Compuware leads the software testing tool market says Ovum

There was an interesting press release from Compuware this week. It covers the latest Ovum report on the Software testing tool market.

"The Ovum report titled: "Summary of the Software Testing Tools Evaluations," the top-six test automation tools vendors were evaluated on scope of support and strength across all features. According to Ovum, the top test automation toolsets are now all part of a larger application life cycle management and/or quality management portfolio.

The Ovum model rates test automation support through the whole lifecycle including development, not just the late, independent QA test stage. "When balancing both the breadth of offering and the depth of the products, Compuware is the leader," stated the report.

In Ovum's evaluation of Compuware, Ovum principal analyst, Paul Herzlich, wrote: "Most of the industry's test management tools provide very little support for test planning. Compuware's ability to associate risk with tests, calculate optimum test resource usage and align test plans to business objectives remains unique among the major test automation vendors."

The Compuware PR does not mention the other tool vendors but if you look at the quadrant presented in the Ovum report Borland, IBM and HP are in a cluster some way behind Compuware with Parasoft and finally Empirix following up at the tail.

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