Omni-Net brings you a well-defined and mature application development process which comprises the complete Software Development Life Cycle - from case analysis to definition, quality assurance (QA), release & hosting, sales & licensing, marketing and support phases.

These processes help us carry out software development in a disciplined manner. We leverage the combination of Life Cycle Support and Quality Processes to deliver quality inputs to subsequent SDLC stages. Our mixed delivery model augments software development with onsite technical support and business analysis to provide a clear means of reducing software development costs, while improving the quality and compressing time of delivery.

The Project Teams can range from small teams to large multi-disciplined teams, built on our solid experience in consistently delivering successful projects for client organizations. Our Project delivery services features strong governance model, excellent project management methodologies, best delivery practices, tools, checklists, and templates designed to complement and support of leading industry methodologies.

Omni-Net's Development Methodology covers the entire life cycle of an Information System, from the initial planning to the end of the System's useful life. This Methodology is a structured yet flexible approach to Information System delivery.

System Development Life Cycle Model (SDLC Model)


This has the following steps :

• System/Information Engineering and Modeling
• Software Requirements Analysis
• Systems Analysis and Design
• Code Generation
• Testing
• Maintenance

System/Information Engineering and Modeling : As software is always of a large system (or business), work begins by establishing requirements for all system elements and then allocating some subset of these requirements to software. This system view is essential when software must interface with other elements such as hardware, people and other resources. System is the basic and very critical requirement for the existence of software in any entity. So if the system is not in place, the system should be engineered and put in place. In some cases, to extract the maximum output, the system should be re-engineered and spruced up. Once the ideal system is engineered or tuned, the development team studies the software requirement for the system.

Software Requirement Analysis : This is also known as feasibility study. In this phase, the development team visits customers and studies their system. They investigate the need for possible software automation in the given system. By the end of the feasibility study, the team furnishes a document that holds the different specific recommendations for the candidate system. It also includes the personnel assignments, costs, project schedule, and target dates. The requirements gathering process is intensified and focused specially on software. To understand the nature of the program(s) to be built, the system engineer ("analyst") must understand the information domain for the software, as well as required function, behavior, performance and interfacing. The essential purpose of this phase is to find the need and to define the problem that needs to be solved .

System Analysis and Design : In this phase, the software development process, the software's overall structure and its nuances are defined. In terms of the client/server technology, the number of tiers needed for the package architecture, the database design, the data structure design etc are all defined in this phase. A software development model is created. Analysis and Design are very crucial in the whole development cycle. Any glitch in the design phase could turn out be very expensive to solve in the later stage of the software development. Much care is taken during this phase. The logical system of the product is developed in this phase.

Code Generation : The design must be translated into a machine-readable form. The code generation step performs this task. If the design is performed in a detailed manner, code generation can be accomplished without much complication. Programming tools like Compilers, Interpreters, Debuggers are used to generate the code. Different high level programming languages like C, C++, Pascal, Java are used for coding. With respect to the type of application, the right programming language is chosen.

Testing : Once the code is generated, the software program testing begins. Different testing methodologies are available to unravel the bugs that were committed during the previous phases. Different testing tools and methodologies are already available. Some companies build their own testing tools that are tailor made for their own development operations.

Maintenance : Software will definitely undergo change once it is delivered to the customer. There are many reasons for the change. Change could happen because of some unexpected input values into the system. In addition, the changes in the system could directly affect the software operations. The software should be developed to accommodate changes that could happen during the post implementation period.

Omni-Net takes every care to ensure that the software development by us satisfies our client's requirements. The only way to ensure that is to perform quality assurance throughout the software life cycle. We involve quality engineers in the early phases of a project to participate in requirements elicitation and analysis, to ensure that our quality assurance team understands the business objectives and the detailed requirements. This understanding enables the team to develop a comprehensive quality assurance plan for the project that includes the following elements:

• Test Plan and Test Cases - We develop a complete testing plan based on the requirements. The test plan includes unit, integration and system testing. It also includes all the test cases that typically cover functionality, error handling, performance, scalability, and fail over, among other required tests. The test plan and test cases are validated with the client during the early stages of a project, and are refined and enhanced during the downstream activities.
• Trace ability Matrix - During the software life cycle we trace the requirements to the design components, to the code modules, and to the test cases. This enables us to track changes to the requirements and to validate the test plan that covers all requirements and all design elements.
• Peer reviews of designs and code - Depending on the size and duration of a project, we conduct design and code reviews with engineers. These reviews provide an opportunity for valuable feedback and independent perspective.
• Acceptance Plan - At the beginning of each iteration of a project, we develop a detailed acceptance plan that describes all the expected deliverables during or at the end of the iteration. The client signs off on the acceptance plan to indicate agreement on the expected results.

The quality engineers staffed on a project are responsible for implementing, tracking and adjusting the quality assurance plan to make sure that it is completed successfully by the delivery date. They often use test automation tools to help them in conducting the required testing and establishing a complete regression test suite for the product that is as automated as possible.