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Compuware QACenter Enterprise Edition 5.0's Risk-Based Test Management Enables Organisations to Prioritise Test Efforts Based on Business Requirements
London, 21st June 2004 - Compuware Corporation (NASDAQ: CPWR) today announced the release of version 5.0 of Compuware QACenter Enterprise Edition, its comprehensive suite of functional testing products. QACenter Enterprise Edition 5.0 includes significant new functionality that breaks down the barriers between the development and testing phases of the application life-cycle by enabling QA teams to understand and manage their testing efforts within the context of the business requirements of an application.
Risk-based Test Management
Testing organisations lack the means to manage their testing practices
by prioritising each piece of functionality in terms of the impact it
has on the business service the final application will deliver. Risk-based
test management directly addresses this by helping control QA costs through
focused and prioritised testing. Compuware QACenter Enterprise
Edition 5.0's risk-based testing methodology enables testers to rank functional
test requirements based on various business, technical and historical
factors. It provides management-level reporting, detailed statistics and
metrics and automatically correlates testing results with business requirements.
This ensures that testing efforts are aligned with business priorities,
enables IT managers to make more informed deployment decisions and streamlines
the entire testing process.
"Application quality is everyone's concern and, increasingly, the C-level is beginning to understand that effective QA is key to mitigating risk, delivering value and increasing IT service levels," said Theresa Lanowitz, Research Director, Gartner. "Over the past few years, the testing market has seen very little innovation. New solutions that provide clear-cut ways for QA teams to measure and manage their testing efforts based on business risk - the likelihood that an application will succeed or fail at its business purpose -will be the testing tools of choice for organisations who understand the importance of QA's role in the application life-cycle."
QACenter Enterprise Edition 5.0's risk-based test management greatly improves the quality of applications, maximises the utilisation of resources and supports on-time deployment. Test cases created in QACenter Enterprise Edition are ranked and executed based on their assigned priorities. QA teams can then summarise quality statistics by business requirement and priority. If requirements change, QACenter Enterprise Edition allows organisations to quickly re-align testing efforts to new business priorities by automatically creating a revised testing plan that will quickly demonstrate the impact the changes will have on the testing process.
"It's a simple fact - QA can't test everything, but it is expected
to help mitigate the risk of failure for business critical applications
and get this extremely important job done in a very short amount of time,"
said Mark Eshelby, Compuware QACenter Product Manager. "QACenter's
risk-based test management feature is truly a breakthrough in application
quality. It enables QA teams to align testing with business goals, allowing
them to objectively prioritise testing and communicate the status of application
quality in terms that both IT and business stakeholders can understand."
Also new in QACenter Enterprise Edition 5.0
Additional updates to QACenter Enterprise Edition 5.0 bring the QA team closer to the business requirements of the applications they are testing. New features enable QA teams to measure the progress of their testing efforts in the context of business requirements, plan and communicate an effective test execution campaign in terms that business stakeholders can understand, centrally manage and execute various manual and automated testing assets and automate the process of entering, tracking and resolving defects found during the testing process.
New features include:
- Web-based, comprehensive quality metrics - Testers and test managers can better measure the progress and effectiveness of their testing activities by understanding the quality of the application in terms of its business requirements. QA metrics are often cryptic and have little meaning to stakeholders outside the QA team. QACenter Enterprise Edition 5.0's new, unified reporting has standard and customised reports that can be tailored to fit the needs of both business managers and testers. High-level reports give IT executives the knowledge they need to deploy reliable applications with confidence and include metrics that illustrate how much testing has been completed and what bugs and defects are outstanding.
- Centralised library of test and data assets - In most organisations, QA is challenged with testing applications running on various platforms over multiple tiers. To ensure that teams can effectively manage the large number of complex testing assets, Compuware QACenter Enterprise Edition 5.0 features a centralised library of test and data assets. This enables QA teams to coordinate a variety of development and testing tools using a single interface and more efficiently manage the testing of Web, distributed, packaged and mainframe applications.
- Intuitive Web and Windows interfaces - In order to reduce the time it takes entry-level testing staff to become productive, Compuware QACenter Enterprise Edition 5.0 includes a new browser-based user interface. This easy-to-use environment reduces the product's learning curve, minimises installation time and improves the efficiency of the testing team.
Pricing and Availability
Compuware QACenter Enterprise Edition 5.0 is available immediately.
Compuware Corporation
Compuware Corporation (NASDAQ: CPWR) is a world leader in delivering software and services that enable businesses to manage their enterprises and maximise the value of their IT assets. Compuware solutions accelerate the development, improve the quality and enhance the performance of business-driving applications. Founded in 1973, Compuware serves the world's leading IT organisations, including more than 90 per cent of the Fortune 100 companies.
For more information please contacthttp://www.compuware.co.uk
Compuware is a registered trademark of Compuware Corporation. All other product and company names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
Compuware is a member of The Prince's Trust Technology Leadership Group (TLG), a premier industry-networking forum for leaders within the IT industry, established in May 2002.
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Kewal Varia/Sophie Jarvis
Spark Communications
020 7357 8612
sophie@sparkcomms.co.uk
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