What Our Customers Say

Software Maintenance reminds me of the game of skill named "Jenga" were you remove the blocks and stack up the layers until the tower topples. Maintaining software is even more challenging because its structure and state are invisible. However, we indirectly sense the fragile design: By more bugs and crashes, by longer runtimes, by unreliable project plans, by higher costs, etc.

Documentation can help, but it is no magic bullet, because the documentation also has to be maintained. Thus, it is effected by the same drivers that lead to the deterioration of software.

This is where tools can facilitate our work. Visualization tools can show and measure the creeping deterioration. Compromising changes are discovered and can be corrected. Reconstruction tools help us to spot hidden dependencies in the software and thus discover all effected pieces of code. Transformation tools help us to reduce the required effort to implement structural adaptations before adding new functionalities.

A lot of these tools are already available with the Axivion Bauhaus Suite.

Gerd Bleher,
Agilent Technologies