Parasoft SOAtest Wins Best SOA Testing Tool as Part of SYS-CON Readers' Choice Awards.

MONROVIA, Calif. -- Parasoft Corporation, the leading provider of automated error prevention solutions for software development, announced today that SOAtest, the industry gold standard for ensuring secure, reliable, and compliant Service Oriented Architectures, has won the SYS-CON Readers' Choice Award. SYS-CON announced the winners on January 16, 2006.

"This award reflects the clear leadership enjoyed in 2005 by Parasoft Corporation with SOAtest in the Best SOA Testing Tool space," said SYS-CON Group Publisher & Editorial Director Jeremy Geelan. "We are very proud of SOA Web Services Journal's proactive role in helping to facilitate this community-driven process and congratulate Parasoft Corporation and its product team on all the work that underlies the winning of this prestigious award."

Parasoft SOAtest is a comprehensive, collaborative, automated test tool suite designed specifically for test and validation of Web services. SOAtest provides a breadth of functionality, including four-tier WSDL validation, unit and functional testing of the client, unit and functional testing of the server, performance testing, the graphical modeling and test of complex scenarios, penetration testing for security validation, and full regression testing. SOAtest addresses key Web service issues such as interoperability, security, compliance, change management, and scalability.

"This Readers' Choice Award really accents the fact that many early adopters of SOA and Web services rely on Parasoft SOAtest to ensure their mission-critical processes are secure, reliable, and compliant," said Wayne Ariola, Parasoft Vice President of Corporate Development. "Since our initial release over four years ago, we have been extraordinarily diligent in our campaign to drive an end-to-end quality process that begins with design."

About Parasoft

Parasoft is the leading provider of innovative solutions that automatically identify and prevent software errors from reoccurring in the development and QA process. Developed with Automated Software Error Prevention (AEP) methodologies, its award-winning, patented solutions enable software development organizations to reduce delivery delays and improve the quality, security, and predictability of enterprise applications. Parasoft has more than 10,000 clients worldwide, including Bank of America, Boeing, Cisco, Disney, HP, IBM, Lehman Brothers, and SBC. Founded in 1987, Parasoft is headquartered in Monrovia. For more information visit: www.parasoft.com.