Case Study: Mitchell International reduces boilerplate code with PostSharp

Mitchell International - Customer Case Study

Mitchell International, a leading North American provider of property & casualty claims management solutions, faced a significant challenge in minimizing code repetition while developing a new suite of .NET applications that needed to integrate with a legacy system. Their development team sought to avoid writing vast amounts of boilerplate code for tasks like data transfer and logging. They chose to implement PostSharp to address this complexity.

Using PostSharp, the team built and injected custom aspects to handle cross-cutting concerns like exception handling, logging, and data synchronization between applications. This solution from PostSharp dramatically reduced development time and effort, saving the team from writing tens of thousands of lines of code. The results included more readable and maintainable code, a significant decrease in software defects, and the elimination of the need for developers to manually write exception handlers or logging lines.

Mitchell International

Kshitij Deshmukh Rensfield

Software Development Manager