{"id":860824,"date":"2026-05-22T13:57:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T11:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=860824"},"modified":"2026-05-22T13:57:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T11:57:40","slug":"save-time-and-money-with-a-code-audit-of-your-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/industry-news\/860824\/save-time-and-money-with-a-code-audit-of-your-software\/","title":{"rendered":"Save time and money with a code audit of your software"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Leading South African software development company Codehesion<\/strong><\/a> is ready to help South African businesses fix their software flaws and inefficiencies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It offers a comprehensive code audit where it will analyse your existing software to determine where it must be optimised or reworked completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whether your mobile application has a high uninstall rate, or your internal systems are frustrating your employees \u2013 Codehesion will help you identify and fix the issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA code audit gives the business a clear, honest picture of where they stand and what it will take to fix it,\u201d said Codehesion founder and CEO Hector Beyers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What a code audit will uncover<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

According to Beyers, the biggest issue his team often uncovers in a code audit is what he refers to as \u201carchitectural debt.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This means the system was built without a scalable foundation \u2013 no clear separation of concerns, no consistent patterns, and no plan for what will happen when the business grows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The system works when used at a small scale, but when the company\u2019s needs grow, the software cannot handle these new challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBy the time the business feels the pain, the fix isn\u2019t a patch \u2013 it\u2019s a significant rebuild,\u201d said Beyers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another major issue a code audit may uncover is gaps in security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe regularly find authentication flaws, unencrypted sensitive data, and API endpoints with no proper access control,\u201d said Beyers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He cited one example where a business had no idea that credit card details were being stored in plain text in a database.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThese are the kind of issues that would make headlines if exploited, and most businesses don\u2019t know they exist because the previous team never tested for them,\u201d said Beyers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lastly, Beyers highlighted \u201cinvisible inefficiency\u201d \u2013 where features work, but take much longer than they should.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe 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,\u201d said Beyers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In these scenarios, developers are afraid to touch the code because they don\u2019t know what will break if they do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe common thread across all of it is the same: an incomplete team built the original system,\u201d said Beyers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To book a risk-free consultation, complete the form below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n