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

Architecture – Specifies programming language, 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 – Not just the programming language, but including 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

Prototyping can be a part of the Design phase. A prototype is like one of the early versions of software in the Iterative software development model. It demonstrates a basic idea of how the application looks and works. This “hands-on” design can be shown to clients. Use client's feedback to improve the application. It’s less expensive to change the Prototype phase than to rewrite code to make a change in the Development phase.

This is the actual writing of the program. A small project might be written 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.

Software developers appreciate instructions and explanations. Documentation can be a formal process, including wiring a user guide for the application. It can also be informal, like comments in the source code that explain why a developer used a certain procedure. Even clients that strive to create software that's easy and intuitive benefit from the documentation.

Documentation can be a quick guided tour of the application's basic features that display on the first launch. It can be video tutorials for complex tasks. Written documentation like user guides, troubleshooting guides, and FAQ’s help users solve problems or technical questions.

And creating API Documentation is a must for projects using web services.

It's critical to test an application before making it available to users. Much of the testing can be automated, like security testing. Other testing can only be done in a specific environment – consider creating a simulated production environment for complex deployments. Testing should ensure that each function works correctly. Different parts of the application should also 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.

After thorough testing process our QA Enginners send a feedback to our developer teams. They go through test scenarios & doing various bug fixes & improvements to the software we made. Finding and fixing errors and glitches is critical. Tasks often hold up the development process, such as waiting for test results or compiling code so an application can run. Efito development process can anticipate these delays so that developers can be tasked with other duties.

After all the hard work of Software Development it's time to deploy. Deployment can be in various ways depending on the technology, programming languages or platforms we used. Some projects require compiling & deployment on cloud hosting enviorment.

We do all confirguations on cloud hosting environment & configure VMs on Linux servers for deployment.

For mobile projects deployment to Apple Store or Google Play will be carried out with each required steps.

Database deployment & getting the app ready to be used by client's customers will handled in this phase.

At this point, the development cycle is almost finished. The application is done and being used in the field. The Operation and Maintenance phase is still important, though. In this phase, users discover bugs that weren’t found during testing. These errors need to be resolved, which can spawn new development cycles.

In addition to bug fixes, models like Iterative development plan additional features in future releases. For each new release, a new Development Cycle can be launched.

This process will be slightly different for long term projects based on hourly rates or phase basis. At Efito we follow Agile Scrum methodology for development of large scale projects. We submit weekly, monthly releases & gettting constant feedback from our customers during the development process.

Seperate full time development team will be allocated for the project including Technical Lead, Project Manager, Multiple Software Developers (No. of developers will be based on requirement complexity of project), Multiple Testing & QA Enginners.

Weekly meetings will be arranged online to discuss current development process, improvements for completed parts, discussing missing aspects, furture vision & planning etc.