CRASH Report 2020:
CAST Research on the Structural Condition of Critical Applications

Sample Report

The fifth CRASH Report produced by CAST on global trends in the structural condition of critical business applications answers questions such as:

• Are off-the shelf applications really off the shelf
• Is application size shrinking with the advent of decoupling and microservices
• Are critical applications getting any more secure
• Is there a correlation between density of flaws and maintenance costs
• Which industries have more structurally sound core applications

The data are drawn from CAST’s Appmarq, the largest repository of software health statistics and risk trends for complex, multi-technology, multi-tier critical business applications from nearly every industry sector, application type and geography. These reports highlight trends in five structural quality characteristics: Robustness, Security, Resource Efficiency, Transferability and Changeability. This report focuses on quality grades that can be used as benchmarks in industry.