Testing Tools Interview Question:

Explain Compuware?

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Compuware Corporation is a recognized industry leader in enterprise software and IT services that help maximize the value of technology investments. We offer a powerful set of integrated solutions for enterprise IT including IT governance, application development, quality assurance and application service management. Compuware is one of the largest software test tool vendors. It has a turnover in excess of $2 billion and staff of more than 15,000. 9,500 of these are professional services staff with skills covering all the development lifecycle. Compuware does not only supply the tools but will provide staff to initially develop your test suite and handover to internal staff as required.

Compuware's test tool set is second to Rational only on the windows platform (for coverage) but for complete coverage across platforms including mainframe and Unix they are the best. So for the larger company that requires a complete testing solution to cover these platforms it is probably best to start with Compuware as they will offer unit test, database test, mainframe, functional, load, web test, defect tracking and more in their tool set. No other vendor can offer this range.

Compuware Website http://www.compuware.com/

Compuware Software Test Tools

Compuware provides tools for Requirements Management, Risk-based Test Management, Unit, Functional and Load Testing, Test Data Management, and Quality Discipline.

Compuware Application Reliability Solution (CARS) offers a more effective approach. CARS combines our patented methodology with innovative enterprise-wide technologies and certified quality assurance expertise to instill a consistent discipline across development, quality assurance and operations. By following this systematic testing approach, you:
- adhere to a consistent quality assurance process
- deliver the quality metrics required to make a sound go/no go decision
- ensure the most critical of business requirements are met

QACenter Enterprise Edition: Requirements Management Tool. Align testing with business requirements. With QACenter Enterprise Edition you can:
- prioritize testing activities through the assignment of risk
- align test requirements with business goals
- quickly measure progress and effectiveness of test activities
- centrally manage and execute various manual and automated testing assets
- automate the process of entering, tracking and resolving defects found during testing.

Compuware DevPartner: A family of products providing a comprehensive development, debugging and tuning solution to the challenges of application development, from concept to coding to security and finally to completion. DevPartner products cover 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.

Xpediter: Analyze, test and debug mainframe applications. With Xpediter you can:
- Analyze programs and applications
- Test and debug programs interactively
- Understand and control the process of data and logic
- Identify what has executed within an application
- Debug DB2 Stored Procedures
- Test date and time related logic

File-AID: Test data management tool. Help you pull together test data from multiple source to create, move, convert, reformat, subset, and validate your test date bed. The test methodology has helped organizations test more efficiently and effectively.
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