The constant innovation of the digital transformation era demands far greater agility from companies when it comes to building solutions.

Low-code emerged precisely to streamline the application development process.

In that context, continuous quality monitoring is essential — and to deliver this kind of automation, the market-leading platform offers Mendix AQM for real-time quality and performance management.

However, delivering an efficient low-code tool that meets rigorous corporate security standards takes more than just a skilled team.

With the right monitoring in place, you can avoid rework, prevent unexpected bugs, and boost productivity, among other benefits.

After all, delivering a complete, efficient tool in less time becomes an important competitive advantage for the organization.

In this article, we’ll explore the effectiveness of the monitoring tools that ensure the quality and security of low-code solutions built on the platform.

Read on to the end.

How is the quality of Mendix applications monitored?

Mendix AQM (Application Quality Monitor) provides a dashboard with an instant view of the quality of the low-code application models you’re developing.

A deep analysis verifies whether the application meets the standard defined by the international ISO 25010 norm, which evaluates the following aspects of a software product:

  • Reliability;
  • Security;
  • Functionality;
  • Efficiency;
  • Usability;
  • Portability;
  • Maintainability.

In addition, Mendix AQM uses the SIG/TÜViT evaluation criteria, which measure internal maintainability quality and its sub-characteristics: analyzability, modifiability, testability, modularity, and reusability.

This analysis focuses on the source code of a software product, not on how the product behaves in a test or production environment.

In other words, these two sets of criteria together provide a comprehensive view of the application’s functionality and quality — both external and internal.

And because Mendix AQM monitoring runs daily and continuously, developers can improve maintainability and reduce lifecycle costs.

What monitoring capabilities does Mendix AQM offer?

Mendix provides a range of out-of-the-box monitoring solutions to support development teams. Trend charts and alerts are available for all application types.

Real-time tracking and debugging make it possible to diagnose issues quickly as they arise during development.

This experience is delivered through the following tools:

  • Trap: continuously records all monitoring levels and stores them when an error occurs;
  • Statistics: identifies trends by gathering statistics on application performance;
  • Performance: analyzes individual functions and shows where improvement is possible;
  • Measurement: monitors CPU and memory, runs measurement queries, and raises alerts when a threshold is exceeded.

How does the Mendix AQM quality rating work?

Mendix application models were mapped by SIG experts to the ISO/IEC 25010:2011 standard for software quality.

The AQM solution measures the key aspects of application maintainability against a set of parameters and benchmarks your application against a database of thousands of projects on a scale of one to five.

This rating provides a quality indicator for your application model and shows how much effort and cost you can expect for future changes to the initial model.

A higher rating means the model can be changed more easily compared to models with a lower rating.

What are the benefits of automated quality monitoring?

Problem resolution time grows exponentially as source code quality declines.

The application becomes less secure and more labor-intensive, which in turn drives up costs and delays development.

With the monitoring, real-time performance tracking, and integrated automated testing that the Mendix platform provides, you can continuously verify that the application meets international standards and detect issues the moment they appear.

That means you can instantly fix errors that could compromise the solution’s efficiency and functionality — all while avoiding rework and preventing potential delivery delays.

What’s more, with effectiveness validated through integrated testing, your team can focus on improving the solution instead of spending productive time just fixing bugs.

In short, the company starts delivering complete, efficient applications with a high level of enterprise security in far less time — a significant competitive advantage.

The Mendix platform has everything you need to ensure agile development. Want to learn more about what this tool can do? Talk to our experts.