System renovation

In 1976, Belady and Lehman 'laws of of software evolution' stated that, a software lifecycle will be continuously modified, and its unstructuredness and entropy will increase with time, unless system renovation is done to improve the system’s structure, and make it more comprehensible, extensible and reusable. The initial phase of these renovation - and probably the most difficult - is a description of the global structure of a software, and an inventory of its technical dependencies and connections to other systems and data sources. Moreover, this investigation phase must be continuously done on development platforms, during reengineering works, to ensure that extra and undesired dependencies and components are not added to a system already over-burdened.
Primhill Computers'tool Survol provides a completely safe - but deeply intrusive - analysis of running systems and their environments, allowing to have an exact understanding of the overall impact of a system and its possible side-effects with other applications.