CONCEPT TO COMPLETION
1. Project Conceptualization
At this phase we work closely with you and discuss all the details about your current practices, business objectives and marketing goals, ensuring we thoroughly understand all project requirements.
Through gaining insight into your needs and strategic challenges we define the project scope along with the technologies and the application development approach thus setting the foundation of a successful implementation in the most efficient manner possible while effectively managing risks and maintaining high quality of the final software product.
Based on the information gathered through communication with the customer and further analysis, our team elaborates a detailed Proposal document that incorporates the following key elements:
- Vision document provides our description of the entire project scope, goals of the software, as well as outlines the application functionality, constraints (such as schedules, costs, or the software engineering environment) and requirements that must be satisfied;
- Preliminary Estimate covers the project size, work effort, and software development costs;
- Draft Project Plan illustrates the major milestones and provides a rough timeline for the project implementation.
The Proposal document is sent to the customer for review and approval before proceeding further.
1. Project Conceptualization
At this phase we work closely with you and discuss all the details about your current practices, business objectives and marketing goals, ensuring we thoroughly understand all project requirements.
Through gaining insight into your needs and strategic challenges we define the project scope along with the technologies and the application development approach thus setting the foundation of a successful implementation in the most efficient manner possible while effectively managing risks and maintaining high quality of the final software product.
Based on the information gathered through communication with the customer and further analysis, our team elaborates a detailed Proposal document that incorporates the following key elements:
- Vision document provides our description of the entire project scope, goals of the software, as well as outlines the application functionality, constraints (such as schedules, costs, or the software engineering environment) and requirements that must be satisfied;
- Preliminary Estimate covers the project size, work effort, and software development costs;
- Draft Project Plan illustrates the major milestones and provides a rough timeline for the project implementation.
The Proposal document is sent to the customer for review and approval before proceeding further.
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2. Project Realization
Software companies of every kind are challenged to develop high quality products, release new features ahead of the competition and reduce operating costs and risks. With our unique development methodology , ACS is uniquely equipped to help software developers introduce innovative product features that both satisfy the changing demands of the market and deliver product value to end users.In this stage Developers design their respective features and modules, which are then reviewed. Reviewers include:
• Senior architects
• Representatives of teams who have dependencies on this feature/module
• Representatives of the testing team for that feature
Any design flaws identified in the reviews are filed as bugs and need to be resolved before the design phase can be considered completed. Any special hardware or software required for implementation of the product are also at this stage
3. Project Testing & QA
Project testing is an integral part of the project development life cycle, starting from the requirements to the implementation phase. Global enterprises have borne the brunt of not testing products and have lost several million dollars as a result. Product testing not only reduces the risk of business losses, but also improves the quality of the product significantly. In today's multiple technology platform scenarios, product testing is more critical than ever.
At ACS ,we offer a wide range of services to address all aspects of product testing. Our product testing services suite include:
Software companies of every kind are challenged to develop high quality products, release new features ahead of the competition and reduce operating costs and risks. With our unique development methodology , ACS is uniquely equipped to help software developers introduce innovative product features that both satisfy the changing demands of the market and deliver product value to end users.In this stage Developers design their respective features and modules, which are then reviewed. Reviewers include:
• Senior architects
• Representatives of teams who have dependencies on this feature/module
• Representatives of the testing team for that feature
Any design flaws identified in the reviews are filed as bugs and need to be resolved before the design phase can be considered completed. Any special hardware or software required for implementation of the product are also at this stage
3. Project Testing & QA
Project testing is an integral part of the project development life cycle, starting from the requirements to the implementation phase. Global enterprises have borne the brunt of not testing products and have lost several million dollars as a result. Product testing not only reduces the risk of business losses, but also improves the quality of the product significantly. In today's multiple technology platform scenarios, product testing is more critical than ever.
At ACS ,we offer a wide range of services to address all aspects of product testing. Our product testing services suite include:
| • | Functional Testing |
| • | Installation Testing |
| • | Regression Testing |
| • | Scalability & Reliability Testing |
| • | Performance and Stress Testing |
| • | Unit and Integration Testing |
| • | System and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) |
| • | Automation of Tests |
| • | Test Planning and Case Development |
| • | Quality Tracking of various Releases |
4. Project Localization
Developing software products for a global audience requires technology companies to rapidly and cost-effectively translate these products into every language imaginable. Although localization is necessary to conducting international business, it can also be a tedious and time-consuming task that takes considerable resources away from core software R&D
ACS's breadth of resource enables us to provide a complete software localization solution enabling your international customers to interact with your software seamlessly in their own language. We offer guidance and advice at all stages of your project, ensuring a successful delivery of your localized software product, on time and within budget.
Handling all your project localization needs
Our engineers can localize your software product on most platforms including:
Developing software products for a global audience requires technology companies to rapidly and cost-effectively translate these products into every language imaginable. Although localization is necessary to conducting international business, it can also be a tedious and time-consuming task that takes considerable resources away from core software R&D
ACS's breadth of resource enables us to provide a complete software localization solution enabling your international customers to interact with your software seamlessly in their own language. We offer guidance and advice at all stages of your project, ensuring a successful delivery of your localized software product, on time and within budget.
Handling all your project localization needs
Our engineers can localize your software product on most platforms including:
| • | Microsoft Window |
| • | Mac |
| • | Solaris/Linux |
| • | UNIX |
| • | OSDOS |
| • | OS/2 |
Some of the tools we use include
| • | Microsoft Office suite |
| • | Adobe FrameMaker |
| • | Adobe Illustrator |
| • | Adobe InDesign |
| • | Quark Xpress |
| • | Macromedia Fireworks |
5. Project Maintenance & Support
Software products require maintenance and support as the needs change and grow. Software upgrades are frequent as technology itself is advancing. Software maintenance and support services enable you to sustain your product in a focused way. Maintenance services may include major and minor variations, and enhancements. We offers world-class Software maintenance and support services
. We are well-equipped and have well defined procedures and methodologies for providing quality support and maintenance services for products and applications in an efficient and timely manner. We help our clients to be able to control and plan the maintenance, offering overall quality and good customer satisfaction.
Different types of project maintenance service we offers are:
Corrective Maintenance : To resolve the corrective, incidental issues and errors.
Preventive Maintenance : To plan and implement the action to avoid future problems based upon past incidents, anticipation, feedback and continuous improvement.
Adaptive Maintenance : adoptions are made to the application as a result of external factors.
Perfective Maintenance : To carry out functional modifications.
Different types of activities in our Maintenance Services are:
Software products require maintenance and support as the needs change and grow. Software upgrades are frequent as technology itself is advancing. Software maintenance and support services enable you to sustain your product in a focused way. Maintenance services may include major and minor variations, and enhancements. We offers world-class Software maintenance and support services
. We are well-equipped and have well defined procedures and methodologies for providing quality support and maintenance services for products and applications in an efficient and timely manner. We help our clients to be able to control and plan the maintenance, offering overall quality and good customer satisfaction.
Different types of project maintenance service we offers are:
Corrective Maintenance : To resolve the corrective, incidental issues and errors.
Preventive Maintenance : To plan and implement the action to avoid future problems based upon past incidents, anticipation, feedback and continuous improvement.
Adaptive Maintenance : adoptions are made to the application as a result of external factors.
Perfective Maintenance : To carry out functional modifications.
Different types of activities in our Maintenance Services are:
| • | Incident Management |
| • | Modification management |
| • | Maintenance and renewal |
| • | Configuration control |
| • | Program management and distribution |
| • | Dedicated team 24/7 support |
| • | Lower cost resources |
| • | Focus on core activity with in-house team |
| • | Rapid time to realize and time to market the software product |
Testing activities
• When implementing new features for an existing product, it is important to ensure that the functionality of old features does not suffer. Test scripts that test all old features are run at frequent intervals on new builds. Such ‘smoke tests’ are carried out at least once a day or whenever a new build is released.
• Testers create test cases for the new features being developed, and implement required test scripts or test beds.
• To ensure that features are released by developers in a complete and working condition, a list of pre-check-in tests for each feature are identified and developers ensure that the code clears all these tests before releasing it.
• Testing validates that the feature passes all pre-check in tests. Testing also carries out a full-scale functional test pass on the feature to verify complete functionality in all scenarios. The feature is put through basic performance and load tests to ensure that it meets the thresholds specified for performance, reliability, and scalability.
• In parallel, the developer sends the feature for review to program management. The program manager verifies the completeness of functionality, visual cleanliness of the user interface, usability of the feature and correctness of all strings used.
Once the feature meets all these criteria it is declared complete and ready to enter into the next phase of our project development life cycle
• When implementing new features for an existing product, it is important to ensure that the functionality of old features does not suffer. Test scripts that test all old features are run at frequent intervals on new builds. Such ‘smoke tests’ are carried out at least once a day or whenever a new build is released.
• Testers create test cases for the new features being developed, and implement required test scripts or test beds.
• To ensure that features are released by developers in a complete and working condition, a list of pre-check-in tests for each feature are identified and developers ensure that the code clears all these tests before releasing it.
• Testing validates that the feature passes all pre-check in tests. Testing also carries out a full-scale functional test pass on the feature to verify complete functionality in all scenarios. The feature is put through basic performance and load tests to ensure that it meets the thresholds specified for performance, reliability, and scalability.
• In parallel, the developer sends the feature for review to program management. The program manager verifies the completeness of functionality, visual cleanliness of the user interface, usability of the feature and correctness of all strings used.
Once the feature meets all these criteria it is declared complete and ready to enter into the next phase of our project development life cycle