Vector Software has announced new capabilities in VectorCAST/Analytics. VectorCAST/Analytics provides an intuitive, web-based dashboard of software code quality and test completeness metrics, enabling users to immediately assess areas of risk and prioritize testing resources.
Available in enterprise versions of VectorCAST/C++ test unit and VectorCAST/QA code coverage and system testing tools, VectorCAST/Analytics is activated via a "quick launch" menu option that displays an analytics dashboard in a browser window. Project-wide metrics are shown in tables and heatmaps, providing an initial quality assessment to identify high-value activities for code quality improvement.
Out of the box, Vectorcast Analytics captures technical debt metrics, including code complexity, test complexity, and comment density, as well as test case quality metrics, number of tests, test failures, tests with requirements, and requirements without tests. The dashboard can be fully customized to an organization's objectives, and teams can create views to capture key metrics that are most relevant to them.
Jeffrey Fortin, director of product management at Vector Software, commented that "first-to-market advantage is a huge competitive factor, and developers are constantly under intense pressure to get products to market quickly, often trading quality for time to market." "Using tools like VectorCAST/Analytics can significantly improve resource utilization and continue meeting time-to-market requirements by reducing waste and rework and improving efficiency.".
