Consilia is Customer-Oriented Software Development Company

Before the project's realization, we carefully analyze whether and what technologies can fulfill all the requirements, including manufacturability and production costs.

For such an analysis, we need certain inputs from the customer – e.g., technical requirements, target cost, and schedule.

We consider the design of SW architecture a vital part where we spend reasonable effort at the early stage and save many costs later.

We sketch up the layers of the software, suggest the functional blocks and define relations between them.

In some cases, we create a fast prototype that shows us (and the customer, of course) if the system architecture candidate has a great chance to fulfill the key functionalities and requirements.

On such a POC (Proof of Concept), we also test and measure critical points, e.g., mechanical stability, system responsiveness, data throughput capability, and power consumption.

Based on software architecture, we create detailed data flow models where we exactly see if it fits the requirements.

We use the output of this phase as a basis for creating the modules/units and the unit test plan.

Many marketing models can be realized in multiple ways.

We always analyze multiple solutions or concepts to stimulate a sort of internal competition among them and to select the best of them.

We implement the software using a revision control system extensively. We have had very deep experience with Git for many years.

When merging the feature branches into master branch, the system assists us especially at code reviews.

Our team internally takes care of the unit tests.

We use the unit tests to debug the unit/module at the lowest possible level, which is for us one of the most cost-saving ways to stable and reliable software.

In projects where the Agile approach is selected as the best, we make vertical integration of the components together to get a visible feature or functionality every one or two weeks.

That enables the product owner to track whether the project is going straightforward and to disclose potential critical path as soon as possible.

Cooperation of the software and hardware team is our strong arm.

Our hardware colleagues are highly experienced in creating our own hardware modules and planning hardware/software interface in advance.

Therefore, we usually perform hardware/software integration seamlessly and avoid finding critical system bugs too late.

As a part of the vertical integration, we test the system features based on the feature test plan.

When appropriate, we create our own test system and implement the tests so that they can be reused and repeated at any time.

When adding and implementing new features, we test the existing ones as well to keep the whole system working reliably in all its parts. Basically, regression tests are for us feature tests repeated on a regular basis.

Therefore, we reuse the test system and test cases from the feature tests.