Solidware Solutions | Increase SDLC Transparency
Increase Transparency across the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
Across the SDLC, there are many handoffs: handoffs from development to testing teams (and back), methodology-specific formalized phase gate reviews, and other natural inflection points such as introducing outsourced code or completing a major portion of functionality. The common factor for all handoffs is that they involve decisions and usually multiple stakeholders. What is needed most is what's all too often lacking most: objectivity and predictability.
The Solidware SWaudit software auditing platform enables extreme transparency across the SDLC to support decision-making. With quantitative measurements of software quality and a focus on what's actionable, SWaudit arms Development Team Leaders and other phase gate or interim handoff stakeholders with objective information to ultimately improve software quality and schedule predictability:
- Find systemic coding practice issues earlier in the development phases before they handicap a project.
- Correlate test coverage data with risky code to not only gauge how much is being tested but, more importantly, if the failure-prone areas are being tested. The common reality is that the easy and obvious are tested, while areas that truly need testing are largely ignored.
- Quantify your experiences of previous successes and failures for objective cross-project and cross-release comparisons.
- Prioritize areas within projects to focus resources and maximize return on rework efforts in terms of quality risk mitigation.
- Remove subjectivity in assessing software readiness for QA, system integration, field deployment, etc.
- Benchmark quality risk to evaluate suitability for reusing existing code or introducing 3rd party code.
From high-level objective dashboards... (projects obscured and numbers removed to protect customer data):
...to detailed actionable reports (like this risk-ranked listing of packages to test or refactor):
