SEI CMM Driven Software development life cycle

Our software development process consists of following phases

Gathering requirements
During this phase we try to understand client issues and the requirements needed to solve these. The knowledge that has been accumulated for years cannot just be transferred  or understood in a short time. Hence, workshops to analyze the workflow and understand the current system, etc are held. During this phase our engineers visit the client office and spend time in understanding the business process by getting involved in the workflow. We normally expect to complete more than 50 percent of our requirements study during this phase. We realize that the procedures and systems followed by one organization are alien to those followed by others.


Analysis 
During this phase we lay our collection of data on the table and analyze it. We try to find alternate solutions and methods for your business in case we cannot adopt the client's directly. We decide upon solution strategies with the client where we could develop prototypes to demonstrate the work of certain functionality. This would reveal the possible intricacies in workflow and data representation.


Design
This phase give shape to the product and technical issues are of utmost importance at this stage. We believe technology cannot be a constraint. The design phase has two major stages high-level or architectural design and low-level design or component level design for which we have wide  technical expertise and experience. 


Development
Our aim is to write good quality code, which can sustain conditions and still be maintained easily. We follow industry's best known practices. We follow the standard coding pattern. Every engineer's code is reviewed by his peer and approved by the team leader before it is implemented. 


Testing
We test the product through several stages. There are Unit testing, system testing, integration testing, requirements testing and user acceptance testing. In our lab, every stage usually has multiple level filtering. Bugs found during development are well documented and tracked through to elimination. 


Implementation
According to us this phase is usually challenging. It requires a lot of end user interaction in client site. During this phase we depute our engineers onsite. We work together till all issues are settled. If Bugs are faced after implementation, they are termed "customer complaints" and are treated with high priority.