Audit Services for Software Health Assessment

All modern businesses depend on software for providing quality services to its customers. Software thus is a single most critical component for service quality and business continuity.

Software Quality assurance traditionally has focused on defining and refining software development processes as in SEI CMM certification or ISO certification to improve software development processes. None of these however focus on the software code as artifact, making it difficult for software consumers to assess the quality to software being deployed in business.

Software artifact quality assessment is done by carrying out testing. Testing is carried out by feeding inputs to the software and examining the output. If the output or behavior is not as expected the software is certified unfit. Typically one needs to feed tens of thousands on inputs, to have reasonable confidence in software artifact. The software consumer organization is never certain that 100% code has been tested and has to deploy the software for use with Acceptance Tests, which cover only the functionality.

SynergyIFS provides software audit services to accurately assess current health of software written in JAVA language. Our auditors conduct computer assisted code walks and guarantee 100% code coverage. The process detects most hidden defects, which are difficult to simulate using the testing described above.

Summary management report is submitted at the end of audit giving business impact of the detected errors enabling management to take quick and quality decisions about remedial actions. The high risk errors must be solved at the earliest. e.g. error in the area of potential security threats, and other defects in performance, scalability, maintainability etc. can be resolved later.

The audit detects software errors due to incorrect usage of the Java language, frameworks, Java and J2EE libraries, deviations from the architecture, design or coding rules specific to an application.

As extended services our auditors can examine the code for critical requirements by developing new rules. e.g. it is a key requirement for your payment gateway application that credit card details are not stored anywhere by the application, our auditors can develop specific rules and certify the application for this security requirement.

We would be glad to conduct sample audit for you to demonstrate the value of our software audit processes on your code base, which will enable you to appreciate the value of the audits.