APPLICATION AUDIT

Introduction
The Application Audit is part of the Assessment Services. It provides detailed insight in the technical quality characteristics of a software application.

The Application Audit is used when the application owner needs to get detailed understanding of the technical issues of the application.

Keywords: detailed insight, software metrics, problem and goal driven, simple and clear message. Uses automated analysis tools.

The audience is ICT management and developers.

Purpose of the service
The main purpose of the Application Audit is to evaluate quality characteristics, such as maintainability.

For that purpose the Application Audit will evaluate the application identifying structural and architectural deficiencies and will provide suggestions for improvement.

Required input	Process overview	Output
- Customer’s perceived problems - Application source code - Application   design/maintenance   documentation	- Interview stakeholders to understand perceived problems (GQM) - Intake of source code and documentation - Inventory of source code and documentation - Generate software metrics - Evaluate quality characteristics - Conceive Assessment Report - Discuss Assessment Report with stakeholders - Finalize Assessment Report	- Application overview:   Languages used   Inventory of software components   Inventory of documentation   Size metrics - Application Maintainability:   Software metrics   Analyzability   Changeability   Testability   Stability   Solutions - Recommended next steps

Characteristics	Advantages
- Identification of quality characteristics of a software application - Identifies problem areas and solutions - ISO 9126 - Automated - Response time, 3-5 weeks	- Full insight in technical issues, risks and solutions - To the point - Objective - Cost effective - Based on automated, repeatable process

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