We follow proven best practices and strive for continuous improvements for development methodologies.

Web Application Development
In order to reduce the risk of potential bugs & security concerns we follow a well tailored model for web application development. It consists of following phases:

Web applications vary in terms of technical complexity, scalability and security concerns. Depending on the time to market and level of complexity, we perform a range of testing to ensure its quality.

• Unit testing
• Integration testing
• System testinng
• Security/Anti-hacking
• HTML/CSS validation
• Accessibility
• Usability Cross-browser compatibility
• Performance, Load, and Stress testing

Understanding requirements and proposing solutions
If requirements are not readily available, then a requirements study is conducted independently either remotely if the application is understandably small or by Onsite mode if applications are large. Once requirements are clear, a formal proposal describing the following would be given to the customer with:

• Our Approach, architectural solution
• Release and Iteration planning
• List of Artifacts that we will produce
• Communication and Collaboration Channels during the course of the project
• Effort Estimation: Function Point Analysis

Distributed Agile           
We understand the challenges of outsourcing –

• Changing needs
• Distributed team handling requirements management, planning and work distribution
• Right infrastructure
• Cultural differences
• Time zones
• Communication and collaboration, risk mitigation, business continuity.

At StepIntoWeb, Distributed Agile is a development methodology that adheres to the principles of Agile Development Methodologies (ADM) like SCRUM (and others) and emphasizes the use of tools and metrics to successfully collaborate and measure productivity in a globally distributed development environment. In addition to enhancing the speed and agility, Distributed Agile brings in scalability and predictability to quality and product release based on tool-based measurement and management of metrics. Distributed Agile powers StepIntoWeb delivery process enabling us to focus on delivering the highest business value to customers in the shortest time.
 
Our Distributed Agile covers –

Requirements

• Capturing software and associated requirements, prioritizing and tracking meticulously
• Implementing best practices - prototyping, writing usage stories, planning for performance
• Development and Testing
• Agile Software Development - time-boxed iterations, incremental, continuously verify for quality, get regular feedbacks from customer and extensive use of automation for improved efficiency
• Code quality / Refactoring - continuous code review, no single owner of code
• Testing - test driven development

Planning, Project Management & Risk Management

• Planning for engagement initiation, release, sprint with active coordination between onsite /offshore team
• Project management - manage requirements, people, risks, metrics collection to measure performance, introspect, review and implement learningTracking, Monitoring and measuring progress
• Risk Management - Identify risks, define mitigation plan