Processes at Unicon

Unicon Worldwide adopts proven, robust and time-honored full software development life cycle to provide fully functional, scalable, and powerful software solutions to its clients. The Software Development Life Cycle followed by Unicon involves solid collaboration of business analysts, software professionals, programmers, developers, database designers, QA developers and end users in order to build the desired and up to the mark application software.

Unicon believes in creating quality software solutions that are based on the three principles:

• Perfect modeling of the software development life cycle i.e. process
• Perfect modeling of the competency of product i.e. product
• Perfect modeling of the project management and human interactions i.e. people

The software development process adopted at Unicon Worldwide can be divided into the following steps:

Requirement Gathering:

This stage involves requirements gathering of the clients. This phase is executed on the basis of information given by the client. This information may include existing systems & process specs, related documents, on-site analysis, interviews with end-users. This phase also involves functional analysis that includes in-depth market research and competitor analysis. Following steps are involved in this stage:

• Realizing the business goal followed by high level requirements gathering
• Formulating visual scope document and system feature list
• Providing technical recommendations and high level requirement specification

Analysis Phase:

This stage involves a detailed analysis, which is performed on the basis of the information in the vision & scope document, business specifications, and feature list. This phase has the following steps:

• Thorough functional analysis and creation of Software Requirement Specification (SRS)
• Creation of Use Case Specification & Diagram and generating the Use Case Model
• Designing of mandatory business rules and flow diagrams
• Confirmation of the Project Scope and Estimates against the contract and revisions made if needed

Design Stage:

Based on the SRS and finalized requirements, design phase is carried on. This phase is considered as very crucial in the software development cycle process and includes the work assignments, designing of the interfaces and functionalities of the software, costs and estimations, project schedule, pseudocode, and the specification of the target dates. The design elements e intended to describe the software in a sufficient detail that the client could have an idea about the process and the developers could develop the software with minimal additional input.

Client's approval:

The design is sent to the client for his approval. Modifications are done accordingly if required. After client's approval, development phase is started.

Development phase:

Development phase takes the approved design elements as the primary inputs and involves coding and programming. The coding involves scripting the source code based on the required functionality of software by adhering the coding standards, and code optimization. The outputs of development phase comprise a fully functional set of software that matches the requirements and the design elements. This phase also includes an updated project plan along with the implementation guidelines.

Integration and testing phase:

The software artifacts are transferred from the development environment to the testing environment in this stage. Testing is done in order to fix all the errors and bugs in order to verify the accuracy, competency and completeness of the software.

Implementation:

The software is migrated to the production server to complete the final step of implementation successful execution of the software suite is required to ensure the final acceptance of software by Client.

Maintenance & Support:

Each software requires regular maintenance to ensure its efficient functionality and working in a long run. Unicon offers long term maintenance and support services to cope with the bugs and errors that are expected to exist even after the software deployment is done. The maintenance phase of the software development life cycle followed by Unicon is competent enough to be able to accommodate the changes that may occur during the post implementation period.