Compuware and SonarSource Unify Multi-Platform DevOps with Integrated COBOL Code Coverage Metrics

Mainframe-inclusive Continuous Code Quality Accelerates Digital Agility While De-Risking Generational Shift in Platform Stewardship

• To be digitally agile, enterprises must more quickly and frequently update their core mainframe systems-while also shifting stewardship of those applications from retiring COBOL veterans to IT staff with mainstream skills.
   
• Compuware has teamed with SonarSource to integrate accurate COBOL test coverage reporting into the automated QA processes they already use to support DevOps and Continuous Delivery.
   
• This new integration empowers large enterprises to dramatically accelerate mainframe application quality and throughput without incurring additional risk-even as they "mainstream" stewardship of those systems.

DETROIT, Jan. 04, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Compuware and SonarSource today released new integrations that empower enterprise DevOps teams to accurately track and validate code coverage of COBOL application testing-with the same ease and employing the same processes-as they do with Java and other more mainstream code.

This ability to automate code coverage tracking across platforms is yet another example of how Compuware is empowering enterprise IT to apply the same proven and essential Agile, DevOps and Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) disciplines to both core systems of record and systems of engagement.

Code coverage metrics provide insight into the degree to which source code is executed during a test-that is, which lines of code have or have not been executed, and what percentage of an application has or has not been tested. These measurements allow IT teams to understand the scope and effectiveness of their testing as code is promoted towards production.

The new integrations automatically feed code coverage results captured by Compuware Topaz for Total Test into SonarSource SonarQube-a popular continuous code quality solution used by more than 900 digitally innovative enterprises-giving DevOps teams an accurate, unified view of quality metrics and milestones across platforms.

Continuous code quality management across platforms is of extraordinary value to large enterprises-since their ability to bring new digital deliverables to market is often contingent on simultaneously updating code across both back-end mainframe systems of record and front-end mobile/web systems of engagement.