How do you know you’re ready to deliver a high quality, “production-ready” application? Have you successfully met business requirements, user expectations and service-level commitments? You can deploy applications with confidence using Compuware’s quality assurance solutions.

The most comprehensive in the market, our approach encompasses best practices, certified experts, a patented methodology and award-winning tools – in the right combination to meet your business objectives.

Requirements Management

Compuware’s disciplined approach to quality assurance starts with a focus on meeting the needs of the business. Early involvement of the QA function in planning and requirements definition ensures that the QA and testing efforts are aligned with the high-priority and high-risk areas of the project. We believe that early and close collaboration between development, quality assurance, operations and the line of business ensures that the QA function considers all important aspects—such as reliability, security, compliance issues and performance–of delivering high-quality applications. QACenter Enterprise Edition and our CARS solution allow you to design and trace application requirements throughout the development life cycle. They provide a platform for common communication which allows for early assessment of business change requests and provides a clear linkage between business objectives and application quality issues.

Risk-based Test Management

Our experience shows that a risk-based approach to life-cycle test management improves the quality of the deployed application. By balancing risk and cost, you can deliver applications on time, at less cost, with fewer resources, and with far fewer defects. Both QACenter Enterprise Edition and CARS used a risk-based test management approach to ensuring application quality. QACenter Enterprise Edition allows the QA team to analyze the various business and technical risks associated with the development effort. Test scripts, test scenarios and test cycles can be designed to test high-risk areas of the project first. CARS takes this approach to the next level. A methodology-enabled workbench and quality dashboard can be used to provide real-time metrics—related to project risk, quality, schedule and cost - to the IT organization.

Unit, Functional and Load Testing

Our award-winning test automation tool set includes testing and debugging tools for the developer and a fully integrated set of functional, performance and regression testing products for the QA team. Developers need the right tools - regardless of the environment. DevPartner provides a comprehensive development, debugging and tuning solution, from concept to coding to unit test completion. This family of products covers Microsoft, Java, 64-bit and driver development, helping you improve productivity and increase software reliability, from simple two-tier applications to complex distributed and web-based systems.

QACenter provides an extensive suite of functional and performance testing tools, across mainframe, distributed and web-based platforms. When combined with Xpediter on the mainframe and DevPartner in distributed and Web services environments, QACenter provides comprehensive test and debugging support for enterprise-wide applications.

CARS is Compuware’s quality management solution, bundling QACenter, DevPartner, Vantage and File-AID with a patented, automated QA methodology and QA certified experts into a single solution. CARS improves application delivery results by instilling a consistent discipline across development, quality assurance and operations. By following this systematic testing approach, you adhere to a consistent quality assurance process, ensure the most critical of business requirements are met and deliver the quality metrics required to make a sound "go/no go" decision.

Test Data Management

You can reduce the cost of testing in diverse and complex environments by using File-AID. Either bundled with CARS, or used in conjunction with QACenter, File-AID protects sensitive production data when it’s used in a test environment, provides the ability to analyze, restructure and comply with regulatory requirements such as HIPAA, diagnoses production data problems quickly and allows you to access data consistently across platforms. Spending more time on data management than on application development and testing? File-AID saves time and manpower, so your team can focus on delivery high-quality applications.

Quality Discipline

Real-time metrics and comprehensive reporting of key quality and performance metrics allow IT management to manage project costs, schedules and quality levels throughout the QA and testing effort. IT management can make informed “go live” decisions, deploying applications with confidence. CARS is designed to help IT organizations deliver high-quality applications, on schedule and within budget. Many companies find it difficult to balance all three of these quality yardsticks: number of defects, project schedule and project budget. Usually one or two of these indicators are sacrificed to meet the third and more important objective. CARS provides a level of discipline that allows all three of these objectives to be achieved, on a consistent basis, project after project. Using CARS, quality becomes a continuous process with importance throughout the IT organization.