Development Environment

Our development environment is aimed to provide transparency for all parties involved and a virtual workspace where multiple agents all over the world can work on the same project.

The following values play a vital role to ensure this:

• Transparency
  Insight of where a project stands at any point in time and the effort needed to get there.
• Robustness
  Tools to maintain the quality of the project, regardless of the location of the team members.
• Communication
  Tools to bridge the distance between us and our offshore partners. 
• Ownership of responsibility
  Clarifying who is responsible for a certain task. 
• Online
  The development environment should be accessible by everyone, anywhere.

Below is a simplified representation of our development environment. The green arrows represent the ideal path.

A request of the customer is entered in our issue and time tracking software. Our development partner gives feedback and a time estimate. After confirmation they start the necessary development and upload the work in our online source repository. The automated build server checks if the code is valid. After quality control by BMBO, the customer is able to view the updates on our test server. When accepted this is published on the live server.

We use the following tools to ensure the quality of your project:

• Online issue and time tracking software
• Subversion source code repositories
• Maven2, Nant  and Capistrano build scripts
• Teamcity build servers
• xUnit technologies to unit test applications
• Custom Test and Acceptance servers

Everything is hosted by trusted and specialized partners such as cvsdude.com , flexiscale.com and atlassian.com.

Read about our development method