Technical Analysis Consulting
Software applications cannot remain static when organizations grow and industries change. Technical analysis helps you understand how and why the performance, reliability, or scalability of your software could improve. It can be instrumental when you aren’t certain what it takes for legacy code to move to the cloud or evolve with the company.
In a technical analysis, senior software engineers closely review your application in line with industry-best practices for code quality, security, robustness, and implementation effectiveness. Technical-analysis consultants have deep expertise in various programming languages and practices, as well as such disciplines as software architecture, quality assurance, cybersecurity, and continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD). Technical analyses follow proven processes, but vary depending on the issues you want to address, integrations between your application and other systems, and other conditions.
How your solution compares to the state-of-the-art
Technical analysis comprises two phases. First, we focus on your code, then we examine the complete solution.
- Code base analysis determines how well your code follows best practices for coding standards in a certain language and in the context of your industry. We review code quality, security vulnerabilities, unresolved bugs, needless code duplications, and any potential issues in a static analysis. Next, we consider your code in-depth to determine how effectively it follows the coding standards for its development environment, how well it is layered, what liabilities might present if you add new functionality, what code coverage looks like, and other concerns.
- Solution analysis involves several important areas, including solution architecture, technology stack, repository management, quality assurance, CI/CD practice, and persistence strategy. For each, we document and test current operating conditions, and verify how they meet the requirements for solution performance, reliability, security, flexibility, scalability, and availability.
Getting from the current to the desired solution state
The main output of your technical analysis is a comprehensive report that presents our findings and recommendations. We discuss this with you as we suggest changes in skills and roles, process improvements, updates in technical tools and infrastructure, and ways to resolve coding issues that compromise your solution. The report becomes your planning guide for next steps.
You can build on technical analysis insights to take your development practice and solution to the next level. If you continue to collaborate with Tiempo, we can speedily translate technical analysis into results.
