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Saving Lives with High-quality Medical Software Solutions
The medical sector has always had one goal: Improving the lives of people. While this goal throughout history has never changed, the means to do so have - drastically. In today's world, software is an integral part of medical devices and there are few other industries where ensuring the software works as intended is - literally - vital.
Therefore, the medical device industry has some of the strictest standards and guidelines (e.g IEC 62304) which need to be met. At the same time you need to make sure your software can easily be adapted to new requirements. Our analysis and testing tools help you do both.
Keep Your Software Alive with Architecture Verification
Medical devices can have long product life-cycles and will require software updates and new features to ensure that they always meet the high standards. This can be achieved best by understanding your software architecture and knowing how changes will affect your software.
Software Architects, project leaders and developers can all benefit from knowing how the various components of a software interact with each other. You could compare this in-depth understanding of your code with a patient's anamnesis: it allows you to make informed decisions and ensures better code quality.
Our architecture verification tool not only helps you visualize your software, it also performs automated verification checks, which immediately flag if modifications to the code deviate from the software architecture. This can be especially important if you want to make sure the changes do not violate security related attributes you defined in the architecture.
Automated Software Check-ups Catch Issues at an Early Stage
In medicine, the earlier a disease is diagnosed, the better it can be treated. The same is true for your software. The earlier you find bugs and identify violations of coding guidelines or regulations, the easier and cheaper it is to fix these issues and avoid them causing further damage - technical debt or software erosion - in your code.
By performing daily, automated code health check-ups you can ensure your code remains maintainable and secure. It also leads to better results during testing as potential runtime errors have already been resolved. So you not only have have high-quality code and can confirm that you comply with industry standards, you also reduce your development costs and increase your ROI.
Learn more about Static Code Analysis
Saving Lives with a Touch of a Button
Medical devices require complex software, but have to be easy to use. This means the UI has to be unambiguous and perform reliably - even when things get hectic. Ensuring this is part of the quality assurance process. It involves screens, controls, menus, buttons, icons, and so on all being assessed as part of the graphical user interface (GUI) testing to ensure the final product performs as expected.
Automating GUI testing helps keeping up with the growing complexity of medical software devices and has become the standard as part of the agile software development processes. The advantages include shorter testing cycles, better test coverage, and discovering potential bugs in the early stages of development. By combining automated GUI testing with Behavior-Driven Development (BDD), you can easily bring together technical and business project stakeholders to create high-quality products for the medical market.
“Thanks to the Axivion Suite, we have the maintainability of our software under control, thereby safeguarding our long-term capacity for innovation.”
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“I can program in Python and even import my own libraries in the tests. That’s where it’s handy.”
“The Axivion Suite provides us with vital support in ensuring our software quality. Its checks are not merely driven by existing standards, they even exceed the required level.”
