Compuware enhances quality solutions with enterprise-level quality management, collaboration and optimised testing

Poor collaboration results in application defects that are more difficult to resolve. Ensuring that strong teamwork, communications and collaboration occurs between all members of the user and IT community is a must.

"Investing in quality is imperative. With more than half of all software projects considered failed or challenged and with support costs for defective software running as high as 50 percent of the total development cost, companies must invest in quality, even if they don't have the resources or the culture for a full quality assurance (QA) initiative," writes Margo Visitacion, Principal Analyst at Forrester Research.

To this end Compuware has released enhancements to its application quality solutions that enable quality assurance teams to react quickly to changing requirements and business priorities. Information regarding the quality of the application is relayed back to the business user in meaningful terms.

Both versions of Edition 5.1 of Compuware Application Reliability Solution (CARS) and Compuware QACenter Enterprise have the capability to support an enterprise-wide quality management environment. Compuware has also web-enabled the test-management functionality of both applications, adding support for geographically distributed quality assurance teams and simplifying ease-of-use.

Users can now access commonly used test-management functionality from a web browser, allowing them to create test plans that align testing objectives with business requirements, to create and manage manual test scripts, to schedule and manage test execution of manual and automated assets, and to review test results all from a web browser.

"Today's IT executives face a wide array of challenges. From cutting costs to enabling business innovation, IT executives are asked to do it all--while delivering quality results and superior service on a daily basis," said Elizabeth Maly, Director, Compuware Quality Solutions. "IT is now an integral part of the business and most businesses cannot run successfully without reliable IT systems, so quality is a must. A collaborative approach to managing application quality provides efficient and comprehensive testing. Through Compuware's comprehensive quality solutions portfolio, Compuware customers can achieve unparalleled application quality."