Software platforms evolve and change over time, and your core software applications need to evolve as well. MagRabbit has completed the complex and innovative application porting projects for clients that wanted to extend the use of their software to one or more additional platforms, such as migration into the Salesforce cloud environment.
We have the ability to conduct porting from any source platform to any target platform. The following general steps are typically involved in the design and development of these projects:
MagRabbit has developed a rigorous scientific approach to porting complex software platforms. The following is a summary of key considerations addressed during each project.
MagRabbit's design team will first research the source platform version and determine any user-model idiosyncrasies that will cause concern during the software port. In situations where an obvious solution is not provided, the possible solutions are presented to the client with explanations and comparisons.
In conducting research on any application porting project, our team will carefully distinguish between the Core and Platform Functionality of an application as follows:
Although these two definitions are independent, most platform-specific code bases have inadvertently combined the two types in classes and routines for speed or ease of use. During this research phase, these areas are identified since they will need work to either (a) port them to the new platform as a whole, or (b) separate them into their core and platform dependent parts and port only the platform code.
The larger the amount of Core Functionality in an application, the more efficient it is to port the application to another platform. As a result, our team will work to maximize the amount of code that can be incorporated into Core Functionality to ensure rapid and cost-effective results.
MagRabbit's design team will also determine the most efficient means for porting from one platform to another. In this respect, sometimes it is faster and more cost-efficient to port an application to an intermediate platform before porting to a target platform, rather than porting directly to a target platform.
MagRabbit's design team will choose between the following two possible porting methodologies, usually depending on whether or not backward compatibility is required by the client.
One very important factor in a project is knowledge transfer to the porting development team so that they have a complete picture of an application and can implement it right the first time.
MagRabbit team will install the source code of the application, and conduct reverse engineering, to make sure we know all the details of each function and can provide an accurate estimate of the project cost and completion schedule.
Once all the above issues have been addressed, MagRabbit will port a software application to the target platform in a manner that meets or exceeds the expectations of our client.
We continuously test the ported application throughout development and before shipping to ensure that we deliver software of the highest quality. We develop automation test cases as well as manual testing cases to ring out all the bugs to fix prior to deployment.
Once we have completed our internal testing of the software port, we ship the product to our client and they complete Acceptance Testing, prior to signing off on the product.
