Welcome to our June 2010 newsletter and the 20th anniversary of the founding of Vector Software. If you have had a chance to look at our website recently, you can see that we have been active with new customers from a wide variety of industries. We have also been busy building integrations with new compiler and RTOS combinations.

For our last fiscal year approximately 50% of our license revenue came from sales to existing customers. We attribute this high level of repeat business to our continuous product enhancement and to the excellent technical support provided by our engineers.

Last month VectorCAST v5.1 was released, please contact your account manager for complete information about this major update. Among the many new features are supports for Agile and Test Driven Development (TDD). TDD specifies a "test first approach". With VectorCAST 5.1, unit tests can be developed before any application code is written. Please refer to our product download page for a full set of release notes.

Have a great summer!

Bill McCaffrey
Director of Marketing

Extended Support for Renesas HEW Environment
We have recently extended our support for the Renesas High-Performance Embedded Workshop (HEW) development environment. This newest integration enables users to unit test their code and measure code coverage automatically on M16C/R8C and SuperH (SH) simulators.

""We are proud to bring the benefits of highly automated unit and integration test to Renesas HEW users" says Bill McCaffrey, Director of Marketing at Vector Software." This integration was already road-tested by a beta client in Asia, and the feedback we received was extremely positive. This development effort will enable us to better serve the vast community of HEW users in Automotive, Electronics and beyond".

See the full press release.

Test Driven Development & Continuous Integration Support with VectorCAST 5.1

We have recently added support for the Agile methodology's Test Driven Development (TDD) and Continuous Integration (CI). This new functionality is available in VectorCAST v5.1 extends the traditional unit and integration test capabilities used in Waterfall or V-Model software development methodologies.

To date, the VectorCAST tool suite has been used by embedded developers to test individual C/C++ modules (unit testing) or groups of modules that make up a functional area of the application (integration testing).

See the full press release.

Support for Cosmic STM8 Compiler
We have recently added support for the Cosmic STM8 compiler. Previous versions of VectorCAST had already supported the Cosmic compiler for HCS12. Test execution is provided through the Cosmic ZAP Simulator, as well as through the ST Visual Develop (STVD), a STMicroelectronics product. RealView.

See the full press release.

Monthly VectorCAST Webinars

Vector Software is now offering complimentary Webinar sessions designed for you to learn how VectorCAST can be used to automate the testing activities associated with safety-critical embedded software development. These sessions will show you the tools that industry leaders are using to validate their software for safety-critical systems.

To learn more about the VectorCAST webinars or to register, please contact us.

New Target Integrations

• Renesas HEW for M16C/R8C
• SH
• Tasking for Tricore

See a full list of Compilers and Targets Supported.

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