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i’m a startup CEO , and i want to create an Assessment report for my technology(software)

we have a buggy software that break at some random point, we’ve done some improvement to it but i’m not sure is it enough or not.

so i decided to do an assessment report

is there any service for assessing my software quality? or should i outsource this task.

i want to know witch part of my software have critical bugs(architecture, code, …) can i do marketing and sales with these software or not

Answer 13263

Using an outside service to assess software quality seems like a huge waste of time and money.

In my view, software quality is defined by the testing code that tests your software (e.g., unit tests). Figure out the code coverage of your tests and that is a good measure of your software quality.

If you don't have testing code, then you have an unmaintainable mess and it will be hard to commercialize.

Answer 13269

What you are looking for is called Software audit review. It is usually performed by external party, not a direct member of whoever is developing the software.

It can be either an auditor firm, another software firm, or an outside consultant. If the results are for your own, internal consumption, outside firm or consultant is the way to go.

There are certain cases where audit review is required by customers, quite often government agencies. In those cases, only a certified auditor can perform this review and those services are very, very expensive.


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