TEMPLATE BASED FRAMEWORK FOR RAPID FAST DEVELOPMENT OF ENTERPRISE APPLICATIONS

Srinivasa Varma Mantena, G.P. Saradhi Varma, Syamala Rao P

Abstract: High Quality Deliverables in Shortest duration is the key to win any future software business opportunities. Every Software Organization wants to achieve this but suffers problems like Delayed deliverables, Customer complaints, Poor Quality deliverables, Poor Turnaround time, Rework, Lack of time for reviews, Maintenance nightmares, resource dependencies, complex technology frameworks resulting slow learning curve, and challenges dealing with resources. Automation is the key to many of the problems; however, regular automation cannot address the issues of most commercial or enterprise applications at global level. Needs of every application is different making automation tough. There are many frameworks and custom standards available setting the expectations for development team, but considering complexity, it is practically impossible to ensure consistency of implementing the set expectations considering typical human ignorance tendencies. Other alternative for Software Organizations is to make use of Specific Tools available from market. Most Automation tools are expensive and are catered design only specific category of problems. On the other side, Organizations making use of automation tools from market end up getting into a Vendor Lock for upgrades, maintenance, highly expensive consultant costs and support. This paper provides a Framework which can significantly address these challenges of Software Organizations. Irrelevant of technology area, most applications are database driven. Every operation that gets done on UI or through a service will have to be reflected in database. Considering specific needs of application or organization standards, an initial working flow (UI, Controller, Service, DAO) will be prepared by an expert for all levels of the framework to be used. Once the working flow is prepared, a template will be generated based on that. Template will be applied for all tables in database.

Keywords: Automation, Development Framework, Productivity Improvement, Template based development, Server Side Development

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2014.0301035