Code Review Service
Comprehensive, risk-free code audit services for businesses seeking to enhance the quality of their software products. Whether you're adding new features, optimizing performance, or making changes to an existing codebase, we check if your code is secure, efficient, and scalable. By identifying potential risks, we help you make informed tech decisions to drive your business forward with confidence.
Get a project estimateWhat You Can Achieve With a Code Audit Service
To deliver these results, our source code review services are built on a proven methodology and over 20 years of technical expertise.
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Stronger Security
Every software has vulnerabilities, but a code audit helps you find and fix them before they turn into major security risks. Whether it’s spotting potential weaknesses like SQL injections or improving data encryption, you’ll sleep better knowing your software is protected.
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Better Performance
Nobody likes slow or laggy software. A code audit can identify the areas where your code is dragging its feet and help you optimize it. The result? Faster, more responsive software that handles growth like a champ.
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Cut Down On Technical Debt
Over time, quick fixes and workarounds can pile up, making your code harder to manage. A code audit highlights those messy spots so you can clean them up, making your code easier to maintain and saving you headaches in the future.
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Stay Compliant
Whether you need to follow industry regulations like GDPR or coding standards, a code audit makes sure you’re on the right track. This is especially important if your software handles sensitive data—getting it right can save you from a world of trouble.
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Make Smarter Decisions
Should you keep maintaining your current code, refactor it, or rebuild it from scratch? An audit gives you the insights you need to make those tough decisions with confidence. You’ll know exactly where you stand and where to focus your resources.
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Long-Term Stability
After a code audit, your software will be better positioned to grow and evolve with your business. You’ll have a stronger, more stable foundation to build on, ensuring your product can handle whatever the future throws at it.
When You Need a Code Review
Software audit is not just a routine check – it’s a critical step toward the health, security, and performance of your codebase. Here are specific scenarios where a code audit becomes essential:dash
Strategic Decisions
When deciding whether to maintain, refactor, or rebuild your code, an audit gives you the technical insight needed to choose the best path forward.
Security Concerns
If your software handles sensitive data or needs to comply with regulations like GDPR or HIPAA, a code audit helps identify vulnerabilities such as SQL injections, XSS, and weak access controls.
Technical Debt
When fast development has led to accumulated technical debt, an audit highlights areas for refactoring and improved maintainability, reducing long-term risks.
Performance Issues
If your software is slow or struggling with scalability, a code audit uncovers performance bottlenecks, inefficient algorithms, and resource-heavy operations.
System or Team Changes
Preparing for major updates or onboarding new developers? An audit ensures your codebase is clean and maintainable, making transitions smoother.
Regulatory Compliance
Industries like finance, healthcare, or e-commerce must meet strict standards (e.g., PCI-DSS, GDPR). A code audit verifies your software is compliant.
Regular Maintenance
If it’s been more than a year since your last audit, it’s time for a check-up to ensure your code remains secure and up to date.
What We Evaluate within Code Audit Services
Our code review service is a comprehensive assessment of your software system that combines powerful automation with expert manual review. We analyze your code from multiple angles to guarantee its security, quality, and efficiency.
Using industry-leading code audit tools, we perform static code analysis to quickly identify critical vulnerabilities:
- Encryption flaws (weak algorithms or improper implementation).
- SQL injection and other injection attacks.
- XSS (cross-site scripting).
- Buffer overflows.
- Race conditions in concurrent operations.
Our expert penetration testers manually review code sections that are most often the source of issues:
- Logging and auditing mechanisms.
- Input validation.
- Session management and authentication.
- Connection security (API, connection strings).
- Serialization and deserialization.
- Exception and error handling.
- Thread safety (multithreaded security).
Beyond security, we evaluate the overall quality, readability, and maintainability of the code. We analyze:
- Clarity and consistency in naming variables and methods.
- The presence of comments and documentation.
- Proper code organization and structure.
- Use of linters and quality analyzers.
- Version control and team collaboration standards.
- Exception handling and fault tolerance.
- Code portability across platforms.
- Adherence to industry standards and best practices.
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Over 20 years, our team of 100+ experts has delivered hundreds of code audits.
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Types of Code Audits We Offer
We tailor the audit to your specific needs and goals, offering clear code review packages:
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Security Audit
We identify cyber risks and vulnerabilities according to OWASP Top 10 standards to ensure your software is protected from both external and internal attacks.
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Performance and Scalability Audit
We check processing speed, algorithm efficiency, and your system's readiness for growth and handling increased loads.
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Legacy Code Audit / Modernization
We assess legacy code, identify technical debt, and propose modernization paths to simplify future maintenance and development.
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Pre M&A Due Diligence Audit
A detailed third party code review prior to investment, acquisition, or merger, providing investors with an unbiased, comprehensive technical snapshot of the product's health.
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Compliance Standards Audit
Specialized audits for fintech, healthcare, and legal solutions to ensure adherence to industry-specific norms and regulations.
Code Review Process
Contact Us to Request a Code Audit
Tell us about your project and what you’re looking to achieve with a code audit – security, performance, or compliance improvements.
Provide Access to Your Code Repository
Grant us access to your codebase and any necessary documentation to ensure we understand your system fully.
Audit Process (3-5 days)
We’ll perform a comprehensive code analysis, including static code analysis, security checks, performance assessments, and code quality reviews using a combination of automated tools and manual inspection.
Receive a Detailed Report
Once the code audit is complete, we’ll provide you with a thorough report outlining the findings from our analysis. This report will give you a clear understanding of your code’s health, along with the next steps to improve and optimize it.
Code Review Service Checklist
We begin with a full source code review: we identify the core technologies, frameworks, and libraries, analyze the overall code volume, and define the key functionalities to be reviewed. At this stage, we generate general statistics on the identified issues, provide recommendations, and pinpoint critical deficiencies that require the most immediate attention.
We calculate and interpret key code quality metrics that provide an objective picture of its health. These include:
- Assess how easy the code will be to modify and extend.
- Measure the complexity of algorithms and program logic.
- Analyze the architectural complexity and dependencies between components.
Our architects evaluate the overall solution structure: how the system's core is built, how modules interact, and whether fundamental principles and design patterns were correctly applied. We check:
- Adherence to the chosen architectural model.
- Whether the code complies with Object-Oriented Analysis and Design and SOLID principles.
- Whether the code is clean, modular, and easy to test.
We analyze the code responsible for the user interface from the standpoint of quality and platform standards compliance. For mobile applications, this includes:
- Verification of compliance with iOS guidelines (HIG) and Material Design for Android.
- Identification of violations that could prevent publication on the App Store or Google Play.
- Analysis of the efficiency, fidelity to layouts, and adaptability of UI components.
Quality tests are a guarantee of stability. We meticulously check:
- The presence and quality of unit and integration tests.
- The level of code coverage and its adequacy.
- Test effectiveness: whether they check edge cases and error scenarios, and if they are readable and fast.
- Whether up-to-date and effective testing frameworks are used.
At this stage, a list of problems of varying criticality levels is compiled. This includes:
- Overly complex methods.
- Hard-coded values.
- Unused variables or methods.
- Logic duplication.
- Lack of comments and documentation.
- Insufficient code structure.
In the final report, we provide specific advice on how to improve the code: what should be fixed first, which changes can wait, and the estimated time required for implementation. This helps form a clear roadmap for the development team.
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What’s In the Code Review Report?
The final deliverable of our source code review services is a comprehensive report. This document translates our technical findings into a clear, actionable plan. Here’s what you’ll find inside:
Summary of Findings
A high-level overview of the most critical issues discovered during the audit, giving you a quick snapshot of your code’s health.
Security Vulnerabilities
A detailed list of security flaws, from common risks like SQL injections to more subtle issues such as improper access control, and risk assessments for each.
Code Quality Issues
Insights into the maintainability of your codebase, including any violations of coding standards, code duplication, or areas that require refactoring.
Performance Bottlenecks
An analysis of inefficient code, memory usage, or database queries that might be slowing down your application.
Compliance Gaps
If applicable, the report will highlight areas where your code is not meeting industry standards or regulatory requirements, such as GDPR or HIPAA.
Actionable Recommendations
Clear and specific advice on addressing each issue, including priority levels and suggested changes or refactoring strategies.
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Code Audit Is Not the
Following
Peer code review
This is not the kind of code review when teammates examine each other’s pieces of code and provide comments pointing out individual errors. Our code audit service is aimed at detecting large-scale system problems in your software.
Debugging
Within a source code audit, we do a technical audit of your project, identify the problems, and give advice on resolving them. To catch specific bugs and make fixes in the code, you need our software development services.
Code Review Services vs. Architecture Assessment
Both code audit and architecture assessment are essential for maintaining high-quality software, but they focus on different aspects of your project:
Code Audit
- Focuses on the quality and security of the code itself
- Identifies security vulnerabilities, inefficiencies, and technical debt
- Ensures compliance with coding standards and regulations
- Aims to improve code maintainability and long-term stability
Architecture Assessment
- Examines the overall structure and design of your software system
- Evaluates scalability, flexibility, and performance
- Assesses alignment with best practices and business goals
- Ensures your system can handle growth and adapt to new features
Case Studies
Anadea is a trusted code review company. Over the past 20+ years, we’ve built a team of 100+ technical experts, ready to dedicate their skills to your success. Here are a few examples of how our software code audit services made a real difference:
TaskTag is a chat-oriented platform for construction professionals, unifying communication, task management, and project tracking in one digital workspace. What we did:
- Built 686 manual test cases covering critical user scenarios.
- Implemented 582 automated tests, achieving 80% coverage for web and 93% coverage for mobile apps.
- Conducted a detailed security audit, identifying and remediating vulnerabilities to strengthen user data protection.
- Streamlined reporting and team collaboration, reducing developer debugging time and accelerating fixes.
Our code quality audit of the client’s iOS and Android apps revealed critical architectural and performance issues affecting stability and scalability. What we did:
- Performed a thorough technical audit of both native apps, identifying inefficiencies, unstable architecture, and high maintenance risks.
- Recommended and executed a full rewrite in Flutter, preserving all core functionality.
- Unified Flutter codebase reduced future development costs by up to 40%.
- Reviewed and improved offline data handling, real-time sync, and key mobile workflows.
- Assessed security and integration with existing web APIs to ensure smooth operations.
Report-Writing Apps on Android and iOS
A client needed a thorough code auditing of their native Android and iOS apps used for report writing. They were concerned about security, performance, and resource management.
What we did:
- Performed a full security code audit to identify vulnerabilities, eliminating over 15 critical security issues.
- Detected memory leaks and performance bottlenecks
- Evaluated resource usage and app efficiency
- Recommended a shift to Flutter for better scalability and easier maintenance, reducing future development time by 20-30%.
Cross-Platform Service Management App
The client requested a code review as a service for a management app built using the UNO framework, focused on improving code structure and following best practices.
What we did:
- Assessed overall code structure and clarity
- Reviewed usage of design patterns to ensure best practices
- Evaluated the completeness of testing coverage, increasing code coverage from 60% to 85%.
- Suggested improvements for code maintainability and refactoring opportunities
Web Shop App
The client wanted a code audit of their web shop app to evaluate the technology stack, code quality, and performance scalability as they planned for future growth.
What we did:
- Analyzed the app architecture and tech stack for scalability, improving server response time by 40%
- Identified security vulnerabilities within the code
- Evaluated performance issues and provided optimization suggestions
- Improved deployment processes for smoother project setup and developer onboarding
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Engagement Models
Outsourcing
Team augmentation
For businesses that want hands-off software code audit services, we take full control of the process. This option lets you focus on your core activities while we make sure your code is optimized and secure.
- We handle the full audit process
- Reduce costs by using our efficient methods
- Access our specialized code audit expertise
- Focus on your core business while we take care of the rest
If you need extra support but want to stay hands-on, our team augmentation model is the right fit. We work alongside your existing developers, giving you the flexibility to scale as needed.
- Scale resources up or down as needed
- Quickly onboard specialized code audit professionals
- Maintain full control of the project
- Improve your team’s skills through close collaboration
Technology Expertise
Related Services
In addition to our code audit services, we offer a variety of related services for businesses aimed to achieve top results in their field:
If the audit uncovers significant issues, we can step in to fix them. Our custom software development service checks whether your code is refactored, optimized, and follows best practices, setting your project up for long-term success.
Our QA services include creating detailed test cases and test plans to thoroughly assess your software. We make sure that your application not only performs well but is also free of bugs and meets all quality standards through rigorous testing.
For deeper security validation, our penetration testing service simulates real-world attacks to expose any vulnerabilities. This service ensures your software is fortified against potential security threats.
After the code audit, we offer IT consulting to guide you on the next steps. Whether it’s about improving your current system or selecting the right technologies for future growth, our experts provide clear, informed advice.
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