CARS
Comprehensive quality assurance practices
Improve application delivery through a disciplined approach
The Compuware Application Reliability Solution (CARS) – Compuware's Quality Governance solution – combines our patented methodology with innovative enterprise-wide technologies and certified quality assurance expertise to instill a consistent discipline across development, quality assurance and operations. By following this systematic testing approach, you:
- adhere to a consistent quality assurance process
- deliver the quality metrics required to make a sound go/no go decision
- ensure the most critical of business requirements are met.
CARS: the right methodology, technology and expertise
Risk-based methodology
Align your quality assurance activities with your most critical business requirements with Compuware’s risk-based methodology, QualityPoint®. At every stage, you will be able to seamlessly blend quality assurance activities, including quality planning, analysis, test execution and measurement with your organization’s application development strengths. From requirements definition through deployment, QualityPoint:
- defines best practices for every step in the application development life cycle
- provides for formal business and technical risk assessment
- prioritizes all quality assurance activities based on risk
- delivers repeatable processes with reusable assets
- tracks progress and results as a basis for ongoing process improvement.
Enterprise-wide technologies
Access all the tools and capabilities you need to deliver reliable applications easily online. The Quality Workbench automates the application quality life cycle as well as the actual testing of applications to:
- deliver a common view of quality across disparate parts of your organization
- provide management-level reports on key quality and performance metrics
- enforce discipline through managed workflow
- incorporate rich diagnostic capabilities such as software analysis, testing automation and management
- access real-world performance measurement and tuning tools
- address capacity planning requirements through load testing and network performance prediction.
Certified QA expertise
Compuware certifies quality assurance architects, project managers, lead testers, test planners and testing specialists to apply the QualityPoint methodology and the Quality Workbench. The CARS team:
- implements CARS in the context of your existing development and deployment processes
- conducts application risk assessments in collaboration with business subject matter experts
- executes the QualityPoint methodology through the entire application delivery cycle
- transfers CARS knowledge and expertise to your staff through a structured mentoring process.
