BASELINE ASSESSMENT

Introduction
The Baseline Assessment is part of the Maintenance Services. It provides fully detailed insight and documentation of a software application.

The Baseline Assessment serves the application stakeholder who needs to fully understand and document the application, e.g. to be able to maintain or migrate the application. It also serves the needs of customers with severe bug and performance problems.

Keywords: full documentation, program understanding, quality assurance, automated source code analysis, risk mitigation, problem solving.

The audience is ICT management and maintenance/migration teams.

Purpose of the service
The main purpose of the Baseline Assessment is to fully document the application, understand its architecture and its product quality characteristics. It builds on the Application Quick Scan which detects problems, and services to pinpoint the causes of the issues and find possible solutions.

The Baseline Assessment is needed in the case migration of an application is contemplated.

Required input	Process overview	Output
- Customer’s perceived problems - Application source code - Application   design/maintenance   documentation	- Interview stakeholders to understand perceived problems - Intake of source code and documentation - Inventory of source code and documentation - Parsing of the code - Generate documentation web site - Generate software metrics - Assess metrics and documentation - Publish Full Assessment Report - Publish documentation web site	- Application overview:   Languages used   Inventory of software components   Inventory of documentation   Size estimates - Risk assessment:   Design issues   Programming quality risks   Data storage risks   Security risks - Full documentation:   Documentation Web Site   Assessment Report, incl   Risk Mitigation Advice

Characteristics	Advantages
- Identification and cause analysis of technical risks of a software application - Full documentation - Automated - Processing time, 3-6 weeks	- Full insight in technical issues, risks and solutions - Complete - Objective - Cost effective - Based on automated, repeatable process

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