DETROIT, July 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Compuware Corporation today announced that Compuware DevPartner Studio Professional Edition has won a Visual Studio Magazine (VSM) Readers Choice Award. VSM readers chose Compuware DevPartner as their favorite "Performance, Profiling & Debugging" tool. This marks the sixth consecutive year Compuware has taken top honors in this award category, further validating DevPartner's leadership and value among the developer community.
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"What makes these awards so special and noteworthy is the fact that they are chosen by the developers 'in-the-trenches.' It is the people who use these products on a daily basis who are saying these tools are the best in the market," said Patrick Meader, Editor in-Chief at Visual Studio Magazine. "We respect the work of all the vendors who help make the Visual Studio third-party marketplace so robust and dynamic. Their efforts save countless hours and untold amounts of money for professional developers everywhere."
More than 500 VSM readers cast votes across 22 categories for products that demonstrated the best and most innovative third-party support for Visual Studio.
"It's an honor to have Compuware DevPartner Studio continually recognized by VSM readers," said Kim Turner, Vice President of Quality Solutions at Compuware Corporation. "It is well known that the cost to resolve quality and performance problems becomes exponentially higher after an application goes live. This award is a testament to Compuware's commitment to helping IT build quality and performance into applications from the earliest phases of the development life cycle."
DevPartner Studio is a comprehensive code quality suite that boosts development productivity by automating time consuming tasks such as source code reviews, troubleshooting, performance profiling and unit test validation for Microsoft .NET and native Windows platforms. Using DevPartner Studio, developers can automatically detect and diagnose software defects and performance problems early in the development process and as cost-effectively as possible.
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Compuware Corporation makes IT rock around the world, helping CIOs optimize IT performance to achieve business goals. Compuware solutions accelerate the development, improve the quality and enhance the performance of critical business systems while enabling CIOs to align and govern the entire IT portfolio, increasing efficiency, cost control and employee productivity throughout the IT organization. Founded in 1973, Compuware serves the world's leading IT organizations, including more than 90 percent of the Fortune 100 companies. Learn more about Compuware at http://www.compuware.com/ .
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