Maintainability Testing
A large share of today’s software development projects are not greenfield projects, but rather take place in environments with extant systems, architectures or code bases. In such a context, high system maintainability is the key to project success.
Maintainability tests help you control maintenance costs by ensuring the maintainability of all artefacts relevant in the software development lifecycle. This typically encompasses not only source code, but also the system’s design, architecture and documentation.
For decades, many companies have been struggling to achieve the benefits predicted for their IT projects, and despite the swift development in this sector, project success often still proves elusive. Research shows that technical quality is crucial to project success, but, unlike functional quality, is often not verified appropriately.
Maintainability Testing offers a solution to this challenge by ensuring the quality and consistency of all artefacts necessary for the effective and efficient implementation of changes to a system. To accomplish this, Maintainability Testing ensures that:
- Maintainable code is produced
- Choice of technology, architecture and design are validated with regard to the expected use of the system
- Documented design and architecture are in synch with the system’s implementation
To this end, Maintainability Testing makes use of a range of methods from the field of software engineering. These activities can be performed as a one-time assessment, but only a continued application of Maintainability Testing leverages the full return on investment. SQS can support you in creating fully automated maintainability test environments that offer both management-level quality dashboards and in-depth information for development teams.
The customer’s benefits at a glance:
- Transparency and increased reliability when planning changes
- Significant reduction in maintenance expenditure
- Increased system viability
- Assurance of required system maintainability
- Ability to control and direct internal quality of offshore implementation work
- Increased team productivity and shorter ramp-up times for new staff
- Monitoring facility to track changes in maintainability over time, acting as an early warning
