Software Product Development Life Cycle

Core Software's team works with ISVs who are in different stages of their product lifecycle: Launch, Growth, Mature, Declining and Rebuild. Our services are optimized to provide value relative to each stage of ISVs product lifecycle.

Core Software with its decade experience and strong technical skills has developed expertise in providing these services to its clients.

Functional Requirements Definition

This stage involves analyzing the client’s requirements from a software application perspective. Specifying the software required for meeting the requirements of a company is a major activity in this stage. We, at Core Software offer our expert advice.

Product Architecture and Design

With proven skills and several hundred man years of experience, we provide excellent product architecture and design services to our clients. We have developed various products architecture and design for advanced technologies like J2EE, .Net and many more. We help clients choose the right architecture, suitable platform and technology. We develop product interface designs and operational concepts and scenarios.

We developed robust procedures with our vast experience in product development, testing and sustenance services. The procedures are complemented with guidelines, templates and checklists. This is demonstrated in usage of coding standards (separate for all technologies / platforms), design and code review checklists, and testing guidelines.

Product Development

We nurtured a team of software developers exclusively for product development. Our product development procedures methodologies are world-class. During the product development phase, the major work involves coding. We create detailed documentation that includes a low level design document sent for client’s approval at this stage. Subsequently all the documents like coding standards, build notes and installation notes are created. During the whole development process, we are constantly in touch with the client. For every project, an account manager is allotted who takes care of this process.

Product Testing

Product Testing is an extremely critical phase in the product development life cycle. Our QA team ensures that all the product requirements functional and non-functional, are strictly adhered to while ensuring the quality of the delivery. We provide client’s access to our bug tracking tool which provides complete reports.

We take up Functional Testing, Automated Regression Testing, Compatibility Testing, Performance Testing, Integration Testing, White-box Testing, Load Testing, Stress Testing.

Support

In this stage, we ensure that the client has all the necessary information to maintain and enhance the software delivered. We keep the client updated on the project and provide him the necessary information on a need basis. Some of the key services that we provide include internationalization & localization of products, porting across platforms, client customizations and technical support.

For supporting the client after the product development we provide:

• Technical support to the administrator
• Minor modifications or bugs
• Database maintenance
• Guidance for any modifications