Software Development Process

The pace of technological advancement and digitization has created revolution in software development. In modern world software plays a vital role in operation and growth of business and companies. Software is used to communicate worldwide and to operate some of the most complex machines. OTT and other  digital platforms have brought people around the world together and ease in sharing information. Social networking  has become an integral part of life. With the development of E-commerce people experienced an innovative model of business. Software enables empowering business through digitization and cater service to large number of clients.

Our software development highlights

Using Agile methodologies

Agile Methodology promotes continuous iteration of requirement gathering, development and testing throughout the software development lifecycle of the project. Agile completely removes the rigidity of Waterfall.

Skilled professionals

We rely on experience to deliver the best. Trying to acquire skilled professionals is itself a challenge. We want to go out of our comfort zone to make sure that a team has enough experienced people to make it work for our clients.

Quality Assurance

Quality assurance works hand in hand with our software Quality control. While QA makes sure thats quality level is achieved according to the requirement, QC takes the responsibility of fulfilling the requested Quality. We try to stay close to the requirements without compromising the standard.

Project Management

Project management ensures clear communication in order to align with the requirements from clients at best. Project management coordinates work processes during implementation and coordinates between the stakeholders to smoothen the entire development and delivery process.

Timely Delivery

Defining and prioritizing the tasks is essential for timely delivery. We follow scrum to make a close estimation, which leaves enough air to ensure quality. Moreover, keeping the delivery cycles short, secures a quick feedback from the client, in order to cross check the positioning of requirements.

Customer support

We believe that customer support is essential to client's satisfaction. We aim to provide support and assistance in order to prioritize, manage, respond, resolve and to revise customer requirements and requests.

Software development steps

Planning & Requirement gathering

We believe that Requirement gathering is the most important step of the entire process, as mistakes at this step can cost in huge wastage. Requirement gathering demands lots of communication to remove gaps in the understanding and to bring both the parties on the same page. We take this stage really carefully. 

UI/UX designing

If the application requires a GUI, once the initial requirement gathering phase is over, we start in multiple iterations UI/UX designing. UI/UX designing continues to clarify User flow and experience through user flow diagram and Wire frames from Low Fidelity to High Fidelity. UI/UX creation cycle stabilizes when the client is provided with a clickable prototype. UI/UX design phase considered to end when all the major features are designed and approved by the client through clickable prototype.

Architecture and Data flow

According to Martin Fowler  “A good architecture is important, otherwise it becomes slower and more expensive to add new capabilities in the future.” A good architecture doesn’t only take care of immediate delivery instead it makes sure that future changes can be easily incorporated in the system. Architecture defines different components of a software, their relationship and their interaction with each other. This is a very critical milestone of the software development lifecycle, getting it right in the beginning or through impediment tickets is of major importance.

Development using Agile & Scrum

We highly recommend using Agile methodologies in order to work better in distributed environment, to create transparency and flow during the implementation process. Also to better estimate and ensure timely delivery. Agile is an iterative approach to software development where requirements are broken into smaller tasks those are accomplished in a number of  sprints. Each sprint may involve planning, requirement analysis, design, coding, testing and deployment. After the deployment of each sprint the team works through the feedback from the client by iterative process until all the requirements are fulfilled.

Unit & Integration Testing

To ensure the quality testing is essential. It does cost extra time as for one method to test all the cases we need to write multiple unit tests, nevertheless its worth the time. Testing helps in minimising the bugs and unexpected surprises in the software. Unit testing of software product is carried out during the development phase to ensure each of the methods, components or modules are tested during implementation phase. Integration testing is the process of testing integration and interaction between different  software modules for example interaction with a database or interaction with a REST endpoint etc.

Continuous Integration and Deployment

Devops is a set of practice to build, test & release your code in small frequent steps. One of the core practices of Devops is Continuous Integration. Developers commit their code to a shared repository often on daily basis. Each commit triggers an automated work flow on a CI server that can notify developers any issues integrating their changes. When a repository evolves in small steps like this it prevents a known issue called “merge hell”. Merge hell is encountered when developers working on the same or different branches merge their code after a long time and during merging find out that their code is completely incompatible. Continuous integration prevents issues like that. At the end of the day CI/CD offers two main benefits: First, it helps you automate things those otherwise have to be done manually, that results in overall increased velocity. Second, it also detects small problems early before they can grow into major disasters, and that results in higher code quality.

Quality Assurance

Quality assurance ensures that the software developed meets all the quality requirements and standards. It is a preventive approach to establish the correct methodology and standard to provide a quality environment to the product being developed. Quality Assurance focuses on process standard, projects audit, and procedures for development.

Maintenance

However mundane software maintenance may sound, it is indeed a very large part of Software lifecycle. In order to keep up with the changing requirements, or because of  the third party softwares, upgrades are performed as part of maintenance. Bug fixing is another very important aspect of maintenance. Companies like Google or Apple too have bugs in their software products. Developing a completely bug free s/w is almost impossible. Although it depends on the complexity of the entire system. The module of the s/w that doesn’t run frequently may contain bugs for a long time. Maintenance is the process of modifying and updating s/w product after delivery to rectify bugs, improve performance or  revised customer requirements. Corrective maintenance is done to fix some errors. Adaptive maintenance is applied to keep the s/w product up-to date with changing  business environment. Perfective maintenance is for adapting to new features or requirements. Preventive maintenance  includes modifications to prevent future problems of the s/w.

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