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SOAtest, Virtualize, CTP 2026.1 Product Release Announcement

jakubiak
jakubiak Posts: 833 admin
edited April 29 in SOAtest

We’re excited to announce that Parasoft SOAtest, Virtualize, and CTP 2026.1 are here! This release focuses on bringing AI-driven workflows deeper into your testing process while making service virtualization, code coverage analysis, and web UI testing more scalable and automated than ever.

Here’s what’s new and why it matters to you:

AI-Powered Service Virtualization in Your Workflow

Virtualize 2026.1 brings service virtualization directly into modern AI-driven development workflows.

Developers can now connect their LLM clients to the Virtualize MCP server to generate, deploy, and manage REST-based virtual services, without leaving their AI-enhanced IDE or workflow.

This enables:

  • Agentic AI workflows – Virtual services can be autonomously created and updated as part of your pipeline.
  • Smarter test data – Virtual responses include more realistic example data when LLM clients that support sampling are used.
  • Note: New licenses are required to enable MCP features for users who migrate from an earlier version of the product.

See Using Parasoft Tools as an MCP Server for details.

Code Coverage Reporting and Test Impact Analysis for Partial Automated Functional Test Runs

CTP 2026.1 introduces enhanced coverage agents designed for cloud and clustered environments, making large-scale coverage collection more efficient and practical.

Key enhancements include:

Incremental Coverage & TIA Across Test Runs

  • Support for automated workflows where each run executes only a subset of tests
  • No longer requires a baseline build with complete test execution for TIA
  • Code coverage and impacted test data can now be built incrementally across multiple runs and builds

Coverage Agent Self-Registration

  • Java and .NET coverage agents now automatically register with CTP on startup reducing manual setup in the CTP web interface
  • Configuration can be handled directly within build and deployment pipelines

Enhanced Cloud & Load-Balancer Support

  • Improved compatibility with cloud-native and distributed environments
  • Supports scenarios where coverage agents cannot be directly accessed

This means teams with large test suites no longer need to run everything at once to get a clear view of their complete application coverage—incremental code coverage and test impact analysis can now scale with your development process. See Collecting Coverage for Microservices and Connecting CTP to Coverage Agents for how to enable these workflows.

Automated Visual Regression Testing

SOAtest 2026.1 introduces built-in visual validation as part of your automated web UI testing workflows.

With this update, you can:

  • Automatically capture screenshots during test execution
  • Detect UI regressions using visual diff comparisons
  • Embed visual testing results directly into XML and HTML reports

This makes it easy to validate UI changes as a part of functional testing, bringing visual regression testing into your standard automation and reporting flow.


With 2026.1, you can move faster with AI-assisted service virtualization, scale your testing with test impact analysis and incremental code coverage, and expand validation with automated visual regression—all within your existing workflows.

Review the release notes to learn more about the 2026.1 release of SOAtest, Virtualize, and CTP.

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