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Krugle upgrade targets code maintenance issues


By Robert Mullins
July 9, 2008 —  (Page 1 of 2)
Software code search specialist Krugle thinks code maintenance tasks can be simplified with better search functions against software in development and already deployed, something an industry expert says is sorely needed.

Krugle released yesterday its Enterprise 2.3 search appliance that plugs into an application life-cycle management system and finds the sections of code that need fixing in a maintenance upgrade, even when the code is slightly reconfigured for different end users, it said.

Depending on the size of the business and its code maintenance workload, more efficient code search could save from US$4 million to $20 million annually, said Mel Badgett, Krugle’s vice president of product marketing, citing an industry-standard calculation method.

Badgett suggested that, for example, software is written to run on cell phones but must be reconfigured for different wireless carriers and handset makers. Deploying a software upgrade or bug fix could be complicated and costly depending on the number of supported platforms.

“What happens right now,” he continued, “is that a lot of the [post-release] development and maintenance … happens independently.”

But a software maker could use Krugle’s code “snippet” feature to search for exact matches in the code, he noted, as well as similar matches that could be reconfigured code in different branches or releases of the software. The Krugle appliance searches for the section of code that is a problem in all occurrences of that software.

“You’re coordinating all these efforts,” Badgett added, so that development teams don’t wind up managing their mistakes in isolation from the rest of the IT effort.

Companies with billions of lines of source code need this kind of search capability, said Theresa Lanowitz, founder of research firm Voke, as practices such as component development and parallel development take hold.

Component development refers to sections of code combined to perform a specific function and plugged into a software project. Parallel development refers to sections of code place on different “branches” in a code project that have slightly different configuration, as in the cell phone example above.

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