Source-Code Based Software Development Cost Reduction Service

As new features are added to software projects release after release code complexity tends to go up and understandability goes down. This results in ever increasing maintenance costs which can eventually nearly halt forward progress for large projects. A key consideration is the average amount of time a developer must think to decide if a one line change will break the code. If this takes twice as long maintenance costs will be roughly twice as expensive. The demands of tight release schedules generally prevent in-house programmers from considering architectural and other quality improvements to source code. The principal has many years experience with techniques to remedy the situation and is very proficient at using them:

• function body size reduction
• function side effect analysis and documentation in comments
• module call graph analysis and removal of circular dependencies
• duplicate code removal
• systematic memory error and leak detection
• bottleneck analysis
• exception handling path analysis
• documentation of all algorithms
• checking all comments against code
• library dependency analysis and circular dependence removal
• separation of high-level and low-level code
• separation of algorithm, model, and user-interface code
• increase of independence of libraries
• determining where algorithms will fail from code analysis
• release-on-release code change review
• combining libraries from disparate sources into a unified framework