The CAST Application Mining Suite spells out the internal structure of IT applications, giving developers far greater understanding and reactivity to changes. Like data mining helps business managers make better decisions, application mining helps developers improve application programming and maintenance, explains Pat Fitzgerald, MD of EasiRun, the local distributor of CAST software.
Developers often fail to document the software development process due to time constraints.
Fitzgerald says that a feature embedded in the technology, CAST Analyzers, behaves like an army of additional developers that join the IT team to read and understand the code of the application, thousands of times faster than humans could do. In addition, CAST Analyzers automatically populate the CAST Application Warehouse, a single centralised Microsoft SQL Database. The warehouse signifies the complete opposite of error-prone manual updates of traditional repositories.