We provide software testing tools that identify the weaknesses in your systems, allowing you to determine what risk they pose to your business.

Like most financial services organisations, you're probably taking steps to comply with evolving regulation such as the Basel II Capital Accord, Solvency II or the proposed International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). Such regulation aims to protect the interests of customers and companies alike by minimising risk.

Critical to the successful operation of every single financial services organisation is the integrity and accuracy of its software systems. Yet ironically, the creation of applications on which your entire business functions is completely unregulated. Programmers are simply not required to write and test software to any set standard.

The potential consequences of such a fundamental flaw are significant. Whilst errors in the heart of your software may interrupt operations through system failure and costly downtime, the real threats to your business include security risk, breach of compliance, indemnity exposure and can ultimately severely damage your reputation.

The obvious remedy to error is testing. Thorough testing of your applications significantly shortens implementation times, reduces the need for patches and minimises your reliance on maintenance and support.

Although you may realise the importance of testing, the pressures of your software development schedules rarely allow sufficient time for it. Often executed as a last-minute exercise, testing takes the form of acceptance tests that fails to verify whether the code on which it is based is stable and accurate.

Not so with LDRA. We provide a suite of software testing tools that allows your developers, testers and project managers to execute appropriate levels of analysis to check the integrity and accuracy of your software applications.