Software Documentation & reverse engineering
Documentation in software lifecycle remains the most important and most neglected phase of development. For a live application, documentation is the most important asset that will help when things go wrong or if important functionality need to be enhanced.
At Insoft, we take a systematic, organized approach to understanding the existing application and we reverse engineer the functionality in clear, usable documents. Our documents will help identify code redundancies, use of unlicensed third party tools, external interfaces that might be incurring cost.
As part of the reverse engineering exercise, we will also provide a future state that will help upgrade your application to the next level.
Comparison below
| Good documented application | Undocumented Application | ||
|---|---|---|---|
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Ease of maintenance |  |
Maintenance difficult or impossible with developer who wrote the application |
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Easy and cost effective to fix problems | |
Problem fixing difficult, time consuming and not guaranteed to get clean fix |
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Easy to make changes | |
Changes not cost effective or clean as impact of change cannot be determined |
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Easy to design future state and upgrade to modern technologies | |
Future state difficult to project correctly and involves trial and error |
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Provides visibility and clarity on third party tools, associated licensing issues and external interfaces | |
No visibility on hidden license costs and (in)compatibility issues |
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Removes resource dependency | |
Heavily resource dependent |