SteelTrace and Compuware Strengthen Strategic Partnership to Improve Application Quality

SteelTrace Catalyze Integrates With Compuware QACenter to Improve Collaboration, Eliminate Rework in Delivering Quality Applications

DETROIT and DUBLIN--September 15, 2005--Compuware Corporation (NASDAQ: CPWR) and SteelTrace today announced the integration of SteelTrace’s Catalyze product with the Compuware QACenter product line. Catalyze’s new integration with Compuware QACenter supports more effective collaboration between business users and IT teams, enabling better identification of what software should do for a business and improving application quality. SteelTrace Catalyze already integrates with Compuware OptimalJ for accelerating the development of enterprise J2EE applications.

"Our integration with Compuware QACenter offers unprecedented levels of visibility and traceability between QA and business teams, ensuring application requirements are reviewed and verified throughout the development life cycle," says Bernie Cullinan, CEO SteelTrace. "This alliance will continue to extend our market reach and accelerate the delivery of Catalyze to customers worldwide."

Ireland’s Prime Minister, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern, welcomed these developments between SteelTrace and Compuware and said at a luncheon in NY where he met with key executives from both companies that "this deal is a testimony to the quality of software created and developed in Ireland which can deliver results with world class organizations such as Compuware." Catalyze provides the structured framework that business users, QA and IT development staff need to collaborate, review and verify the detail of requirements prior to and during development. In addition, Catalyze’s unique capability to automatically generate test requirements from business requirements means that the combined Compuware-SteelTrace solution provides an unparalleled level of automation and detailed information to the QA team.

"Studies show that seventy percent of application rework is caused by lack of clarity during the project definition stage, and our experience supports this," said Gery Plourde, Vice President of Distributed Products Sales at Compuware Corporation. "The integration of SteelTrace’s Catalyze with Compuware OptimalJ--and now with Compuware QACenter--provides requirements traceability for Catalyze users across the application life cycle. Catalyze provides a consistent view of requirements from the business analyst, through development and now quality assurance."

The integration between SteelTrace Catalyze and Compuware QACenter allows users to automatically create test plans and test scripts in QADirector directly from requirements and use cases in Catalyze. As business priorities change, test plans can be quickly updated to ensure that testing efforts are in line with business priorities.

SteelTrace

SteelTrace develops software (Catalyze) that bridges the communications gap between business and IT in its ability to define, validate and manage the requirements process for software projects. Global leaders like Boeing, Bosch, GlaxoSmithKline, Intel, Ogilvy Interactive, Philips, use this leading edge application definition solution to get requirements right, faster and on budget - the first time. Catalyze’s intuitive approach ensures that the application delivered is exactly as intended, spectacularly impacting project success, accelerating time to market and cutting rework costs. Catalyze is the only solution currently available that is easy to adopt and user friendly, so all stakeholders, both business and technical can participate and collaborate from the outset on developing explicit and clear-cut requirements which are understood by all and simple to apply. SteelTrace has a network of offices across the US and Europe. Learn more about SteelTrace at http://www.steeltrace.com/.

Compuware Corporation

Compuware Corporation (NASDAQ: CPWR) maximizes the value IT brings to the business by helping CIOs more effectively manage the business of IT. Compuware solutions accelerate the development, improve the quality and enhance the performance of critical business systems while enabling CIOs to align and govern the entire IT portfolio, increasing efficiency, cost control and employee productivity throughout the IT organization. Founded in 1973, Compuware serves the world's leading IT organizations, including more than 90 percent of the Fortune 100 companies. Learn more about Compuware at http://www.compuware.com/.