Sergei Sokolov

My first encounter with Parasoft Insure++ and Parasoft Corporation was in the mid-'90s when I was working for a small company developing parsers and translators for languages used in semiconductor chip design. Like developers on almost any development project, we ran into a "runaway" memory situation -typically called "leaks," ours was more like a "flood" - that took quite a bit of time, effort, and frank conversations to debug by hand. After that incident, we started looking at memory debugging tools, Insure++ (in version 2.1 back then) being one of them. In the course of a diligent evaluation, we were favorably impressed with the robustness and accuracy of Insure++ memory analysis. There was, however, a problem: the tool was slower than our application would tolerate... (more)

Establishing an Infrastructure for Productive Development

Software development is an inherently creative process. Many developers compare it to art, and - like artists - take great pride in their work. However, creative processes are typically not efficient. The software development process is no exception, as the quote below clearly indicates. Given that software development is a business, many software development managers and team leads want ... (more)