Source2VALUE
Expertise
Computer Aided Redocumentation & Evaluation (CARE)
With Care, Computer Aided Redocumentation and Evaluation, we work with you to increase the quality of the maintainability of your custom software. We offer you a concept that guarantees continual insight into the functioning of your system. It includes automatic redocumentation, together with a comprehensive overview of the status your software during its entire life cycle. This is achieved by periodically monitoring and evaluating all aspects of the development or maintenance cycles.
Insight from re-documentation
Research has shown that approximately 50% of an IT budget for software maintenance is spent in analyzing existing systems. A logical implication is that efficiency improvements in performing analysis will offer the greatest potential to deliver the highest savings. Clearly the best way to achieve this is to update and upgrade the documentation.
With our CARE concept, we provide insight into the functioning of your software by automatically generating technical documentation and by implementing a process for computer-aided maintenance of functional documentation.
Insight from evaluation
Did you know that experience shows that between 15 and 30% of the program code of existing systems is no longer used but that it is still maintained? Did you also know that during the building or alteration of a system the feasibility of the planning can be assessed at an early stage? We use CARE to provide a periodical insight into the parts of your program code that are potentially redundant, and to systematically evaluate your systems during construction and modification.
CARE with Source2VALUE
Do you want your software documentation to be always up-to-date?
With the CARE implementation of Source2VALUE, we ensure that the technical documentation always corresponds to the current implementation of the target software system. The technical documentation comprises graphical (UML) models cross-referenced with source code. Further, by employing our Source2VALUE Use Case Editor and working with you, we are able to create up-to-date functional documentation and to secure the future maintenance of that documentation. Subsequently we can ensure that the documentation then provides a well-defined trace from business model to technical model. In addition the technical and functional documentation can de exported to CASE tools such as Rational Rose or Enterprise Architect. With a new version of the software, changes in the models are signalled so that related documentation can be kept up-to-date.
Do you have insight into the technical quality risks and the amount of work accomplished?
With a CARE implementation of Source2VALUE, we provide insight into, among others, the maintainability, complexity, double-programmed code, compliance with standards and guidelines, and the size (in (maintenance) function points) of your systems.