Markus Pizka and Thomas Panas, itestra GmbH
Establishing Economic Effectiveness through Software Health-Management
1st International Workshop on Software Health Management (SHM 2009), Pasadena, CA, USA, July 2009.
Abstract
More than two thirds of the annual software budget of large-scale organizations dealing with complex software systems is spent on the perfection, correction, and operation of existing software systems. A significant part of these running costs could be saved if the software systems that need to be constantly extended, maintained and operated were in a better technical condition. This paper proposes Software Health-Checks as a method to assess the technical condition of existing software systems and to deduce measures for improving the health of software in a structured manner. Since 2006 numerous commercial software systems with a total of 30 MLOC, implemented in various technologies, were already checked with this method. The actions suggested as a result of these Software ‘Health-Checks’, repeatedly yielded dramatic performance improvements, risk reductions and cost savings between 30% and 80%.
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