FAQ

  • Our agile rapid development platform was created from scratch by our founders Spence, Rama and Milfar. Our Chief UI / UX Designer and Software Developer, Seng, created the user interface.

    Everything about our company is handcrafted, made-to-order and in-house.

  • Software development is the conceiving, specifying, designing, programming, documenting, testing, and bug fixing involved in creating and maintaining applications, frameworks, and other software components.

    Software development is a process of writing and maintaining the source code, however, it incorporates everything from the origination of the ideal programming to the last appearance of the product, occasionally in an organized process. Software development may include research, new development, prototyping, modification, reuse, re-engineering, maintenance, and any other exercises that result in programming items.

  • Rapid development platforms (RDPs) allow programmers and non-programmers to create application software through graphical user interfaces and configuration instead of traditional hardcoding. RDPs are closely related to low-code development platforms as both are designed to expedite the application development process. However, unlike low-code, RDPs require no code writing at all.

  • In software development, agile practices include requirements discovery and solutions improvement through the collaborative effort of self-organizing and cross-functional teams with their customers / end users, adaptive planning, evolutionary development, early delivery, continual improvement, and flexible responses to changes in requirements, capacity, and understanding of the problems to be solved.

  • 1. Planning

    In the Planning phase, project leaders evaluate the terms of the project. This includes calculating labor and material costs, creating a timetable with target goals, and creating the project’s teams and leadership structure.

    2. Define Requirements

    Defining requirements is considered part of planning to determine what the application is supposed to do and its requirements. Requirements also include defining the resources needed to build the project.

    3. Design and Prototyping

    The Design phase models the way a software application will work. Some aspects of the design include:

    Architecture – Specifies industry practices, overall design, and use of any templates or boilerplate

    User Interface – Defines the ways customers interact with the software, and how the software responds to input

    Platforms – Defines the platforms on which the software will run, such as Apple, Android, Windows version, Linux, or even gaming consoles

    Programming – Includes methods of solving problems and performing tasks in the application

    Communications – Defines the methods that the application can communicate with other assets, such as a central server or other instances of the application

    Security – Defines the measures taken to secure the application, and may include SSL traffic encryption, password protection, and secure storage of user credentials

    4. Software Development

    This is the actual programming of the application. A small project might be programmed by a single developer, while a large project might be broken up and worked by several teams. Use an Access Control or Source Code Management application in this phase. These systems help developers track changes to the code. They also help ensure compatibility between different team projects and to make sure target goals are being met.

    5. Testing

    Different parts of the application will be tested to work seamlessly together—performance test, to reduce any hangs or lags in processing. The testing phase helps reduce the number of bugs and glitches that users encounter. This leads to a higher user satisfaction and a better usage rate.

    6. Deployment

    In the deployment phase, the application is made available to users. Many companies prefer to automate the deployment phase. This can be as simple as a payment portal and download link on the company website. It could also be downloading an application on a smartphone.

    7. Operations and Maintenance

    At this point, the development cycle is almost finished. The application is done and being used in the field. In this phase, users discover bugs that weren’t found during testing and are fixed.

  • Consider the following factors when determining the costs of and creating a budget for custom software development.

    Software Size: The more screens or pages an app has, the more work needs to be done to create an application, and the more expensive it will be to deliver.

    Software Complexity: Complicated programming takes more time to create and test.

    Creative Design: Creative design in custom software development is where a customer gets to choose different fonts and color palettes, among other things. Much like when someone is designing and decorating a house, the more extravagant the design needs and wants, the more expensive the costs tend to be.

    Integration With Other Systems: Sometimes the integrations are effortless, but sometimes they are complicated. It all depends on what we are integrating.

    Migration of Existing Data: If you have data in an existing system that needs to be moved into a new application, assuming it is more than someone can feasibly type in by hand, then it will require migration. Migration is nothing more than custom scripts that take data out of an old system, dust it off, and reshape it so it can fit into the new system. The steps of this process are fairly straight-forward, but there are a lot of questions and decisions that need to be made since the two systems will store the data differently. This is a consideration in cost.

  • We build software significantly faster than traditional software development companies because of our rapid development platform.

    Timelines on projects vary due to requirements and the complexity of each software, but here are some average timelines for SBBD.

    Requirements gathering: 2 weeks. The faster you give us the requirements, the quicker we can get to work.

    Design: 2-3 weeks

    Development: 1-3 months. Development could take longer if the project is extremely complex.

    Testing: 2-3 weeks

    Submission to App Store or Google Play: up to 2 weeks

    Maintenance and updates: Any length of time, but usually quickly because of our Agile no-code platform.