Monrovia, California: Parasoft Corporation on Tuesday announced the availability of Parasoft SOAtest 5.5 that adds new testing capabilities to its comprehensive and collaborative test suite.

The new product is designed specifically to increase productivity and efficiency for development teams working in complex Service Oriented Architectures (SOA), including those working in the Microsoft .NET environment, the company stated.

The company claims its product is the first SOA testing solution to offer full capabilities for multi-protocol environments, including Windows Communication Foundation (WCF).

The latest in a series of platform support capabilities, Parasoft SOAtest 5.5 allows .NET developers to exercise messages in multiple protocols as well as the proprietary Microsoft standards.

It also integrates fully with Microsoft Visual Studio Team System for software testers, allowing developers to share, manage and execute Parasoft SOAtest projects, receiving results directly into Microsoft Visual Studio. 

The Parasoft SOAtest 5.5 release also delivers a highly automated capability to create intelligent stubs, thereby saving tremendous time and resources.

The intelligent stubs emulate the behaviour of a running system, allowing the development organization to test services in context of an applications actual behaviour and not the live running system.

The company also informed that the new product is available for Windows, Linux and Solaris.
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