Klocwork's static analysis technology delivers on the true promise of offshoring. Under constant pressure to reduce software development costs and deliver high-quality software to market quickly, companies are attracted to the services of offshore development firms. These firms offer access to a large pool of highly skilled software engineers at a fraction of the cost of similar developers in North America. But while the allure of dramatic savings is undeniable, and the use of offshore developers is virtually unavoidable, there are two major issues to consider before beginning your first offshoring project.

Organizations are under continuing pressure to reduce software development costs while delivering high-quality software to the market. Offshore development has become an important strategy for addressing these pressures, but it creates a new challenge: how to ensure software security and quality across distributed development teams and third-party offshore development services. If this issue is not addressed, offshoring can become a more costly option.

With Klocwork static source code analysis, software development organizations can fully realize the potential of offshore development. It de-risks the software development lifecycle by enabling the onshore development team to easily monitor the quality of code being created by the offshore team and to see whether it adheres to the organization’s code quality, code security, and architectural requirements.

Faster Ramp-Up
Experts estimate that it takes two full years to begin to see significant savings in offshoring projects because these projects are slow to get started and become productive. Klocwork Insight helps to address this issue by providing a full architectural analysis that identifies all of the components of an application and illustrates how they are related.

Using this analysis, offshore developers can get a head start on the project by understanding all the major components of the software system, its code, software dependencies and current structure.

Code Quality Measurement
Klocwork Insight detects and measures the quality of software code at multiple stages of the development process. It can be used to:
  • Identify and correct security vulnerabilities before code is shipped to the offshore facility
  • Ensure that the defect level of new offshore code is consistent with pre-established quality metrics
  • Recheck new code before it is submitted into the build process

Offshore Performance Management
Klocwork Insight includes sophisticated reporting tools that can be applied to measure the performance of offshore development partners against service level agreements. At the same time, offshore teams can more quickly learn what is required to meet the system’s policies for quality, security, and maintainability.

[Read more about Klocwork Insight and how it helps build better code.]