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Visualizing Risks in Software Development


Metallect IQ Server update adds tools for diagramming and task management

By Jeff Feinman
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April 15, 2007 —  Metallect, a Plano, Texas-based provider of software risk management tools, is expected to announce the newest version of Metallect IQ Server, an automation and reporting engine, on April 16.

Metallect IQ Server 2.7 includes a new diagramming function that allows businesses to view a greater amount of “high-level” detail. The main goal of the diagram is to facilitate collaboration between IT and business, according to company officials.

Guy Hoffman, CEO of Metallect, explained that “with a diagram like this—where you can actually demonstrate where different forms of code exist as well as the ramifications of tasks throughout the application—you can figure out risk factors, and IT has the ability to explain the complexity of what they’re doing in terms that the business people can understand.”

Other new features of IQ Server include granular graphing capabilities that can help to foresee unintended mistakes, and a main page task list that allows customers to duplicate tasks.

TAKING THE NEXT STEP
Metallect IQ Server was first introduced in 2004, and went out initially as a product for source code search and browsing, according to Hoffman. Metallect added reporting capabilities to the product in 2005, but Hoffman said that even then, there wasn’t enough input regarding software risk management.

“Our customers kept coming back to us saying, ‘Development spans beyond the development organization, and we really need a mechanism for people to collaborate across these different entities—like the gap between the developer and QA,’” Hoffman said. “That’s when customers said, ‘We need you to add some improved visualization techniques because we need some higher-level views of this, and you need to give us more simplified tasks.’ So this new version is really that next step.”

The reporting functions of Metallect IQ Server include an application dependency report—which identifies resources in an application that are being referenced by other applications—a summary of the complexity metrics for a selected application, and an impact analysis report. IQ Server scans source code and metadata to create a catalog of application components. The tool then analyzes information collected during these scans with multiple proprietary algorithms to infer relationships between components.




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