CAST (company)

CAST is a technology corporation, with headquarters in New York City and in France, near Paris. The firm markets software intelligence with a technology based on semantic analysis of software source code and components. It provides information and size (automated function points counting) measurement technology and expertise, and offers software, hosting and consulting services in support software analysis and measurement. The company was founded in 1990 in Paris, France, by Vincent Delaroche.

CAST
TypePublic
NYSE Euronext Paris CAS. ISIN
FR0000072894
IndustryComputer software IT service management Information technology consulting
FoundedParis, France. November 1990
FounderVincent Delaroche
HeadquartersEU Hqs: Meudon near Paris
US Hqs: New York City
Key people
Vincent Delaroche, Chairman and CEO,
Bill Curtis, Chief Scientist,
Ernie Hu, Chief Operating Officer
ProductsCAST Application Intelligence Platform
CAST Highlight
Appmarq
Revenue$45 million USD (2019)
Number of employees
380 (2019)
Websitewww.castsoftware.com
CAST's headquarters in Meudon, near Paris

Its code quality metrics are used in application development service-level agreements, and the firm offers consultation on issues having to do with development quality and security: [1] [2] [3][4][5]

History

CAST was founded in 1990 in Paris by Vincent Delaroche. In 1996 it shipped its first software product based on semantic analysis of Transact-SQL. CAST Application Intelligence Platform, was first launched in 2004, initially introducing software quality measurement. In 2017, CAST Highlight is launched as a SaaS product scanning portfolio of software to provide metrics on health, cloud migration capabilities, and Open-source license risks. Early 2019, based on the same analysis technology, the firm launches CAST Imaging, a product representing graphically source-code components of a software.

In 2012, the firm announced support for the Object Management Group (OMG) Automated Function Point (AFP) Standard,[6] one way of measuring application development productivity.

The firm's leadership includes Bill Curtis, who developed the Capability Maturity Model at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) in the early 1990s and then the Consortium for IT Software Quality (CISQ). CAST's head of product development, Olivier Bonsignour, co-wrote a book with Capers Jones.[7]

Research

The firm's Research Labs subsidiary developed a repository of industry data and issues a biennial report called CAST Research on Application Software Health (CRASH). CRASH data has been cited and published in articles in IEEE Software and researches.[8] Its Labs was active in analyzing the phenomenon of technical debt, co-hosting a research forum on this topic with University of Maryland’s department of information systems.[9][10]

It focused on analyzing applications instead of technology layers and as a consequence, most of the research had been conducted in the domain of inter- and intra-technology dependency analysis.[11]

The firm was recognized by Oseo in 2009 and awarded the "Innovative Company" label.[12] This recognition was renewed in 2012 through another project aiming at identifying the possible resource leaks that can contribute to application performance decrease or application crashes, at the application level across the layers and without requiring the actual execution of the application as is usually the case in dynamic program analysis.

References
  1. "Source of American Airlines computer glitch yet to be disclosed". Los Angeles Times. April 22, 2013.
  2. "Why banks are likely to face more software glitches in 2013". BBC News. February 1, 2013.
  3. "AP Twitter hack causes panic on Wall Street and sends Dow plunging". CNBC. April 23, 2013.
  4. "American Airlines Outage Likely Caused by Software Quality Issues". The Wall Street Journal. April 18, 2013.
  5. "British banks Really Bad Systems". The Economist. June 30, 2012.
  6. "OMG Adopts Automated Function Point Specification, January 17, 2013". Archived from the original on 2013-05-09. Retrieved 2013-06-23.
  7. Jones, Capers; Bonsignour, Olivier (2011). The Economics of Software Quality. Addison-Wesley. ISBN 978-0-132-58220-9.
  8. Plösch, Reinhold; Bräuer, Johannes; Saft, Matthias; Körner, Christian (May 2018). "Design Debt Prioritization: A Design Best Practice-Based Approach". 2018 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Technical Debt (TechDebt). IEEE. doi:10.1145/3194164.3194172. ISBN 978-1-4503-5713-5. S2CID 50772086.
  9. "Java apps have most flaws, Cobol apps the least, study finds". Computer World. December 8, 2011.
  10. "Bad code plagues business applications, especially Java ones". ars technica. December 8, 2011.
  11. Ernst, N. A.; Bellomo, S.; Ozkaya, I.; Nord, R. L. (April 2017). "What to Fix? Distinguishing between design and non-design rules in automated tools". 2017 IEEE International Conference on Software Architecture (ICSA). IEEE: 165–168. arXiv:1705.11087. doi:10.1109/ICSA.2017.25. ISBN 978-1-5090-5729-0. S2CID 27116442.
  12. "Label anvar entreprise innovante : Bpifrance.fr - Bpifrance". Oseo.fr. Retrieved 2014-01-05.
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