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Contact person: István Forgács



Skill: 4D SOFT is an SME with 30 employees. 4D SOFT Ltd. has two profiles: development of integrated component-based software systems, and research in areas that can be used in the development of such systems: Software Engineering and Testing tools. The clients of 4D SOFT Ltd. come from the banking, insurance, trade and patent/trademark business. 4D SOFT covers the whole development process from the consulting to creation of a business model, from software design to introduction of the system, maintenance and integration of new demands. 4D Soft is one of the two companies in Hungary dealing with test outsourcing. Based on our professionals' theoretical and practical knowledge we improved the testing processes at different leading Hungarian companies. Since the systems created by 4D SOFT are used for a long time and they are permanently updated, the other scope of research is Software Engineering and Software Quality management. 4D SOFT participates in the research and implementation of testing tools such as General Java Tester, a unit testing tool. 4D SOFT's key product is Panorama Analyser that is a unique tool by which unpredictable dependences in very large COBOL code can be revealed. This is very useful in the case of migration, program comprehension and regression testing. 4D SOFT has several grants financed by both the EU and Hungary. CREG++ is C++ version of Panorama Analyser, but dynamic regression testing is also addressed. JARTA is a Java version of 4D SOFT’s analyser, and will be ready in the summer of 2005.

Role: 4D SOFT's test team will bring its research and practical expertise to the PLASTIC project in the areas of software validation, especially in test planning, component-based testing and developing testing tools.

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István Forgács received a PHD degree from the Hungarian Academy of Science in 1993. He has a strong experience in developing testing strategies. In particular, he has recently developed of general testing strategy at Graphisoft Corp and MÁV Informatica, a testing strategy of City taxi application at Unitis, and an extended testing strategy of repackaging for HAS. He has been project leader and designer of JavaCov, an MC/DC coverage analyser tool, test project leader at OTP, IQSoft, Alstom Signal, and project leader and designer of an automated syntax test generator for Nokia. He has lead the Hungarian side of the EU IST 5th Framework, Component+ project and EU IST 6th Framework DILIGENT project. He is the designer and project leader of Panorama Analyser and Regression Tester that is a unique software for COBOL programming language capable of slicing and processing over 1 MLOC. He has also a long experience in teaching courses on testing.