SCL provides static analysis software that can help developers and software architects lower the cost of development of complex software applications. Often defects introduced during the development process are discovered much later in the release cycle at the point of Functional Testing, System Testing or User Acceptance Testing, which can add significant cost to the development cost. Even worse, the defect may be shipped in software and devices that are installed on customer sites, with significant associated costs of fixes, patches or recalls. In many cases some defects might never manifest themselves. In the case of code that does not comply with the architectural design rules, the defect may manifest an incremental scope creep over time which manifests itself in higher maintenance and refactoring costs.