Compuware Introduces New Quality Assurance Solution

Compuware Quality Management Enables QA Organizations to More Effectively Manage Their Quality Processes

DETROIT--January 30, 2007--Compuware Corporation (NASDAQ: CPWR) today introduced a new quality assurance solution, Compuware Quality Management. Compuware Quality Management enables QA organizations to deliver higher-quality applications by arming those organizations with the tools that they need to effectively implement and monitor their quality process. This new solution helps organizations progressively mature and manage quality across the life cycle, accelerating the path to Quality Governance.

Compuware Quality Management is built to help QA organizations take the next step in quality maturity by enabling those organizations to implement a repeatable quality process and to put metrics in place to track ongoing projects. QA managers then use Compuware Quality Management to monitor these metrics and to ensure that their teams are consistently executing the organization’s quality process, ultimately delivering higher-quality applications.

"The next step for the software quality assurance industry is to move to a more sophisticated level of quality process management," said Thomas Murphy, Research Director at Gartner, Inc. "To do this effectively, QA organizations need to standardize their quality process, put the proper metrics in place, and then continuously undergo process improvement. By doing this, quality organizations will be able to deliver quality applications on a repeatable basis."

Actionable Insight Into Application Quality and Practices

Compuware Quality Management provides quality managers with actionable insight into the quality process, giving quality managers the data they need to quickly identify problems and resolve issues. Compuware Quality Management delivers this data in a web-based portal, which has a quality manager’s dashboard containing reports that give a cross-project view of current quality status for all projects that have ongoing testing activities. When Compuware Quality Management identifies problem areas, the quality manager can quickly drill down into more detailed reports to pinpoint and resolve issues.

Consistent Execution of the Quality Process

Compuware Quality Management also provides a visual workflow that enables organizations to consistently implement their quality process. It allows quality organizations to establish quality phases and the entrance and exit criteria for each phase, as well as quality gates to track and monitor the progress. Quality Management ships with Compuware QualityPoint®, a patented methodology for comprehensive software quality assurance. Organizations can adopt QualityPoint in its entirety, or customize the process to fit their unique QA process.

Built on Powerful Test Management Solution

Compuware Quality Management is built on Compuware’s powerful solution for test management. Compuware Test Management dramatically improves the productivity of testing teams through optimization and automation. The industry’s leading solution for risk-based testing, Compuware Test Management helps testing teams focus on executing the tests that validate the most valuable functionality from the perspective of the business.

Compuware Test Management also makes the testing process more efficient by automating the functional testing process. It delivers powerful support for automated regression testing and helps testers to efficiently manage large volumes of test data. Test Management’s support for test data management is unique in the industry, and it enables organizations to safeguard sensitive data while maintaining the integrity, consistency and usability of the test data.

"We understand that many organizations need a path to systematically mature their quality processes," said John Williams, Senior Vice President of Product Management and Strategy at Compuware Corporation. "Compuware Quality Management represents a crucial step on that path, and is designed to help QA organizations grow from straightforward test management into a more comprehensive solution for quality process management."

Compuware’s Application Delivery Solutions help IT organizations consistently deliver high quality applications to the business. Compuware’s approach to application delivery builds quality and performance into the application from the earliest phases of the development life cycle. Using these powerful solutions, IT organizations can more efficiently and effectively deliver outstanding application quality to drive maximum business value.

Compuware Corporation

Compuware Corporation 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/.