Save time and money with a code audit of your software
Leading South African software development company Codehesion is ready to help South African businesses fix their software flaws and inefficiencies.
It offers a comprehensive code audit where it will analyse your existing software to determine where it must be optimised or reworked completely.
Whether your mobile application has a high uninstall rate, or your internal systems are frustrating your employees – Codehesion will help you identify and fix the issues.
“A code audit gives the business a clear, honest picture of where they stand and what it will take to fix it,” said Codehesion founder and CEO Hector Beyers.
What a code audit will uncover
According to Beyers, the biggest issue his team often uncovers in a code audit is what he refers to as “architectural debt.”
This means the system was built without a scalable foundation – no clear separation of concerns, no consistent patterns, and no plan for what will happen when the business grows.
The system works when used at a small scale, but when the company’s needs grow, the software cannot handle these new challenges.
“By the time the business feels the pain, the fix isn’t a patch – it’s a significant rebuild,” said Beyers.
Another major issue a code audit may uncover is gaps in security.
“We regularly find authentication flaws, unencrypted sensitive data, and API endpoints with no proper access control,” said Beyers.
He cited one example where a business had no idea that credit card details were being stored in plain text in a database.
“These are the kind of issues that would make headlines if exploited, and most businesses don’t know they exist because the previous team never tested for them,” said Beyers.
Lastly, Beyers highlighted “invisible inefficiency” – where features work, but take much longer than they should.
“We see huge unmaintainable functions where business logic and application logic are tangled together so badly that even the developer who wrote the code can’t safely make changes,” said Beyers.
In these scenarios, developers are afraid to touch the code because they don’t know what will break if they do.
“The common thread across all of it is the same: an incomplete team built the original system,” said Beyers.
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How Codehesion will help you solve your problems
When a company comes to Codehesion with challenges or “failed” projects, the first thing it looks at is business value.
“A client doesn’t come to us because their codebase is messy, they come because they have a business problem,” said Beyers.
This can take the form of features taking too long to release, customers abandoning a platform, revenue being lost because systems can’t handle the load, or a security vulnerability putting them at legal and reputational risk.
“The audit is structured around business impact. Every issue gets classified as low, medium, or high priority based on how it affects the business – not just how bad the code looks,” said Beyers.
“Security vulnerabilities and the issues directly blocking business value get addressed first. A client who is hemorrhaging customers doesn’t need a perfect refactored codebase; they need the bleeding stopped.”
Then, once the critical issues are stabilised, Codehesion will embark on the deeper work to prevent the same problems from recurring.
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