DETROIT, Dec. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Compuware Corporation today announced that two of its application delivery solutions, Compuware DevPartner SecurityChecker and Compuware DevPartner Studio, won a Software Test & Performance Magazine (ST&P) Testers Choice Award. Winners were announced during the awards ceremony at the Software Test & Performance 2006 Conference in Boston and represented the best-of-class software test and performance management tools that improve software quality.

DevPartner Studio took top honors as the winner in the "SOA/Web Services" category.

ST&P Magazine editors wrote: "In the brave new world of SOA and Web Services, Compuware's DevPartner Studio reigns supreme. With DevPartner Studio, you can build applications, components and Web services for Microsoft .NET and native Windows platforms."

For the second consecutive year, Software Test & Performance readers chose DevPartner SecurityChecker as the winner in the "Security Test Tool" category.

ST&P Magazine editors wrote: "DevPartner SecurityChecker 2.5 simplifies development for ASP.NET application security through automated updates, expanded vulnerability rules and new reporting capabilities offering a choice of manual or automated updating as well as new rules for its compile-time, runtime and integrity analyzers."

Compuware was also a runner-up in the following categories: * Data Test/Performance: Compuware Vantage * Integrated Test Suite: Compuware QACenter Enterprise Edition * Test/QA Management: Compuware QADirector

"It's an honor to once again have our DevPartner, Vantage and QACenter products recognized by readers of Software Test & Performance Magazine," said Larry Angeli, Vice President of Marketing at Compuware Corporation. "The fact that these awards are chosen by developers and QA testers who use our application delivery solutions daily, reaffirms Compuware's commitment to deliver application excellence through quality and performance assurance as well as our unrelenting strength and leadership in the application delivery market."

Compuware's Application Delivery Solutions help IT organizations consistently deliver high quality applications to the business. Compuware's approach to application delivery builds quality and performance into the application from the earliest phases of the development life cycle. Using these powerful solutions, IT organizations can more efficiently and effectively deliver outstanding application quality to drive maximum business value.

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