Welcome to Software Diagnostics

About Software Diagnostics

Software Diagnostics, a spin-off company of the Hasso Plattner Institute for IT Systems Engineering, offers tools for debugging, monitoring, and visualization of complex software systems and their development processes. The tools derivate software architecture information directly from implementations and obtain precise system dynamics information. The information is visualized based on virtual software landscapes and software maps.

Software Diagnostics products accelerate development processes, reduce debugging efforts, increase software quality, create transparency in software maintenance, and lessen IT development risks. In addition, the portfolio includes customer-specific training and consultancy.

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Key Benefits

Significantly reducing debugging efforts
Accelerating time to value in software developments
Revealing current structure and dynamics of software systems
Significantly decreasing time to market for new software systems
Simplifying understanding of software systems
Boosting efficiency of new team members
Delivering high-quality business-critical applications
Reducing cost and complexity throughout the lifecycle
Improving productivity and quality of software development

Exemplary Application Area

Quality Assurance
- Documenting and revealing software architectures
- Identifying architectural problems where the as-is-architecture hurts architectural guidelines
- Identifying error-prone system components
- Identifying components that slow down development
Programming & Debugging
- Semiautomatic bug identification through dynamic code analysis
- Advanced tracing techniques for fast understanding runtime behavior
Project Management
- Identifying source code parts that are currently under development or have been changed in the past
- Monitoring development activities of large teams and for distributed developments
- Mining hidden correlations between modules, changes, and individual developers
System Tests
- Finding as-is test coverage across moduls
- Monitoring and evaluating testing activities