Our Services

• Experience managing complex software development projects since 1994, with experience using offshore development teams since 2001.
• The highest quality software engineering capability at a reasonable price, with specific experience building successful software applications.
• Predictable development capabilities that ensure the shortest and on-time product release schedule, alleviating time-to-market pressures.
• Flexible and incremental development processes that ensure the product delivered is the one the business wants.
• Our clients' 100% ownership of the software product intellectual property developed by Agilis Solutions.  No hidden software license or runtime fees are associated with our solutions.
• The benefits of working with a company whose senior-level on-site personnel relate directly to your business, are deeply involved in the technical solution, and facilitate close collaboration between the development team and the domain experts.

Some examples of our core development support services include

• Full Lifecycle Software Development
• Technology Migration
• Tool Development
• Software Maintenance

See our Case Studies page for specific client examples.

Quality Assurance Planning

Agilis Solutions provides services to create a comprehensive plan for product Quality Assurance by assessing the client's current application, analyzing where quality issues exist, prioritizing areas for testing, analyzing testing paths for functional testing, and estimating the level of effort and time needed to achieve agreed upon coverage targets.   Test planning generally concentrates the following areas, as appropriate to the specific client requirements: 

1. GUI-driven functional and regression tests,
2. Automated functional black-box testing of major components,
3. Unit tests, and
4. Performance and stress testing.

Test Automation Creation and Execution

Our test automation implementation process is tailored to blend with our client’s processes.  Agilis Solutions defines test cases and builds GUI-driven functional / regression tests using an automation platform chosen with the client, such as HP Quality Center and QuickTest Professional, CompuWare TestPartner, or vTask. In addition, Agilis Solutions uses tools such as Parasoft to automatically generate unit tests for integration with the client's build environment. Manually created unit tests may also be created.  Agilis Solutions will also build automated functional, black-box tests for application components.

Many software companies run into resource bottlenecks based on current staffing. As the application base grows, companies can find themselves steadily spending more time on maintenance and less on development. Agilis Solutions allows software companies to save their most critical resources for the most critical tasks. We will handle all routine software maintenance so the core development team can move on to the next release or critical new development projects.

Agilis Solutions can catalog new requests, isolate issues and generate test cases, address routine problems, or refer very specific verifiable requests to the core development team for resolution. We typically provide a maintenance team composed of a local Project Manager and engineers with development, QA, and test automation skills.

Our process improvement approach is based on four key principles: 

1. Appropriately involving client and internal personnel,
2. Prioritizing objectives and identifying risks to ensure that the most important gaps are discovered,
3. Keeping analysis and reporting simple and understandable, and
4. Striving for results that are actionable (recommendations that can then be implemented).

The basic framework of our approach starts with discovery and document review, process definition, and risk/objective identification; from which an overall project plan and objective is created.  Parallel activities of data gathering and development process analyses are then conducted through personal interviews with key stakeholders, process owners, and the individuals who implement or work with the process steps. From these analyses, a development process gap analysis is created. 

An analysis of communication processes is conducted in parallel, which yields a second gap analysis focused on communications. 

From these gap analyses we devise, document and present our recommendations.  The recommendations include actual examples of proposed changes that include collaboration and valued input from stakeholders.  Training on the new or changed processes is provided to key individuals in a train-the-trainer session.  Rollout and implementation is monitored for effectiveness for an interim period before success is declared.

We leverage our experience in software development, technology skills, and deliverable management practices along with an emphasis on building a productive partnership with the client project team.  Our role is to use our QA/Oversight and project management experience to act as a second set of eyes to identify potential issues and risks and suggest mitigation strategies.  We work with the project team to identify options, potential resources, and recommended steps for keeping the project on track.  We work internally to ensure project and program management thresholds are met, project objectives are met and approved processes are followed, and in reporting project progress to stakeholder groups as requested.