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Press & Analyst Coverage

News releases

10/09/07
Compuware Provides Increased Requirements Capture Flexibility With New Version of Business Requirements Management Solution

04/03/07
LogicaCMG and Compuware Develop Industry-leading Quality Assurance Solution

11/08/06
Compuware Research Highlights Growing Importance of Business Analysts in Aligning IT With the Business

09/12/06
Compuware to Present Business Requirements Management Seminars in Major Cities Globally

06/27/06
Compuware Introduces Business Requirements Management Solution

04/04/06
Compuware Adds Business Requirements Management Through Acquisition of SteelTrace

Press mentions

Redmond Developer News
January 2008
Compuware Revs Business Requirements Tool

Dr. Dobbs Journal
October 15, 2007
Podcast: Inside Optimal Trace 5.0--A Tool for Requirements Definition/Management

eWeek Magazine
October 10, 2007
Serena, Compuware Deliver New ALM Tools

CBR Online
October 9, 2007
Compuware Adds 'Simple Requirements' to Optimal Trace

SearchSoftwareQuality.com
October 9, 2007
Optimal Trace 5.0 Facilitates Business Requirements Management

Infoworld Magazine
October 5, 2007
Compuware Adds to Business Requirements App

SYS-CON MEDIA
October 9, 2007
Compuware Provides Increased Requirements Capture Flexibility

Great Lakes IT Report (GLITR)
October 9, 2007
New Software From Compuware

SD Times Magazine
September 6, 2007
Compuware Optimal Trace: Visualizing Business, IT Requirements

IT Week
August 9, 2007
Compuware Eases IT - Business Alignment

.NET DEVELOPERS JOURNAL
April 9, 2007
Product Review - Compware Optimal Trace

SD Times
January 1, 2007
SOA, ALM Dominate M&A

International Developer
December 2006
Communication: It's a Requirement (PDF, 286 KB)

IT-DIRECTOR.COM
December 18, 2006
Requirements based development

Computerworld
November 6, 2006
Lost in translation: How requirements management tools can bridge the communications gap

SD Times
August 1, 2006
Compuware Incorporates SteelTrace Tool Into Fold

Datamonitor
March 10, 2006
SteelTrace to Hook into VSTS

Projects @ Work
January 19, 2006
New Capabilities, Name for Requirements Management Tool

Enterprise Systems
December 1, 2005
SteelTrace Updates Requirements Capture Tool

Computer Business Review Online
December 2, 2005
SteelTrace: Capturing the requirements

CIO
November 15, 2005
Fixing the Requirements Mess

Information Week
May 30, 2005
Cold Code: Chain Tests Outside Apps

Application Development Trends
May 11, 2005
Catalyze Helps Capture Business Requirements

Dr. Dobb’s Journal:
September 11, 2006
Measuring Application Performance In SOAs

asp.netPRO Magazine:
DevPartner SecurityChecker 2.0

Visual Systems Journal:
August 26, 2006
Strong Studio Partnership: DevPartner Studio Professional Edition 8.1

SearchappSecurity.com:
July 26, 2006
ASP.NET tool upgrade: Compuware releases SecurityChecker 2.5

CBR Online:
July 20, 2006
Compuware Adds .NET Support for App Profiling

SearchVB.com:
July 10, 2006
Compuware Updates QA, Diagnostics Monitoring Tools

Redmond Magazine:
June 15, 2006
Compuware to Ship Development Tool for Visual Studio

InfoWorld Magazine:
June 13, 2006
Compuware, Borland boost ALM at TechEd

SearchVB.com:
Jun 2, 2006
QALoad 5.5 Tester Boasts Better Reporting, Improved Wizards

ADT Magazine:
June 1, 2006
Application Security Comes Under Attack

Larkware Blog:
Mike Gunderloy, Lead Developer - Personal Blog
June 1, 2006
TestPartner 5.4

CRN Magazine:
May 29, 2006
Functional Testing—Minus The Complexity—With TestPartner

eWeek Magazine:
May 23, 2006
Compuware Updates Load Testing Tool

CRN Magazine:
Apr. 07, 2006
DevPartner 8.0 Reduces The Complexity Of .Net Development

Secure Enterprise Magazine:
December 2005
Source-Code Assessment Tools Kill Bugs Dead

SD Times Magazine:
December 2005
Compuware Drives Software Quality With Team System
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Analyst Quotes

Gartner
"Requirements management has evolved from an abstract focus on features and functions to a user-focused scenario approach that yields productivity benefits for developers and value to users.  This approach must be leveraged in testing to drive focus and traceability, and to enable quality assurance engineers to act as effective user advocates."
—Thomas E. Murphy, Research Director, Gartner
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Bloor Research
"However, they key point is that Optimal Trace is about business-oriented requirements capture as well as conventional requirements management and traceability; and while much of the latter is "me too" stuff, the capture element is not and provides a distinct differentiator for Compuware."
—Philip Howard, Director of Research, Bloor Research
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Forrester
"What differentiates Optimal Trace is the fact that it has requirements-gathering capabilities in the first place." Most tools focus on requirements management alone, she said. "But people are starting to realize that it doesn’t matter how well you manage your requirements if you aren’t dealing with the right requirements in the first place."
—Carey Schwaber, Analyst, Forrester

Gartner
"Requirements management can be simplified if initial requirements definitions are captured in a database-based tool to enable collaborative review, use-case and test-case creation, traceability and versioning/change control."
—Matt Light, Research Director, Gartner

Events

 

Get IT right the first time- Requirements Definition, the root of the problem
Forrester analyst, Carey Schwaber shares brand new research to help IT Managers tackle the problem of project failure. Compuware's Mike Burba provides some case studies of real-world IT shops that are employing some of the practices that Carey defines and the value this is delivering to their business.
With Carey Schwaber, Analyst, Application Development, Forrester Research and Mike Burba, Marketing Director, Application Delivery Management, Compuware Corporation

Requirements in an Agile world - The Collaborative Game and how to succeed with Optimal Trace
This session delves into the implications of Agile, "Just Enough" and "Fit for Purpose" and demonstrates the application of these guiding principals- particulary through the usage of Requirements driven projects in Optimal Trace. 
With Dr. Alistair Cockburn, Consulting Fellow, Humans and Technology and Fergal McGovern, Director, Requirements Management Solutions


Best Practice with Structured Requirements
Get to the bottom of the prime reason for project failure - poor or incomplete requirements capture and management.  Learn how to harness the power of Structured Requirements.
With Fergal McGovern, Director, Requirements Management Solutions, Compuware Corporation

 

  
Fergal McGovern Podcast  

  
   


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