Every business application faces the same test: IT must solve business needs and perform as planned. This flexible, pragmatic philosophy is what drives Compuware’s application development solutions—and what separates us from typical infrastructure vendors.

Whether you’re using Java, .NET or a mixed platform, or agile or waterfall development approaches, Compuware has the tools and technical services that drive high productivity and quality throughout your development life cycle. The proof is in the results. Every day, Compuware customers reap the benefits—development speeds as much as doubled, costs cut in half—while increasing application quality and performance.

Architecture Analysis and Design

Complex development platforms like Java require clear understanding of your application architecture. While it’s challenging enough to plan new programs, developer turnover, poor documentation and the intricacies of changing technology make it even more difficult to step back and understand the full scope and depth of the code involved. It’s no wonder the industry suffers a 70 percent failure rate for building enterprise Java applications.

Compuware OptimalAdvisor can help by delivering the analysis, insight and quality assurance capabilities necessary to improve application architectures. Whether you’re building, integrating or updating applications, OptimalAdvisor’s concise graphical views and metrics will help you immediately understand your application’s dependencies, analyze the impact of changes, and automatically refactor code to ensure an optimal architecture.

Model-driven, Pattern-based Development

The way the world builds software is changing. Enterprise-class, hand-coded applications with fixed requirements and expensive year-long project timelines are no longer practical. Agile, iterative development that maps to shifting business and technology requirements is what’s needed to succeed today.

Advanced development environments like Compuware OptimalJ for J2EE and Uniface, Compuware’s application platform suite, can help you capture development speed, flexibility and control when building composite applications. Visual models let you simplify coding and integration challenges and leverage best practices, while automated transformations turn your models into working code. Your development teams quickly build, customize and deploy high-powered applications driven by business needs, without wasting valuable time tweaking routine infrastructure code.

Debugging and Code Analysis

The earlier errors are corrected in development, the lower the cost of fixing them. This is the mantra that drives Compuware’s award-winning DevPartner family, helping you quickly improve the quality and performance of your Microsoft, Java and 64-bit applications.

DevPartner helps you build applications by design, rather than by chance. Capabilities like automated source code review help your development teams apply the right standards and technologies consistently at every stage of development, even when working with various languages and multi-tiered components. New DevPartner SecurityChecker follows the family success by automatically assessing ASP.NET application security vulnerabilities, and DevPartner Fault Simulator lets you safely explore how a .NET application will respond to potentially fatal faults.

Compuware also features the industry’s most recognized tools for debugging Microsoft-based applications, including BoundsChecker for automated error detection and SoftICE for source-level debugging.

Testing

Compuware DevPartner gives you the ability to catch and fix errors early in development, before they become costly and embarrassing problems in production. DevPartner’s comprehensive unit testing capabilities provide the ideal first step toward quality development—and the perfect complement to your Quality Assurance solutions for functional and load testing.

DevPartner gives your team the ability to detect errors as you develop, and then takes you immediately to the specific line of code generating the error. No more wasted time searching for hidden errors. Also, the ability to analyze code coverage tells you how much code was tested, how well it tested and what was never tested at all, freeing your teams to focus testing where it's needed most.

Tuning

End-user satisfaction is a critical success factor for application development, and Compuware DevPartner helps optimize performance of your Microsoft, Java and 64-bit applications.

DevPartner delivers an accurate profile of your program's memory usage, identifies inefficient slow code and profiles performance bottlenecks right down to the line of source code where the problem occurs. What used to take hours or days to pinpoint and correct can now be handled in minutes.

DevPartner also gives you the ability to trace transactions over multiple servers and technologies to get a wealth of information and in-depth analysis on problems and performance issues. The bottom line: Web applications run more efficiently and with greater integrity, reliability and code stability.