Software development has always been an expensive undertaking. The following suggestions will reduce your software development costs. We can assist you with implementing these suggestions with the ITS services shown in the adjacent column.

Ensure that you have well defined requirements: Without clear and concise requirements for developers many defects can creep in, causing delays and extra costs to both the developers and the end client. ITS has experienced people who can review requirements for accuracy, completeness, ambiguity and testability.

Use unit, system and integration testing during development: This causes most defects to be found by the developers, where they are most efficiently resolved. ITS does not undertake development testing, as this is best left to the developers, but can advise on suitable processes, methodologies and tools to improve this testing.

Check your test coverage before releasing code: Test coverage can be determined by the percentage of requirements tested or the percentage of line of code executed. ITS is able to conduct project audits on your testing to provide advice on your readiness to release code to your customers.

Use code inspections and reviews to reduce the amount of rework: Significant time and cost can be taken up in reworking code after defects are detected. The use of code inspections and reviews can greatly reduce the number of defects being detected by testing and hence reduce the amount of rework required. ITS can provide advice on how to improve your code inspection processes.