Software quality

Software quality – Increase the sustainability and long-term profitability of your software

Software quality and a target-oriented architecture form the basis for stable, flexible and maintainable software, providing you with an optimal basis for further economic development and a high degree of sustainability of your software solutions.

As a competent partner, PTA offers to actively support and advise you in ensuring and implementing your quality requirements. Regardless of whether you want to check and optimise existing systems or design a new system: We are happy to support you on your way to successfully planning, implementing and continuously developing software projects.

Our competences

We advise and support you in all topics concerning software quality, e.g:

Conception of software architectures
Evaluation of software architectures
qualitative/quantitative Implementation of code reviews
Support and advice on central concepts, e.g.
SOLID
Clean code
TDD
DDD
Support in the collection and interpretation of static code analyses, e.g.
SonarQube
NDepend
Support for dynamic code analysis, e.g.
memory leak
Performance
Application and advice on the use of design patterns
Use of automated tests to reduce the manual test effort, e.g.
unit tests
Mocking Frameworks
automated UI testing
Advice on the identification of DevOps potentials, e.g.
continuous integration
Continuous Delivery

Your benefits

Usability

A uniform Look&Feel of your user interfaces not only increases the acceptance of your users* but also increases the efficiency in development and daily use.

Security

Adherence to industry standards and best practices minimises security risks in your software and the associated potential consequential damage.

Reduced costs

High software quality not only reduces the number of software errors, but also increases maintainability and expandability. This increases the efficiency of further development and the training of new developers*.

Portability

Modular system designs and the elimination of unnecessary third-party components make it faster and easier for you to adapt and port your software to new environments. This ensures that you can react quickly to changing requirements.

Reduced risk

An appropriate software architecture and high software quality protect you from high technical debts and thus reduce the danger of hidden risks. By using automated tests, you ensure that your software continues to work reliably even after adjustments have been made.

Flexibility

By avoiding excessive coupling of code elements, your code remains flexible, interchangeable and robust against extensions and adaptations.

Our experience – how our customers benefit from software quality

As an IT consulting company with 50 years of experience, PTA has many years of expertise in the design and implementation of high-quality software. Our customers include medium-sized and large companies from a variety of industries, which implement and sustainably optimise their software-based business processes with our support. A small selection of projects is referenced below. In our publicly accessible project database you will find further projects for software quality.

Analysis and evaluation of the application landscape of a retail company

After the reorganisation of the IT department of a retail company, the basic IT processes as well as all individually developed applications are analysed by independent consultants.

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Software refactoring for an automated sample transfer module

The sample transfer module is already in end customer use. The software of the module will be refactored to meet the requirements for a 'class II medical device' on the US market.

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Mockups and checklist-based GUI review for a diagnostic software

Check-list-based review of concepts, paper prototypes and realised GUI's for a laboratory software. Proposals for redesign using drawn GUI drafts, tabular operating procedures and information architecture.

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Refactoring
process control

Refactoring of the existing terminal server process control of a loading facility for mineral oil products as well as separation of different components as independent applications.

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Refactoring and further development of the action plan

In an internationally operating trading company, the central application for planning, controlling and reviewing advertising campaigns is being expanded to include new functionalities.

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.net SharePoint Library

The library is used to dynamically manage documents in a SharePoint document library. With the help of this library, redundant implementations over many projects are avoided and thus costs are saved.

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Do not leave your success to chance

Rely on the experience and know-how of PTA for continuous quality assurance.

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Software quality