BonCode for OutSystems
Assess the future-proofness of your OutSystems solution using our automated source code analysis for low-code software.
Manage your quality risks
BY MEASURING factS
OutSystems is a wonderful development platform, yet from a management or risk perspective it is not different from any other development platform. We are independent experts in software quality, who have witnessed the serious consequences that poorly developed software can have on business, productivity and job satisfaction.
We have specialized in OutSystems, by optimizing our tooling, dashboard and approach to the specific characteristics of the OutSystems platform.
By continuously monitoring whether applications have been developed correctly and optimally, we ensure that your risks are transparent and manageable.
Automated Function Point Analysis
The revival is here
Even though the technology and methods exist for over almost half a century now, Function Point Analysis (FPA) is back. Function Point Analysis allows you to size and estimate the cost of work on systems. The rising popularity of FPA is no surprise. The world of low-code software languages might be the cause, because high productivity claims by low-code platforms can be supported by fact-based results from Function Point Analysis.
The BonCode platform will support your internal discussions with facts from our Function Point Analysis. Together with time tracking data from your software teams, you can provide useful metrics such as the productivity of your teams.
Quantify functionality
Quantify the amount of business functionality a system provides to its users and it relates to the code quality and size.
Productivity benchmarking
Measure the internal productivity and effectiveness of your development team to optimize team focus and output.
Estimate costs of maintenance
Determine how costly a system is to maintain, based on the size of the system in function points.
Objective answers
Progress vs Quality
A delicate balance
Shipping new features and improvements to your customers is a priority on every roadmap. Quality is not a goal in itself, especially if it’s not explicitely demanded by your customers. It’s an ongoing challenge to find balance between progress and long-term quality, to ensure customer retention and prevent unexpected costs and brand damage at a later stage.
Because the findings from our platform are actionable, we enable you to optimize the quality of your OutSystems solution without compromising on progress.
Measuring productivity
Benchmark & Monitor
Discussing productivity in your organization can be a sensitive topic. Low levels of productivity at your workplace can affect employee morale, hinder efficiency and affect profit margins. It is usually the result of a number of internal issues through various layers of an organization.
Our platform will make it easier for you to stay objective during your internal discussions, by providing you with facts about team productivity in your OutSystems platform. By benchmarking your productivity in OutSystems and measuring it over time, we will enable you to monitor progress and break the downwards spiral.
OutSystems best-practices & ISO 25010
Measuring many things
Asking what we measure is like asking a doctor what he measures. In short: we measure what’s needed and our measurements are rooted in the standards of ISO 25010.
Key factors we measure include:
- Unit size: Large units of code are less readable, testable and maintainable.
- Code Duplication: If you have duplicated code, the maintenance effort is duplicated, the risk for errors is duplicated.
- Code complexity: Highly complex modules are not well understandable, testable, readable and adaptable.
The reports from our platform will provide you with insights at a management level and from the generic ISO 25010 perspective, which makes it a valuable, actionable and overarching addition to the already great Architecture Dashboard (AD) that the OutSystems platform offers.
What you’ll get
ACtionable & INDEPENDENT Objectivity
Assessments
Monitoring
OutSystems benchmark
Cases & Articles
FROM THE BONCODE TEAM
BonCode Drives Quality of Medtronic’s OutSystems Center of Excellence
Exec Summary With up to 11 concurrent development projects and 30 OutSystems developers, software quality assurance is a crucial concern for Medtronic. Many of its OutSystems apps support life-critical digital health products used by patients and...
A Stroll from Software Quality, to Function Points, to Money
Last week I met a client, I'll call him Tim1, that I've worked intensively with for many years. It was one of those meetings that you have around the turn of the year—half retrospective and half looking at our plans for the year ahead. For lunch, we walked from our...
Eerste OutSystems benchmark op initiatief van gebruikers gelanceerd
De onafhankelijke OutSystems benchmark meet technical debt en productiviteit 's-Gravenhage, 14 december 2021 – Een groep van OutSystems gebruikers kondigt vandaag aan dat ze de eerste onafhankelijke OutSystems benchmark hebben gelanceerd om...
BonCode Partners with Vopak to minimize technical debt across core OutSystems Applications
Executive Summary Vopak is one of OutSystems' largest clients. Its software factory involves 50 developers, 16 scrum teams, and over 40 applications. Quality is paramount for these business-critical applications — which is why Vopak partners with BonCode. Learn how...
OutSystems Productivity Analysis & Code Complexity
Function Point Analysis has become an important tool once again. In the era of low-code and no-code, faster development and faster time-to-market it serves as way to monitor and control the speed of your development teams. When the functional size is monitored over...
The revival of Function Point Analysis is here
Even though the technology and methods exist for over almost half a century now, Function Point Analysis (FPA) is back. The rising popularity of FPA is no surprise. The world of low-code software languages might be the cause. “High productivity claims by low-code...
What makes us different
Why BonCode?
We are independent
We operate completely free from the influence of any other organization. All our pricing is based on fixed scope-dependent fees instead of ever-increasing hours.
Evidence-based
We avoid assumptions by using our objective BonCat-platform and being fully transparent about the sources and insights we provide.
Actionable for any role
Our findings include concrete follow-up tasks that are optimized for the various layers in your organization.
Industry veterans
We are experts in software quality with a demonstrable track-record in analysing and safeguarding highly complex software.