Software development techniques in Albanian private software companies

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Software development techniques in Albanian
private software companies

• Arbora Dalaci, Esmeralda Kapcari
• borad_14_at_yahoo.com, esmeralda.kapcari_at_gmail.com
• 7th Workshop
• Software Engineering Education and Reverse
  Engineering
• Risan, Montenegro, 9 14 September 2007.

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Software market in Albania

• Actually in Albania there are 7 software
  development companies
• About all these companies are partners (have
  purchased the licences) with Oracle, Microsoft,
  IBM ...
• Mostly they deal with private market but recently
  they are dealing with the government market too.

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Quality criteria of software products developed

• Correctness not so much
• Reliability not so much
• Robustness missing
• Efficiency not so much
• User friendliness good
• Maintainability ok main profit for the company
• Scalability missing
• Readability poor
• Reusability ok
• Modularity ok
• Portability missing
• Compatibility ok
• Testing ok
• Costs main concern

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Quality criteria of software products developed
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The main phases from planning to the product

• The representatives of the software development
  firm make a meeting with clients
• Here are discussed the main requests about the
  product
• There are not so many suggestions from the
  clients

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Analysis and definitions

• It is made an analysis in cooperation with the
  client
• Definitions keep on growing because it misses the
  methodology on the communication between the
  client and the solution provider.
• Some times the lack of experience from the
  solution providers.

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The first meeting of the development group

• Here are discussed the hardware platform were the
  product will be installed
• The main technologies that will host and develop
  the software product.
• During this meeting many questions about the
  product are raised and pointed out
• At this point are defined the licenses needed to
  be purchased by the client

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The second meeting with the clients

• Answers are given about the questions raised from
  the development group
• Clients agree about the licenses and other
  technical conditions that are needed
• Here it is agreed about the GUI desktop or web
  application or both

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The second meeting of the development group

• The project timeline (development, testing,
  implementation and maintenance)
• Here are spotted the development phases and
  assignments
• Here is done a cost estimation about the product

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The main modelling plan

• Here mostly is used the spiral model as the
  development model for a software product.
• Many meetings with the client during the
  development
• Requests (by the client) may change during phases

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The development begins

• During the development phases can be done several
  meeting with the representatives of the clients
• Can be added or reformulated different
  specifications or requirements
• The development is modular in most of the cases
• During the module development there are done
  several testings on the modules

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Testing period

• Gather together all the modules
• A short period time of testing
• At this period there are not spotted the logic
  problems but the errors that concern in the
  communications between the modules
• After the testing period are revised the
  requirements for the product

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Implementation period

• The installation of the software product
• The configurations
• The hardware installations
• Some cases we concern with the connections
  testing to verify and achieve the technical
  requirements

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Product monitoring after implementation

• Monitoring the performance
• Monitoring of the reliability
• Monitoring of the user friendliness
• Monitoring of the security
• Gathering of users feedback
• If any of these its not as was expected, the
  revision of the module is done.

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Maintanance

• Depending on the type of contract
• In-site or off-site maintenance
• Can be as cost per call or fixed fee.
• It is considered as the main source of profit for
  the software development company

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