Our Process

Five Steps to a 100% Success Rate

When it comes to building successful apps and websites, SolutionBuilt has an uncompromising focus on usability and quality assurance. The goal is to create a mobile app that works for our customer and their end-users. We take the time to truly understand your needs, the use cases of the app, and we help you design your app in our Solution Design process. Our process has worked for years and has yielded a perfect success rate in custom web and mobile app development projects.

The key to building a successful app or website is proper pre-planning, organization, and complete transparency. Our detailed app development process allows us to always deliver apps and websites with a 100% success rate. This means less rework and lower defect rates because we design everything prior to development. Our process ultimately delivers a lower total cost of ownership (TCO), as well as an increased end-user satisfaction level. Upon completion of the Solution Design phase we can start the app development process upon approval of the visual designs, and project plan with fixed time and cost.

Learn about our process for developing mobile apps and websites below:

Design

A unique, time tested and proven process is critical when designing your companies web and mobile technology.

Within the Solution Design phase, our team takes the time to understand your needs, recommends improvements and designs each page of your app to insure it meets you, and more importantly your users needs.

What you’ll get:

Strategy & Design: During this phase, we meet with you to gather requirements in a whiteboard session. Our team translates your ideas into a working app solution. We design every page of your app to walk you through each use case.
App Prototypes: We create prototypes to share with you, your stakeholders or enduser testing groups to share and test your app idea before we finalize the app requirements.
App Project Plan & Requirements: We then document all of the project artifacts and create a project plan with technology options and a fixed cost guarantee.

Development

Next, the magic happens and we move into the programming and coding phase. During this development phase, our team builds your app or website based on the pre-approved design and requirements.

During this phase, your app or website will progress through a 3-stage developmental life cycle:

Alpha Phase: This initial stage focuses on the core functionality of your app or website.
Beta Phase: Next, your app undergoes light testing and additional bug fixing. During this stage, the development is complete and any issues are addressed internally before sending you a build.
Release Phase: After the bugs are resolved, your app or website is ready for release.

Quality Assurance

Throughout this website and app development process, we integrate quality assurance for each release to ensure all requirements are met. Additionally, QA accounts can account for 20-50% of the project’s entirety depending on project complexity.

Our QA testing is completed before sending each build in our mobility lab on various mobile devices prior to client review and publishing.

The main stages of this phase include:

Usability Testing
Operational Testing
User Feedback
Acceptance Testing
In-depth Performance Testing
Regression Testing
Security Testing

Publishing

After the QA process is complete and you approve the build we publish your site from our dev environments to the live environment and/or App Stores.

Maintenance

SolutionBuilt offers website and mobile app maintenance to ensure your app stays up-to-date and secure. When an issue is critical in nature, we perform app maintenance updates immediately.

Most web and mobile projects require ongoing maintenance which allows for regular testing, updates and upgrades which helps with user acceptance.

This phase includes:

OS Updates
Framework Updates
Device Updates
Security Updates
Module Testing
Ongoing Maintenance
Device Updates

STEP 1: DESIGN

A unique, time tested and proven process is critical when designing your companies web and mobile technology.

Within the Solution Design phase our team takes the time to understand your needs, recommends improvements and designs each page of your app to insure it meets you, and more importantly your users needs.

What you’ll get:

Design: During this phase, we meet with you to gather requirements in a whiteboard session. Our team translates your ideas into a working app solution. We design every page of your app to walk you through each use case.
App Prototypes: We create prototypes to share with you, your stakeholders or enduser testing groups to share and test your app idea before we finalize the app requirements.
App Project Plan & Requirements: We then document all of the project artifacts and create a project plan with technology options and a fixed cost guarantee.

STEP 2: DEVELOPMENT