Source Code Audit Service

Determine if the source code of your current web platform or mobile application can handle your future business needs or if it’s time to upgrade.

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What our source code audit service includes

Our experts dive deep into the frontend and backend source code of web and mobile applications. The code audit service offered by RubyGarage involves the following:

Security issue identification

We pay attention to possible vulnerabilities, loopholes, and security breaches when providing a code audit. Ensure that your app can withstand cross-site scripting (XSS) and other malicious attacks.

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Bottleneck detection

We examine code to detect bottlenecks that decrease the performance of web, backend, and mobile applications. As a result, you get an application that works faster.

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Codebase quality assessment

Our experts check if your code meets the highest standards. We can help make your codebase consistent, maintainable, testable, and reusable. We also check complexity, coupling, and cohesion-related metrics.

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App architecture validation

Our development team will validate your architecture at the library layer, core layer, end-user layer, and orchestration layer. Ensure that your application has impeccable quality with our code audit service.

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DevOps processes audit

We will examine your DevOps processes and deployment scripts. Our experts will also review automation processes. Deploy solutions rapidly, minimize human error, and produce consistent and repeatable results with a detailed code audit.

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Frontend SEO analysis

Our specialists will review your web app’s frontend code to determine if it’s SEO-optimized. We’ll also check the app’s loading speed and look for any frontend rendering and indexing issues. Ensure that your web application achieves its SEO potential.

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When you need our software audit service

A source code audit can be helpful if you need to:

Switch developers

A software audit will help you understand the state of your code. Not all software engineers write clean and well-structured code. Therefore, it’s recommended performing a comprehensive code audit before switching developers within your team to avoid unexpected issues.

Extend app functionality

Our experts will analyze your code and offer solutions to extend your app's functionality. The source code audit report we deliver will help you understand how you can improve your code, develop new features, and ensure they work seamlessly in your application.

Ensure your app is up to date

It’s vital to keep your application up to date. Our experts will analyze your application’s code to ensure it uses the latest libraries and solutions. Our code audit service will also help you discover if your app has received the latest security updates.

Check your app for high-risk areas

Applications that process and store sensitive data should be secured according to the top standards. Our software audit service will help you detect existing and possible vulnerabilities in your application’s source code so you can eliminate them.

Long-term benefits of a source code audit

We will analyze the code of your frontend, backend, and mobile applications and provide a detailed report. This will give you the following long-term benefits:

Improved product quality

Improve the overall quality of your application’s code by getting rid of architectural errors, flaws in business logic, typos, and security breaches with our code audit services.
Reduced expenses

Save money by finding issues early. Avoid the need to rewrite large pieces of code by getting a comprehensive code audit during the initial product development stage.
Higher customer satisfaction

With our code audit service, you can be sure there will be fewer bugs in your application. Consequently, you can expect more satisfied users.
More accurate estimates

Increase the accuracy of estimates with a research-backed code review. Clean code and detected issues will help you establish realistic development time frames.
Improved site ranking

Get a website that has a better search engine ranking by resolving indexing issues. A comprehensive SEO audit is part of our service.
Lower maintenance costs

We will help you make your application’s code clean and well-structured. Consequently, our software audit service will help you spend fewer resources on code maintenance.

Workflow at our code audit company

We combine manual code review with automated tools to find common bugs and vulnerabilities as well as to detect complex underlying problems.

Stage 1. Technology stack identification

At this stage, we list all technologies used in your application and ensure they’re configured correctly. Identifying the technology stack includes:

Analyzing technologies including gems, libraries, deployment tools, and authorization and authentication approaches
Checking tool configurations
Creating a list of technologies used in your product
Forming recommendations from our technical experts on improving the current technology stack

Stage 2. Automated security audit

We detect all vulnerabilities and make your application as unassailable as possible. At this stage, we:

Verify patch levels
Check for vulnerabilities in current libraries
Check for vulnerabilities in source code
Check access to sensitive data and storage

Stage 3. Static code analysis

We use a set of tools to perform static code analysis. During this stage, we:

Detect bottlenecks
Check code quality
Detect code smells
Run autotest quality checks
Check style guides and look for structural similarities

Stage 4. Manual code audit

Our specialists check the source code manually to ensure all aspects are covered. During our manual code audit, we pay attention to:

Common principles of code design (DRY, KISS, YAGNI, SOLID)
Design patterns used
Architectural layers used in addition to MVC
Integrations with third-party services
Database architecture
Tools for proper automated deployment
Data backup mechanisms

Stage 5. SEO audit

Our experts inspect whether your app or site can easily be indexed by search engines. During this stage, we:

Analyze the app’s loading speed
Determine the time required for your app to become interactive
Assess what rendering approach you’re using
Define the rendering approach that best fits your product

Stage 6. Issue prioritization

At this stage, we make a report with detailed information on each issue and suggest ways to fix it. Our report includes:

Issue descriptions with severity levels
Issue impacts on app performance
Descriptions of issue causes
Issue resolution options
Customer assurance to prevent repeated issue occurrence
Benefits after issue resolution

Recent projects that started with a source code audit

When our clients come to us with a ready product and want to improve it, we start with a code review to analyze it and come up with the best solutions.

Box+Dice

A social CRM for real estate agencies

RubyGarage analyzed the existing code base and development approach with our client's in-house team. Based on revealed issues, we suggested changes to the architecture, rearranged the development workflow to ensure the app's security, and made the code base easy to maintain and upgrade.

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Healthcare Marketplace

An online health consultation marketplace

Health Marketplace lets health practitioners and patients receive consultations through video and text chats. During the source code audit, we detected a number of code smells and security vulnerabilities as well as several major problems with the architecture. Our team refactored the code and fixed all critical problems in the application.

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BlueSky

An e-learning platform

Blue Sky is a cloud-based e-learning platform that allows users to deliver live and on-demand education to their customers. We carried out a thorough analysis of the product structure and codebase. Then we transformed the app architecture to make it easy to scale, upgrade, and maintain.

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Cost efficiency

We ensure the code quality is high to minimize your application’s maintenance costs. To do that, we check every line in the source code.

Time efficiency

We run automated checks to speed up the code audit process while ensuring all issues are found. This helps us not waste time performing code audits manually.

Quality

We focus our manual efforts on critical parts of your app to ensure all quality standards are followed and all configurations and integrations are done right.

What our customers say about Code audit as a service

Travis Williams

Box+Dice, CEO

They were professional, responsive and diligent at all times. Specifically, the quality of people and processes enabled this complex accounting project to be a success on all levels. I have no hesitation in recommending RubyGarage for projects that require extra attention to detail and a professional, systematic approach to software development.

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Years of experience

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Successful projects

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Glowing reviews

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Rating on Clutch

Although you don’t need a code audit all the time, there are some cases when you need to check your code quality:

To ensure code quality is sufficient for fast onboarding when you want or need to change development teams

To make sure the existing codebase can handle planned scaling of your app

To get a comprehensive report on risk areas of your app and suggestions on solving issues

To ensure you’re following modern trends and standards
At RubyGarage, we provide a full codebase quality assessment, which involves detecting all bottlenecks and security issues as well as validating the app architecture, checking DevOps processes, and analyzing frontend search engine optimization.
When choosing a vendor for your source code audit, pay attention to the following:

Experience — Both years of experience and number of successfully completed projects

Portfolio — Case studies proving the successful outcome of the services you need

Reviews — What real clients say about a company’s services

Workflow — Defined processes for providing a service to ensure its efficiency