Maintaining or modernizing legacy codebases is a tedious, error-prone process. The Crowdbotics platform uses AI to help you speed through the hardest part – reverse engineering requirements and technical specifications from your code.
The Crowdbotics platform leverages an advanced processing pipeline, built around Azure OpenAI, to reverse engineer high-quality, comprehensive business requirements from your legacy codebase.
Additionally, the platform generates valuable technical documentation, helping you navigate your codebase.
Tools for inspecting legacy codebases have been around for a while. These tools can help you understand how the code is organized and highlight security vulnerabilities.
In short, they help you understand HOW the code works. These tools, however, won’t help you understand WHAT the code is supposed to do and WHY it was created in the first place. In order to maintain or modernize an existing codebase, you must be able to answer the what and why questions.
Without understanding the business requirements, you’ll never know if the updated code works as intended. The technical documentation provides a roadmap, but the business requirements give you the actual destination.
Typically, modernization projects are staffed by huge teams that manually scan through the code line-by-line. This approach is laborious, expensive, time intensive and fraught with inaccuracies. Most projects take months, and some, years.
The incredible intelligence of LLMs are a game changer when it comes to processing legacy code. However, on their own, LLMs can only process small batches of code at a time. Crowdbotics’ innovation is a complex pipeline of abstraction and summarization on top of the LLM’s processing. This approach enables the efficient processing of millions of lines of code with 80% or better accuracy.
The Crowdbotics platform uses AI to reverse engineer business requirements and essential technical artifacts from your legacy code. The business requirements are presented in a Product Requirements Document (aka PRD). This data is organized into epics, features, user stories and acceptance criteria, giving you a complete picture of your code’s “why”.
In addition to a PRD, the Crowdbotics platform also generates C4 diagrams that help you visualize your application’s architecture. It also generates entity relationship diagrams, showing dependencies between code and components. Finally, the platform generates file maps to help understand how the code repository is organized.
These core technical artifacts, along with the business requirements found in the PRD, provide the critical foundation required to ensure a successful strategic app modern project.
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