Development Best Practices
Our 5-step process ensures a quality integration. EX² Solutions' Envision implementations typically include these phases and activities:
Discover
- Business process assessment
- Systems topology review
- Scope estimation
- Requirements proposal
Define
- Process changes identified
- Integration methodology
- Business rules
- Detailed requirements
Design
- Technical Design
- Database design, including seeding of data to be used for development
- Data and application integration design
- Solution architecture definition (caching, logging, session/user management, configuration management, security, etc.)
- Proof of concept for any deliverables that are perceived to be high risk to mitigate future impact to the project
- Development environment setup including implementation and documentation of automated build process
- Definition of solution approach for Exception handling
- Definition of Hardware & software requirements
- For clients that are hosting their own solutions, definition of hardware and software requirements for the proposed solution
- Visual Design
- Development of 2-3 design concepts for key page(s)
- Upon selection of design approach, design of remaining pages
Develop
- Transformation of designs into HTML
- Solution development for each tier
- Report development (typically using Microsoft Reporting Services)
- Data import and export development
- NUnit test development for automated testing
- Interim build testing for verification of complete deliverables
- Optional deployment to “sandbox” environment for client preview of solution
Deploy
- Documentation of deployment processes
- Full integration tests in devbuild, test, stage, and production environments using manual and automated processes
- Performance testing in stress lab environment typically using Microsoft Web Application Stress Tool and RedGate Ants Performance Profiler
- User acceptance testing
- Data conversion, where applicable
- Training and knowledge transfer, where applicable
