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Outsourcing Product Development

Application Development Process

Outsourceitindia focuses on minimizing project risks and time involved in product development. The development method that we use is process oriented. Our business approach is to create solutions that satisfy your organization’s business goals.

There are several reputed development approaches that are available in the global market. We follow the spiral iterative approach in which every project goes through several iterations of all the project phases.

We have a well structured methodology that defines processes for capturing requirements, analysis, design, development, testing, and deployment. UML diagrams which represent models such as Use Case, Analysis, Design, Implementation, and Test are generated.

Phase 1 – Requirement Definition

As the name suggests, the client requirements are collected during this phase. The requirement definition phase is dependant on the information provided by the client. It could be in various forms such as market research, current systems & process specifications, end user interviews, documents etc. This phase is comprised of the following steps:
1. Analysis of client requirements along with the goal of business application
2. Gathering of requirements at a high level
3. Preparation of feature list and visual scope document
4. Offer technical advice.

Phase 2 – Analysis

The vision & scope document and the feature list are indispensable to the analysis phase. A thorough analysis is conducted based on the information provided in the vision & scope document and the feature list. This phase is comprised of the following steps:
1. Analysis and preparation of specifications pertaining to the software requirement
2. Preparation of Use Case Specification and Diagram
3. Generation of Use Case model
4. Design business rules
5. Design flow diagrams
6. Finalizing of Requirement Traceability Matrix
7. Already established contract is validated against the scope and estimates.
8. Necessary contract revisions.

Phase 3 – Design

Design phase involves the development of application design. The factors that are crucial to this phase are:
Use Case Specification
Software Requirement Specification
Business Rules
Business Diagrams
Available scope from the Requirement Definition phase.

This phase is comprised of the following steps:
1. Creation of architectural diagrams
2. Preparation of high level design class diagrams
3. Preparation of low level design class diagrams
4. Creation of diagrams such as Data Flow, Entity Relationship, and Deployment.
5. Development of user interface prototype.
6. Validation of the user interface prototype against the client requirement
7. Presentation of the user interface prototype to the client for approval
8. Representation of Use Cases described in the Analysis model with the help of collaboration diagrams
9. Creation of Design model elaborations from the analysis model
10. Generation of Implementation model from design
11. Generation of Test model from available Use Cases.

Phase 4 – Development

Development phase is considered to be one of the most crucial phases in the software development cycle. In the Development phase, software code is written based on the initial design. The code is then tested against actual design requirements and test cases. This phase is comprised of the following steps:
1. Based on implementation and design models, software code is developed
2. Software code is tested
3. Process documentation
4. Preparation of Use Case Test results.

Phase 5 – Integration and Testing

In this phase, the application that has been developed is put to test through test plans, test cases and client acceptance criteria in the production environment. This phase is comprised of the following steps:
1. Generation of test reports from integration and quality testing
2. User acceptance tests
3. User feedback
4. Error Correction
5. User acceptance.

Phase 6 – Deployment and Acceptance

Deployment and Acceptance is the final stage in which the application that has been developed is deployed on the actual server. This phase is comprised of the following steps:
1. Deployment plan of the developed application
2. Implementation of the developed application on the client server
3. Implementation approval by client
4. Handing over the developed application to the maintenance group. 

All these phases go through iteration until the deliverable is completed.

Outsourceitindia will also submit a detailed project agenda. It will have a clear description of the roles of the client and the developer. It will also contain the deadlines for all deliverables.