PROGRAM CLEANSING

PROGRAM CLEANSING

Introduction
The Program Cleansing is part of the Migration Services; it provides the means to improve the quality of a software application and eliminate unused/dead code.

Program Cleansing is used when the application owner needs to improve the maintainability of an application to reduce maintenance costs and/or improve efficiency.

Keywords: program cleansing, maintainability, software quality, dead code elimination.

The audience is ICT management and ICT developers.

Purpose of the service
The main purpose of the Program Cleansing is to improve the maintainability of an application. For that purpose all source code is automatically validated against programming standards and customer specific programming guidelines. Additionally, the source code is analyzed to identify dead code, i.e. code that is no longer used in the appliction. All violations and dead code fragments are reported and may be fixed either automatically or manually.

Required input	Process overview	Output
- Application source code - Programming guidelines - Transaction Code Overview	- Interview stakeholders to understand implications - Intake of application source code - Validation of source code against standards & guidelines - Validation of source code for dead code - Customize automated program cleaner - Automated cleansing of source code - Report Application Validation/Cleansing results - Deliver changed application source code	- Application source code overview, e.g.   Size statistics   Program statistics - Application source code validation   Violation statistics   Dead code statistics   Cleaned source code - Documentation   Program Validation/Cleansing Report

Characteristics	Advantages
- Cleansing of software applications - Identification of violations of guidelines - Identification of dead code - Automated - Response time, 2-4 weeks	- Improves maintainability of software applications - Scalable - Cost effective - Based on automated, repeatable process

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