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Quality Assurance for Source Code Escrow Agreements

A software escrow agreement delivers legal protection for licensed software applications. There are many benefits to a software escrow agreement, including providing protection against vendor failure. In the event of vendor failure, the software vendor’s proprietary source code or other intellectual property may be released to a beneficiary to support licensed software. However, simply having an escrow agreement does not guarantee that the source code is complete, accurate, or functional.

At PRAXIS Technology Escrow, we provide a variety of software quality assurance services beyond our software escrow, source code escrow, and SaaS escrow services. Our quality assurance services aim to provide beneficiaries with the peace of mind that comes from gaining qualitative insight into their escrow deposit materials. Additionally, our quality assurance services make sure the escrow materials are complete, accurate, and functional.

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Quality Assurance for Source Code Escrow: Technical Verification

PRAXIS provides “simulated release” Technical Verification services to replicate the position of a beneficiary following a release of the escrow deposit materials. The goal of this technology services project is, to the greatest extent possible, replicate the software or SaaS application. This relies solely upon the escrow deposit materials and associated instructions. In many cases, even well-meaning software companies struggle to submit a complete, accurate, and functional escrow deposits because of the following reasons:
  • Source code is often made up of millions of lines of human written source code
  • Source code may have errors
  • Build instructions are often outdated, flawed, or nonexistent
  • A build may take 24, 36 or more hours to complete
  • Hardware requirements may be complex
  • Multiple third party softwares may be necessary

What are the Steps to Implement a Technical Verification?

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Beneficiary requests Technical Verification services
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Depositor completes a Technical Verification questionnaire
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Technical Verification commences
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Summary of findings reported
While these steps do not guarantee functionality, they do often find obvious shortfalls in escrow deposits. A DME report provides a pass or fail status on these criteria and a file listing. DME’s are performed by qualified software engineers upon request up to four times annually.

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