Our Software Development Process and Technologies

Is a process or the structure used to impose for the development of a software product. Software development may include research, new development, variation, recycle, re-engineering, maintenance, or any other activity used for the outcome of the software products. The term software development may also refer to computer programming, the process of writing and maintaining the source code.

Software development process involves set of activities for a software product

Planning

The first step involves in making a software product is planning or analyzing. The most important task in creating a software product is extracting the requirements. Clients generally have an abstract idea of what they want as an end result, but not what software should do. Once the general requirements are accumulated from the client, an analysis of the scope of the development will be determined and clearly stated to the client.

Design

Domain Analysis is often the first step in attempting to design a new piece of software, whether it be an addition to existing software. The first task is to investigate the so-called "domain" of the software. Each produces domain models such as feature tables, facet tables, facet templates, and generic architectures. A generic architecture describes all of the systems in a domain.

Specification

Specification is a document that clearly and accurately describes the essential technical requirements for items, materials, or services including the procedures by which it can be determined that the requirements have been met. Specifications help avoid duplication and contradictions, allow for accurate estimates of necessary work and resources, act as a negotiation and reference document for engineering changes, provide documentation of configuration, and allow for consistent communication among the functions of Systems Engineering. They provide guidance to testers for verification of each technical requirement.

Architecture

The software architecture of a program or computing system is the structure or structures of the system, which comprise software components, the externally visible properties of those components, and the relationships between them. The term also refers to documentation of a system's software architecture. Documenting software architecture facilitates communication between stakeholders, documents early decisions about high-level design, and allows reuse of design components and patterns between projects. Architecture is concerned with making sure the software system will meet the requirements of the product, as well as ensuring that future requirements can be addressed. The architecture step also addresses interfaces between the software system and other software products, as well as the underlying hardware or the host operating system.

Implementation, testing and documenting

Software Implementation is the realization of an application or execution of a plan, idea, model, design, specification, standard, algorithm, or policy or process where our software engineers actually program the code for the project. Software Testing is stated as the process of validating and verifying that a software program/application/product. Meets the business and technical requirements that guided its design and development. Works as expected and can be implemented with the same characteristics. Testing is an integral and important part of the software development process. This part of the process ensures that bugs are recognized as early as possible.

Software Documenting or source code documentation is written text that accompanies computer software. It either explains how it operates or how to use it, and may mean different things to people in different roles. Documentation is the description of what particular software does or shall do. The internal design of software for the purpose of future maintenance and enhancement is done throughout development. This may also include the authoring of an application programming interface (API), be it external or internal.

Deployment and maintenance

Deployment starts after the code is appropriately tested, is approved for release and sold or otherwise distributed into a production environment. The general deployment process consists of several interrelated activities with possible transitions between them. Deployment can be understood as a general process that has to be customized according to specific requirements or characteristics.

Software Training and Support

We, frequently have internal technical support available to our staff for computer related problems. In general, technical support services attempt to help the user solve specific problems with a product—rather than providing training, customization, or other support services.

Maintenance and enhancing software to cope with newly discovered problems or new requirements can take far more time than the initial development of the software. It may be necessary to add code that does not fit the original design to correct an unforeseen problem. Maintenance is the modification of a software product after delivery to correct faults, to improve performance or other attributes, or to adapt the product to a modified environment.

Bug Tracking System tools are often deployed at this stage of the process to allow development teams to interface with customer/field teams testing the software to identify any real or perceived issues. These software tools, both open source and commercially licensed, provide a customizable process to acquire, review, acknowledge, and respond to reported issues.