SSW

2004 Consensus Software Awards

Product Summary

As a project or company grows, managing code standards throughout your team becomes virtually impossible. But consistent code is crucial to future development and maintenance. Built in C#, SSW Code Auditor lets you take control of your code and automatically review your web apps and projects - giving you more opportunity to spend time where it really matters.

Here at SSW, we face the problem of maintaining our standards across nearly five thousand web pages, over twenty active projects in both Visual Basic (6 and .NET) and C#. There comes a point where a tool to check our work is needed, this tool is SSW Code Auditor. 

Key Features & Benefits 

• SSW Code Auditor allows to you:

  • Find bugs

  • Keep standards

  • Prevent bad practises

  • All in a simple wizard interface

• More Technical Features include the ability to:

  • Check any text file

  • Check file names 

  • Scan project directories for code that violates your rules

  • Perform deep traversal of directories

  • Scan websites for HTML that violates your rules (checking the result after it is served by the web server)

  • Runs Tidy HTML to validate HTML 

  • Use the report that is written to an .mdb, or to export to XML 

  • organize jobs into separate projects

  • allow exceptions to rules, thus ignoring files that you are aware of

  • setup on a schedule to run every night

  • Use Regular Expression to define more rules

  • Regular Expression builder included

Rule definition screen

Progress indicator

"SSW Code Auditor makes this much easier for novices by including a wizard to build and test regular expressions for you -- that alone is worth the price of the tool if you're struggling with regex's." 

Mike Gunderloy in MCPmag.com 

Innovation

Creating a business advantage

Maintainable software is the key for successful software systems. SSW Code Auditor can help you achieve this goal.

Expanding user horizons

SSW Code Auditor has the unique ability to process a large number of files efficiently and scan for rule violations. This allows an organisation to implement and enforce standards on a broad scope.

Social change or empowerment of users

By performing audits on produced codes, junior programmers can produce extraordinarily clean and error free codes which enhances robustness and legibility of codes.

Performance

Enterprise quality system

In order to provide high quality software systems in today's dynamic business environment, we have adopted the eXtreme Programming (XP) software development method. More on XP

Key to the XP methodology is unit testing, integration testing, and regression testing, which our development team have placed strong emphasis on. All our projects run with a continuous build and test process, any test failure is immediately corrected.

Professionally executed code

Following the XP process, the code that composes our software is constantly being re-factored. The design is fluid and constantly adapting to new execution environment. With the constant use of tools such as code profilers, we identify bottlenecks in code and replace them with more efficient algorithms immediately.

Standards and codes compliance

With our extensive industry experience in .NET technologies, we are an industry leader in defining best practices and standards, developing products such as Code Auditor and SQL Auditor.

Proof of real world performance

One of our projects with Smart Salary involves the conversion of a complex legacy Visual Basic 6 application to the Visual Basic .NET introduced a large number of problems. With the help of SSW Code Auditor, most of the bad coding practices and problematic areas in the converted application have been quickly identified and resolved.

Testimonial: http://www.ssw.com.au/ssw/Company/testimonials.aspx

Real user benefits

Today's businesses rely heavily on software systems in their day-to-day operations. The maintenance and evolution of these software systems presents a monumental task for IT professionals. Without stringent coding standards, this task becomes overwhelming. With the help of SSW Code Auditor, these standards can be maintained across the enterprise, and will greatly improve the maintainability of software systems.

Support

SSW Code Auditor is designed to be extremely user friendly, to the point where support is rarely required. 

SSW provide free comprehensive telephone and email support. The customer is put in direct contact with the employee who developed the application. Moreover, the SSW website offers a plethora of knowledge based articles the step you through everything from installation to FAQ's. Knowledge Based Articles

Potential

Designed for international use

The application is built to run on the .NET framework, which has extensive support for internationalisation through resource files. The application could easily be extended to run in any language.

Its native support for Unicode allows the enforcement of coding standards regardless of the language the code is written in.

Enterprise structured for growth

The rules in SSW Code Auditor are stored in a database which could be centrally located on a server, providing a set of standard rules for the entire organisation. The method of data access allows for easy conversion to use more powerful database servers.

Global design standards

As the application is built on the .NET framework, it follows all the standard user interface elements of the Windows operating system, providing a familiar environment for all users.

Identified potential markets

SSW Code Auditor's extensible architecture allows for its application in varied business functions such as document management and standards enforcement, and even database management.

We're moving away for the traditional target market of software developers to business and home users.

Success in home or export markets 

SSW Code Auditor is predominately sold through our website with the majority of sales being in the US. Currently, we are expanding our presence in Australia through using sales calls to following up leads. We also plan to increase our presence is Asia through boosting our marketing efforts.

Working with international collaborators

SSW is a close affiliate of Microsoft. With our manager appointed as a MSDN regional director, we're always on the cutting edge of Microsoft technologies. Our products receive constant inputs from distinguished Microsoft representatives.

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