Software Reviews

Objective software analysis, including a review of all technical decisions and corresponding organizational processes

As a project manager, do you feel anxious during the software development process because it isn’t running as smoothly as you had planned at the outset? Are releases delayed for months? Does the software seem to have more than its fair share of bugs?

Take advantage of our expertise: We conduct an objective software analysis, including a review of all technical decisions and all corresponding organizational processes. Our experts manually evaluate your application, apply automatic code analysis tools, and interview target groups to systematically reveal the weak points in your application. We then present you with concrete evaluations and recommendations that we discuss together with you.

Software-Reviews: How You Benefit

We believe in-depth problem analysis should always come before hasty symptom management. Software reviews often improve the quality of an application and enable you to save on costs in the long term. In addition, you can save time during active development projects by addressing and implementing potential improvements directly in upcoming sprints. That’s why we want to help you confront your problems proactively.

The Planning Phase

How does our software review process work?

In the planning phase, we work together to analyze the system in question and define concrete goals. In addition, we determine the scope and focus of our review process. During a kick-off workshop, we present you with our review team and explain the process going forward. Then we begin our analysis.

The Analysis Process

We conduct stakeholder interviews with a range of target groups connected to the system and gather detailed insights into the application’s problems and weak points. At the same time, we analyze the architecture, source text, and application data through a combination of manual checks and automated analysis tools. Finally, we evaluate the results and present them in the form of a final presentation and report.

The Final Presentation

In this presentation, we show you the key results of the software review and provide you with concrete recommendations going forward. Our final report includes in-depth documentation of all of the problems and weaknesses we identified.

Performance Modules for Software Reviews

Qualitative Architecture Analysis

Even a suitable, well-planned application architecture can prove insufficient over time due to changing demands and shifting developments. That is when we recommend carrying out a comprehensive architecture analysis. Our software architects evaluate the security, maintainability, and flexibility of your existing architecture and confidently identify unfavorable design choices.

Qualitative Code Analysis

The way an application architecture is implemented can also lead to problems down the road, for example if a company lacks the necessary technical expertise or if dependencies in the application are out of date. In this case, a qualitative code analysis can help you identify flaws and reveal opportunities to correct them.

Inventory and Quality Analysis of Your Processes

We use specialized analysis techniques such as interviews to develop a process map that we can evaluate based on numerous criteria. This provides you with a list of points that we can analyze in depth and consider as potential starting points for the digitalization of your processes. Throughout this process, we rely on both manual analysis conducted by our experts as well as automated code analysis tools.

Database Analysis

One primary requirement for most systems is a stable, high-performance data repository. Databases and data models must be carefully planned, as they frequently remain in use for longer than the application designed to use them.

We invest time in your databases and evaluate your data repository in a comprehensive review so that you can ensure that the data models and technologies you have chosen continue to serve you in the future.

Infrastructure Analysis

An unstable application that results in frequent downtime or demands an extensive manual intervention and repeated maintenance can drive costs through the roof. By conducting an infrastructure analysis, we can evaluate the reliability of your applications in operation and identify any problems. Such issues may include slow recovery following a crash, insufficient logging for the troubleshooting process, or a low degree of automation. Our concrete recommendations help you implement targeted improvements.

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Do you have any questions about our services or would you like to request additional information? Please feel free to contact me to find out how we can assist you.

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Susann Wnuczek

Managing Consultant

s.wnuczek@fme.de

+49 531 238540