Agitar Software Named to the Annual SD Times 100 Three Years in a Row

Agitar’s Industry-Leading Unit Testing Solution Wins a Record Number of Awards

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., June 5, 2007 - Agitar Software, the leader in enterprise unit testing, today announced being named to the annual SD Times 100 for the third consecutive year. Recognizing leaders and innovators in the software development industry, the fifth annual SD Times 100 has named Agitar a winner in the Test and Quality Assurance (QA) category.

“The winners of this year’s SD Times 100 awards have demonstrated their leadership in shaping the software development industry,” said David Rubinstein, Editor-in-Chief of SD Times. “We took into account each nominee’s products and services, its reputation among development managers, and the new ideas it brought out. These select individuals and organizations are the ones we’ve identified as helping to move the art of development forward.”

The 2007 SD Times 100 recognizes Agitar for excelling in Java unit testing. Unit tests validate the correct behavior of each individual unit of code. Leveraging a thorough set of unit tests is a proven way to reduce the complexity of code, change code with greater agility and confidence, and dramatically reduce the number of bugs. Agitar’s flagship product, AgitarOne, brings power and simplicity to Java unit testing through automation of each of the distinct activities of unit testing - including the generation of JUnit tests, support for interactive exploratory testing on Java code, and detection and elimination of error-prone coding patterns.

Agitar’s enterprise unit testing s lutions have won multiple industry awards year after year, including the Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Award, the Duke’s Choice Award, three consecutive JOLT Product Excellence awards, and recognition from eWeek, InfoWorld, and Red Herring.

“The SD Times 100 award recognizes Agitar’s leadership in enabling software teams to accelerate time-to-market, improve the quality and flexibility of their software, and reduce costs through unit testing,” said Jerry Rudisin, CEO of Agitar Software. “AgitarOne is helping hundreds of organizations, from Global 500 organizations to start-ups, get started easily and quickly with unit testing and transform the speed, economics, and quality of delivering Java applications. It’s fitting that Agitar has won nearly every industry award—often multiple times—validating that unit testing is now a top priority for organizations worldwide.”

About Agitar Software:
Agitar Software removes the obstacles to widespread adoption of unit testing. This practice, where software developers test their code as they write it, improves software quality and business agility. Agitar’s flagship product, AgitarOne, helps Java development teams start unit testing and makes good unit testing more effective, on both new code and legacy Java systems. Customers have shortened development cycles, cut defects handed over to system integration by 90 percent, and reduced the cost of fixing bugs after release by up to 90 percent. Agitar’s breakthrough technology, software agitation, has been honored with the Java One Duke’s Choice, Jolt Award, Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Award, and InfoWorld Technology of the Year. Thousands of users at organizations such as Bank of America, Cisco, EDS, IBM Global Services, Northrop-Grumman, NTT Data, Siemens Medical, Tata Consultancy Services, and Tokyo Gas use Agitar’s products to improve in-house, offshore, or outsourced software development. Agitar is a privately-held company headquartered in Mountain View, CA. For more information visit www.agitar.com.

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Editorial Contact: Sarah Conway
Page One PR for Agitar Software
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