Software Maintenance

We develop software and also provide quality software maintenance service which is essential to let the software program run without errors which affect productivity and efficiency. It is always recommended to do regular software maintenance as it has immense benefits and the topmost benefit is cost saving. Hence, before we tell you about what type of software maintenance exactly is the services we provide it would be better to explain what all is covered in the maintenance and how it impacts your business firm.

Challenges

In fact, there are many challenges that come across while doing the software maintenance because it is usually observed that a normal lifecycle of software is approximately 10 years to fifteen years and if these are not updated or maintained for a long time then these become sluggish and slow. It is wise to conduct regular maintenance as it saves a lot of cost in the long run otherwise purchasing new software and syncing all data consumes lots of time and all the processes are again required to be adjusted with it.

What is software maintenance?

It is simply a process of updating, making changes and modifying the software as per the customer's requirement. Once the software is launched and working then this step of maintenance is required especially if any changes are required as per the feedback, boost up the performance or sort some issue faced on live working. It is an ongoing process and can be considered natural in any software development life cycle. It is a constant exercise where efforts are done to improve the overall functionality of the software and make it more efficient.

Software maintenance techniques are carefully chosen then strategies are worked upon with the stakeholders so that there is no negative impact on the live working. Any changes, updates or work are done on the beta version then testing is done to find out any glitches or bugs. Until and unless the bug is fixed or the issue is resolved the update is not rolled out. Hence, it is a difficult task that involves high levels of experience that we have.

The main aim of software maintenance is to keep the software running in good shape in the long run in order to keep everybody happy like users, customers and other related stakeholders. If you are thinking about whether software maintenance is really required? Then we would like to tell you that just creating any software and launching is not enough as it involves lots of steps and processes to build software hence a lot of cost is involved during this process. So, it is also critical to take care of it with constant monitoring because with each passing day there are lots of updates and bugs are introduced in the market and due to this reason it becomes important to keep the software updated and secured from the new threats.

What do we do in software maintenance?

We cover all types of software maintenance but majorly there are four types of maintenance we provide upfront including corrective software maintenance, preventive software maintenance, adaptive software maintenance and perfective software maintenance.

Corrective software maintenance

It takes years of experience to identify the gaps at the initial stage when the software is live and working. We have a team of professionals who have a keen eye to check and analyze the minute errors or bugs in the system and conduct preventive maintenance so that the bug is fixed or changes are made before any users notice it. There are chances when the software is developed and launched after beta testing there might be some glitches or features which are left out and appear only in the live working. Ultimately if the software works without errors and efficiently then it saves the business firms from negative impressions and reviews.

Perfective software maintenance

Perfective software maintenance means the addition of new features and updates as per the request of the stakeholders. It does not mean that the software lacks something but as per the requirement of the users, changes can be made by our team in the live software programming to make it better and perform well as compared to the previous version. For example, some users require some additional changes to be made or features to be added to the existing software which makes the whole software one of the best then this can be easily done by us. It may also involve removing non-essential features of the software program.

Preventive software maintenance

Unlike corrective and perfective software maintenance, preventive software maintenance includes making changes in the existing software by considering the future perspective changes so that the existing one is always workable in a long run without any lags or requiring major changes at one go. It is done with selective upgrades, adaptations, changes and editing. These are required otherwise the software will become outdated and sluggish after some time. Hence, we work on those issues as well which may not have a significant impact on the current version but may create problems after some time.

Adaptive software maintenance

Adaptive software maintenance is related to the change in technologies as well the policies which keep changing with time. It becomes essential to make the software workable as per the latest technology which may include changes related to syncing, operating platform, hardware, etc. Here, we make the desired changes so that the software adapts easily to the other technologies and devices such as integration of cloud storage, making it workable with multiple operating systems, enhanced security and in some cases hardware changes also.

No matter whether we have developed the software or it is pre-existing, we can smoothly carry out the software maintenance for all types of software and programs. We can instantly identify or trace, develop new changes, implement, carry out system testing, acceptance testing and deliver the better version as required by the stakeholders with complete syncing of all the changes which are carried out at all the stages with the business firm or client.