XTRAN, LLC Services — Menu
- Software Assessment, Transformation, and Translation Services
- XTRAN Training Services
- General Consulting Services
- Expert Witness and Forensic Services
Software Assessment, Transformation, and Translation Services
In addition to software assessment / analysis, transformation / re-engineering, generation, and translation tools, we also offer expertise, on a consulting basis, in assessing and transforming software, and in porting it to new platforms, especially targeting *nix variants, Windows, and VMS, and especially using XTRAN, our software meta-tool, which marries compiler and expert system technologies to provide rule-driven automation of the assessment / analysis, transformation / re-engineering, generation, and translation of assemblers, 3GLs, 4GLs, XML, HTML, and proprietary, scripting, Web, data base, and special-purpose languages, as well as data and text.
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about our
current consulting rates and availability.
XTRAN Training Services
We offer training in the use of XTRAN; in fact, such training is required in order to license XTRAN.
XTRAN training typically comprises five days on-site, and covers all activities XTRAN can automate — code analysis, re-engineering, generation, and translation. Any competent senior software developer can be trained to use XTRAN, including its rules language.
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current
XTRAN training rates and availability.
General Consulting Services
We also offer general consulting services. Our Principal
Consultant is
Stephen F. Heffner, President and founder
of XTRAN, LLC, who has been
an independent systems consultant since 1972. Click
for
Mr. Heffner's résumé,
for
his Curriculum Vitæ, and
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his 
profile.
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current consulting rates and availability.
Expert Witness and Forensic Services
Expert Witness Services
Stephen F. Heffner, our founder and President, is an Expert Witness with report, deposition, and court testimony experience. Mr. Heffner provides expertise in the following fields:
- Enterprise Architecture
- Software architecture, design, and implementation
- Data Architecture; data base design and implementation
- Software development and engineering, including its automation
- Software development management
- Forensic analysis of computer languages, data, and text
- Real-time and embedded development
- Intellectual Property issues involving computer software
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Mr. Heffner's Expert Witness rates and availability.
Automation of Forensic Analysis (Code / Data / Text)
XTRAN, our expert
system, can be used to automate
the forensic analysis of a broad range
of computer
languages 
, data,
and text. This includes issues such as:
- Code copying, plagiarism, and other Intellectual Property issues
- Code quality and defects
- Contractual fulfillment and conformance
- Code security
- Text plagiarism, forgery, and common authorship
- Forensically interesting patterns in data and text
Mr. Heffner has used XTRAN to automate forensic analysis in the course of his Expert Witness work.
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applying XTRAN to automate forensic analysis.