This IDC study examines the distributed automated software quality (DASQ) tools market for the period 2005?2010, with vendor revenue trends and market growth forecasts. Worldwide market size is provided for 2005, with trends from 2004. A vendor competitive analysis, with vendor revenue and market shares of the leading vendors, is provided for 2005. This study also provides profiles of leading vendors and identifies the characteristics that vendors will need to be successful in the future.

The vendor shares and competitive analysis contained herein represent a subset of the overall automated software quality tools market. Market sizing and vendor shares for the overall ASQ tools market may be found in Worldwide Automated Software Quality Tools 2005 Vendor Shares. The most recent 2006?2010 forecast for the overall ASQ tools market is contained in Worldwide Automated Software Quality Tools 2006?2010 Forecast.

"The distributed ASQ tools market experienced very strong growth in 2005 yet again, building further on the strong growth and momentum it generated in 2004. We expect the distributed ASQ tools market to continue to grow at a strong pace for the foreseeable future due to the strategic importance of software quality to the enterprise," said Melinda Ballou, program director in IDC's Application Development and Deployment service. "Drivers for the continued growth of the distributed ASQ tools market continue to be the pressures of compliance and distributed global development and the need for improved software development productivity, quality, and time to market. IT organizations rely on ASQ tools to help them cope with the increasing complexity of software applications, the business criticality of software, and the ongoing need to collaborate effectively across business and IT to achieve quality and relevance in highly competitive global markets."