Compuware Extends E-Business Testing Solutions

QACenter E-Business Edition Helps Organizations Achieve Web Site Quality and Performance Goals

FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich. -- June 19, 2000 -- Compuware Corporation (NASDAQ:CPWR) today announced the availability of QACenter E-Business Edition, its software testing solution for e-businesses. This suite, designed for quality assurance teams, helps companies accelerate web site deployment while meeting performance and reliability targets.

Compuware also today announced the availability of DevPartner Studio Enterprise Edition, which shares several QACenter E-Business Edition technologies, including: requirements management, test automation and change request management. Together, these two suites have been strategically designed to provide the most comprehensive solution options for testers and developers at e-commerce-driven companies--enabling them to improve software reliability and accelerate development.

"E-Businesses face tremendous pressures in the area of application development," said Theresa Lanowitz, Gartner Group Research Director. "Applications now have an accelerated time to market but also must be extremely reliable. A combination of solid processes throughout the application development life cycle plus strong tools designed for e-business helps to alleviate these pressures."

The centerpiece of QACenter E-Business Edition is TestPartner--the company's newest functional test automation tool. It has been designed from the ground-up to meet the needs of both developers and quality assurance teams, facilitating a more productive and efficient testing life cycle. In addition, TestPartner is the first testing tool to provide a complete test automation infrastructure that leverages Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA).

E-businesses primarily face two types of testing demands: validating the quality of applications and web sites, and ensuring the performance of those applications. QACenter E-business Edition is specifically designed to meet these requirements by providing both functional and performance testing solutions. The functional testing solution, based on TestPartner, includes application reliability and web site integrity tools. The performance testing solution, based on the industry-leading QALoad technology, includes load testing, system resource utilization measurements and user experience monitoring technology. To further help testers communicate with developers and managers, QACenter E-business Edition also includes communications tools such as requirements management, test management and defect tracking technology.

"Our QACenter E-Business Edition is the right choice for e-businesses that need to quickly and continuously deploy web applications," said Doug Turner, Vice President, Product Management, Compuware. "This targeted solution helps ensure e-business success through web site integrity testing and performance monitoring--a solution only Compuware provides. It's a flexible solution from a single vendor--targeted precisely at the time-crunched quality needs that e-businesses face."

Compuware Corporation

With fiscal 2000 revenues of more than $2.2 billion, Compuware is a world leader in the practical implementation of enterprise and e-commerce solutions. Compuware productivity solutions help 14,000 of the world's largest corporations more efficiently maintain and enhance their most critical business applications. Providing immediate and measurable return on information technology investments, Compuware products and services improve quality, lower costs and increase the speed at which systems can be developed, implemented and supported. Compuware employs more than 15,000 information technology professionals worldwide. For more information about Compuware, please contact the corporate offices at 800-521-9353. You may also visit Compuware on the World Wide Web at http://www.compuware.com.