWizard is the world's only automatic coding standard enforcement tool. It uses patented Source Code Analysis technology (patent No. 5,860,011) to automatically alert developers of over 70 coding standard violations in C++ programs. These violations represent high-level design The introduction to this article provides insufficient context for those unfamiliar with the subject matter. Please help [ improve the introduction] to meet Wikipedia's layout standards. You can discuss the issue on the talk page. flaws or other problems that may hinder code readability, portability, etc. The RuleWizard feature also allows developers and/or managers to graphically customize their own rules to be enforced. Using CodeWizard to identify and prevent design and coding problems early on can save valuable time and resources that would otherwise be wasted if left to be fixed later in the development process. Availability CodeWizard is available for Windows NT/95/98, Linux, DEC Alpha See Alpha. (processor) DEC Alpha - A RISC microprocessor from DEC. In November 1995, the Alpha was purportedly the fastest non-research chip used in commonly available workstations. It is superpipelined and superscalar. , Sun/Solaris, SGI (SGI, Sunnyvale, CA, www.sgi.com) A manufacturer of workstations and servers, founded in 1982 by Jim Clark. The company was founded as Silicon Graphics, Inc., but changed to its acronym in 1999. (IRIX A Unix-based operating system from SGI that is used in its computer systems from desktop to supercomputer. It is an enhanced version of Unix System V Release 4. IRIX integrates the X Window system with OpenGL, creating the first real time 3D X environment. 5.x & 6.x), HP (10 & 11), IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) RS/6000 (AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) IBM's Unix-based operating system which runs on its Intellistation workstations and pSeries, p5, iSeries and i5 server families. 3.4 & 4.x). Pricing starts at $995 (single user, machine locked) for Windows. For more information on purchasing, contact ParaSoft's sales department at 888/305-0041, ext. 4. About ParaSoft ParaSoft develops and markets advanced error prevention and error detection tools for UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). , 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. e-mail: info@parasoft.com. URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. : http://www.parasoft.com. Note to Editors: ParaSoft and CodeWizard are registered trademarks of ParaSoft. All other brands are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. Screen shots and review copies available. |
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