Compuware Announces Powerful New Requirements Management Solution.

New Capability Extends Compuware's Application

Development Lifecycle Leadership

ORLANDO, Fla., May 5 /PRNewswire/ --

Compuware Corporation (Nasdaq: CPWR) today announced at Orlando's STAR East International Conference its upcoming requirements management capability soon to be available through two of the company's product solution sets. This technology, called Reconcile, will be available through QACenter and NuMega DevPartner Studio. Reconcile -- which helps IT organizations deliver applications that meet business expectations -- is part of Compuware's overall strategy to offer IT organizations a complete solution across the entire application lifecycle from a single-vendor source.

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Implementing a disciplined process of capturing, analyzing and communicating product and testing requirements and requirement changes can eliminate costly schedule slips and application failures. With Reconcile, organizations can

leverage several unique capabilities to control and communicate requirements changes across the lifecycle to help meet the ever-increasing time to market and quality demands of their end-users -- and maximize the opportunity for project success. Requirements are created and edited directly in Microsoft Word. Requirement attributes and interrelationships between business, functional, and testing requirements are easily traced within Reconcile's comprehensive reporting and web publishing functionality.

Reconcile also works with several other Compuware ASQ products as part of the company's single-vendor, integrated solution approach. Developers and managers can leverage associations between project tasks and defects in Compuware's TrackRecord to better understand and address project demands. The integration between QADirector and Reconcile helps ensure a quality process by validating tests against requirements, making sure original requirements were met.

"This is a powerful solution addition for organizations that need process support across the entire application lifecycle," said Doug Turner, Compuware's Vice President, Product Management. "Adding this intuitive requirements management planning tool further extends our dominant position as a leading vendor in the application development lifecycle space. Only Compuware, with the depth of its testing solution, provides complete lifecycle support for functional and performance testing."

QACenter

Compuware's QACenter offers one of the best solutions in automated testing technology to help organizations meet application quality and performance requirements. For any organization needing to deploy reliable, scalable, e-commerce and enterprise applications, QACenter helps achieve consistent, dependable application performance and quality. Thousands of traditional and dot.com companies rely on QACenter to load-test their applications; understand how those applications will perform in production; plan their testing process; verify the functionality of their applications; validate data and test results; and manage the resolution of defects that are uncovered during the testing process. For Internet, customer-developed, or packaged applications (ERP, CRM, B2B), QACenter provides superior testing value for managers, developers and testers.

NuMega

Compuware Corporation's NuMega products are the worldwide market share leaders in accelerating the development of reliable software for professional Windows, Java and Web developers. These award-winning products substantially improve the productivity of software development teams and the quality of the software they develop. For more information about the NuMega products call 800-4NUMEGA or visit the website at www.compuware.com/numega

Compuware Corporation

With fiscal year 2000 revenues of more than $2.2 billion, Compuware is a world leader in the practical implementation of enterprise and e-commerce solutions. Compuware productivity solutions help 14,000 of the world's largest corporations more efficiently maintain and enhance their most critical business applications. Providing immediate and measurable return on information technology investments, Compuware products and services improve quality, lower costs and increase the speed at which systems can be developed, implemented and supported. Compuware employs more than 15,000 information technology professionals worldwide. For more information about Compuware, please contact the corporate offices at 800-521-9353. You may also visit Compuware on the World Wide Web at http://www.compuware.com

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