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90% of defects found in production and 60% found in QA relate to cross-component or cross-technology interactions. Measure compliance with 100+ system-level rules.
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Appmarq is the biggest repository of data about real IT systems. It gives IT leaders factual key analytics to know whether their applications are on track.
Security score vs. peers
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Compare security, robustness, efficiency, transferability and changeability with similar applications in your industry.
2,200+ApplicationsCore systems, cloud and mobile, ERP and CRM
400+OrganizationsFinancial services, government, retail and more
2B+Lines of codeIn-house, outsourced and captive
1,000+Quality rulesSecurity, efficiency, robustness and more
40+ technologies: JEE, JSP, COBOL, .NET, ABAP, C, C++, C#, PHP, PL/SQL, T-SQL, Visual Basic and more.
Available benchmark analytics
The industry’s most extensive application quality benchmarking repository, with quality statistics, trend data and best practices across sectors and geographies.
Security
The likelihood of security breaches linked to coding practices and source code. Compare the security of your application with your competitors.
Efficiency
Potential performance bottlenecks and future scalability issues linked to coding practices. Compare with similar applications across your industry.
Robustness
The risk of application failures and defects resulting from modifications. Verify that your team follows robustness programming best practices.
Transferability
How easily applications move between teams, in-house or outsourced. Make sure your service provider meets transferability requirements.
Changeability
How easily applications can be modified to add features, fix errors or change environment. See whether your software makes your business less agile.
Critical violations
Find out which software engineering flaws are most common in your teams, and educate developers and architects based on their peer group.
Collected demographics
Filter the benchmark population to compare with applications that look like yours.
- Industry
- Energy, financial services, government, insurance, IT and business consulting, manufacturing, media, pharmaceuticals, retail, software ISV, telecommunications, utilities
- Technology
- JEE, JSP, COBOL, .NET, ASP, SAP, C, C++, C#, PHP, PL/SQL, T-SQL, Visual Basic, PL1…
- Methodology
- Waterfall, agile/iterative, mix of agile and waterfall, RUP…
- Application type
- Analytics, core transactional system, CRM, customer portal, ERP…
- Sourcing type
- In-house, outsourced, captive center
- Other demographics
- Application age, developers range, CMMI level, development phase…
CRASH reports
CAST Research Labs publishes a biennial report on software trends across technologies and industry segments, the CRASH Report (CAST Research on Application Software Health), plus targeted research studies.
CRASH Report 2017
Full report. 1,850 applications, 1.03 billion lines of code, 329 organizations, 8 countries.
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CRASH Report 2016 on Financial Services
Executive summary. Trends in robustness, security, efficiency, transferability and changeability.
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CRASH Report 2016 on Financial Services
Focus on development methodology, with insights on agile and DevOps from Microsoft.
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CRASH Report 2016 on Insurance
Full report, with insurance technology insights from CGI.
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The SAP CRASH Report 2015
Full report. Benchmarks across languages, sourcing and methodology.
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The CRASH Report 2014
Full report. 1,316 applications from 212 organizations, 706 million lines of code.
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CRASH Java Frameworks Report
Impact of JEE frameworks on the quality of applications.
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The CRASH Report 2011/2012
Executive summary. 745 applications from 160 organizations, 365 million lines of code.
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