US Based HealthCare Products Provider - Sierra 5.2 Code Inspection

1. Case Study Healthcare & Life Sciences
US Based HealthCare Products Provider - Sierra 5.2 Code Inspection
Client Overview
The client is a leading provider of products, services and technologies supporting the Healthcare industry. They employ nearly 40,000 people in 5 continents
and produce annual revenues of more than $88 billion.
The client develops, manufactures, packages and markets products for patient care; develops
drug-delivery technologies; distributes pharmaceuticals and medical, surgical and laboratory The Challenge
supplies; offers consulting and other services that improve quality and efficiency in health care Tedious Visual Code inspection
They are ranked amongst the Top 25 on the Fortune 500 list Developers not inclined to work on
They provide technologies and services that help hospitals manage Code Inspection projects
medications, store and track specialty supplies, identify and prevent hospital acquired Hexaware Approach
infections
Hexaware performed Code Inspection of
The segment for which Hexaware catered to, develops, manufactures, leases and sells
the Sierra 5.2 product suite that consists
medical technology products like of Med Station and Console source code
Intravenous medication safety and infusion therapy delivery systems, software to determine if the code base could be
applications, needle-free disposables and related patient monitoring equipment re-factored or completely redone.
Dispensing systems that automate the distribution and management of medications Hexaware approached the project in
in hospitals and other healthcare facilities following phases.
Solution Framework Knowledge acquisition & Initiation
Hexaware performed code analysis of the product suite and provided recommendations The purpose of this phase was to gather
to make it maintainable. all necessary details and get the team
Hexaware provided expertise is following areas: acquainted with the domain, Med
Console & Med Stations applications
Decision on analysis tool to be used
Fill Metrics
Provided metrics report for Med Console5.2 and metrics report for Med Station5.2
The purpose of this phase was to fill in
List of ‘Problem Areas’ with priorities for Med Console5.2 and Med Station5.2
all the metrics identified for Med
Analysis report for Med Console5.2 and Med Station5.2
Console and Med Station source code
Technology Environment Identification & Prioritization of
‘Problem Area’
Console
The purpose of this phase was to
Software: MS Windows 2000 / 2003, Sybase ASA 9.0.1, MS VC++ 6.0
identify ‘problem areas’ depending on
Med station
the metrics and also criticality, business
Software: MS Windows 2000 / 2003, MS VC++ 6.0
use and patient safety criteria
Value Delivered Analysis of ‘Problem Areas’ for
refactoring
Provided recommendations to improve quality and maintainability of the code in The purpose of this phase was to
a phased manner analyze ‘problem areas’ in order to find
whether it could be re-factored to make
it stable
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