Nexpur

30/10/2024

Case study: Smart Classroom application for Samsung

This is the realization of Samsung's vision to improve the educational process—a tailor-made solution that dramatically increases productivity for both teachers and students!

Objectives
Online educational platform for content exchange and interaction between students and teachers. This platform aims to revolutionize education, through the development of an interface between teachers, students and administrators.

Functionalities
for Teachers
• Split their students into groups
• Communicate messages & resources
• Create learning plans
• Administer test and homework
• Set grades and deadlines

for Students
• Use uploaded materials
• Upload homework and tests
• Work under time limit and get automatic grading

Results
Smart Classroom brings education into the digital age. The platform is used in more than 450 schools by more than 2500 teachers.

Deployed technologies
• HTML 5
• CSS3 • JavaScript
• jQuery
• Bootstrap
• C #
• AJAX
• ASP.NET
• MSSQL

28/10/2024

Case Study: custom development of mobile application for Maggi

Objectives
The app enables the redesign of product purchases in innovative ways. This includes the design of meal plans, categorization, and creation of shopping lists. The development of this app was also designed to facilitate the search for products and the use of scanners to find products.

Functionalities
• User accounts allowing rating, favorite features as well as adding sharing, commenting recipes
• Recipe categorization by type of meal, occasion, rating
• Search by type, prep time, ingredients
• Create meal plan as well as shopping list
• Fridge - this functionality allows the user to search for recipes by typing in available ingredients.
• Maggi scanner - the user can scan the barcodes of Maggi products and browse through recipes that include them
• Maggi tips - publications from Maggi authors with tips and tricks from the trade

Results
The results demonstrate a continuously growing database of over 1600 recipes. An easy-to-use content management system for administration by Nestle. Great top user experience, as the app can be personalized according to the users’ needs. Nestle is able to extract in-depth analytic features, boost sales, and discover consumer behavior.

Deployed technologies
• Objective-C
• Java
• ASP.NET
• WCF
• MSSQL

24/10/2024

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12/05/2022

Have you ever been in one of these situations where integrating new features becomes increasingly difficult or the product's ability to function as predicted decreases in the long way of constant product development?

These can be indicators that the project would benefit from a greater emphasis on code quality, which refers to the set of requirements that apply to all software projects. Readability, maintainability, modularity, performance, and security are all critical characteristics of any software.

Here are 5 of the code quality factors that can be checked automatically to improve the code’s quality:

1. Readability

According to Robert C. Martin in Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship, "the ratio of time spent reading versus writing in development is well over 10 to 1." This makes code readability an important part of development productivity.

Some examples of easy-to-automate checks that enhance readability include:

· Avoid confusing language constructs

· Keep documentation consistent and up to date

· Adhere to a consistent coding style

2. Performance

While profiling and stress testing a system are essential to properly understand application performance, static code analysis can detect performance anti-patterns. Examples:

· Checking for code that can be moved outside loops

· Looking for concurrency problems that may leave certain threads stuck

· Avoiding unnecessary map lookups.

3. Reliability
Static analysis techniques can detect several reliability concerns within individual components:

· Data race conditions in multi-threaded code can cause many unexpected behaviors

· Null pointer exceptions can cause crashes and, in some cases, lead to denial-of-service vulnerabilities

· Improper or incomplete exception handling can result in unexpected behavior in edge cases



4. Security
Weaknesses that automated static scanning can detect:

· Weak cryptography

· Insecure framework configurations

· Hard-coded passwords, keys, and other security tokens

· API keys and more

5. Dependency Management
On average, open-source dependencies comprise 90% of software applications generated by third parties as part of the software supply chain. This means that the majority of your application's performance, reliability, security, and other quality attributes are inherited from these third-party dependencies. As a result, it's vital to carefully assess which libraries you use and to keep an eye on your application's dependencies for security vulnerabilities.

12/04/2022

During the COVID-19 pandemic, businesses transformed their operations by using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technology to automate many of their core business processes. According to a survey published by the MIT Sloan Management Review, by 2023, 58 percent of firms expect that AI would have a significant impact on their business models. Machine learning and artificial intelligence solutions are being developed and tuned to handle specific problems and automate countless manual operations.

These rapidly growing technologies are changing the way software developers work, allowing them to produce higher-quality software more quickly. The possibilities for deploying and experimenting with these technologies are limitless.

Here are three examples of the latest AI/ML trends in software development.

04/04/2022

APIs, or application programming interfaces, are a fundamental building component for practically all sorts of modern software development.

APIs allow developers to connect many services and information sources within an application using a programmatic approach. They can be obtained from almost any form of data source and are utilized as modular components in software applications and services.

A study by MuleSoft shows that 98% of organizations now use public and/or private APIs, up from 96% a year ago. More than a quarter of business leaders (26%) are making an API strategy an imperative, almost double the figure from 12 months ago.

Despite all of the advantages that APIs provide to companies and developers, there are still challenges that must be handled.

According to 45 percent of the 28,000 respondents from around the world, the main difficulty is a lack of time, with one-third claiming it takes one week to one month to conceive, implement, test, and deliver an API to a production environment. The next two most common barriers to API ex*****on are API complexity and a lack of knowledge.

To get the maximum benefit, software developers and the companies that employ them should adhere to several fundamental best practices:

Take a design-first approach - meaning that developers describe every API in a way that both humans and computers can understand, all before a line of code is written.

Treat APIs as a product- To drive successful API programs, the APIs need to have clear and measurable business value.

Manage APIs with integrated tooling. – organizations must use an integrated set of tooling, including API design tools, testing, and monitoring

29/03/2022

Software development is a never-ending process in which businesses need to invest continuously to satisfy their growing digital needs.

It's simple to demonstrate software problems caused by new hardware. Consider the Android smartphone market: there are many screen sizes, resolutions, hardware configurations, and chip architectures available. It's obvious that applications designed for older smartphones won't work on newer ones, causing them to crash, display a distorted UI, or take a long time to load.

Any device your software runs on, whether it's a server, a PC, a tablet, or a smartphone, has an operating system that needs to be updated on a regular basis. Each new OS version has the potential to damage your code.

There isn't software out there that doesn't use third-party libraries and frameworks. What's the point of reinventing the wheel? While they are unquestionably valuable, they add another layer of software dependency and ongoing updates to address bugs, security, and architectural issues.

APIs, like libraries and frameworks, change and are updated on a regular basis. If an API owner makes a breaking change to it, such as eliminating a parameter or modifying the endpoint's URL, the integrators must be notified in advance.

User behavior and needs will certainly vary over time. Businesses must be quick to respond for their products to reflect this. Once you’ve started the software development, there’s no going back. When planning a project keep in mind it’s impossible to develop evergreen software and forever keep the cost within the initial budget.

21/03/2022

Software development cost estimation is inherently tricky, keeping in mind the fact that “no projects are the same”. Every product development is unique in what it sets out to achieve. Whether you're a startup or an established business, you should be aware that the cost and duration of your project can either make or break your future plans and objectives. To calculate the cost of software development; understand that it majorly depends on three significant factors:

1. Type of project – whether you require new custom software, enhancements to current software, or the addition of custom code, each type comes with a different team makeup and requires an additional amount of development effort.

2. The size of the project is the next crucial factor to consider. This is usually determined by the features and functionalities of the product you're creating - the more complex your project is, the bigger the size of your project will be.

3. After your project has been defined in terms of type and size, the only significant aspect that can directly affect your software development cost is the size of your development team. Your project will require at least a developer, project manager, and a QA tester.

14/03/2022

Security scanning in software development is performed to identify different classes of vulnerabilities in applications. According to research made by software development company - Veracode, most applications are now scanned three times per week, up from two or three times per year a decade ago. Between 2010 and 2021, the average scan cadence increased 20x. "Scanning with a variety of testing tools must happen continually as a completely integrated part of the process” stated Chris Wysopal, CTO at Veracode.

04/03/2022

Recognizing and responding to trends, as well as anticipating and preparing for both expected and unexpected attacks, has always been at the core of cybersecurity. In 2022, software development security teams should focus on protecting their software supply chains, as well as deploying SBOM and zero trust. As a result, developers will stay ahead of critical tendencies instead of falling behind.

22/02/2022

This new reality demands a review of software engineering professionals' assumptions for 2022, as well as plans to modernize their teams, procedures, and tools to address the four basic pillars of software engineering: Developer experience; Developer workflow automation; Security and compliance; Deployment and operations.

Based on these pillars, experts have predicted 7 software development trends that will be key in 2022 and that software engineering leaders should consider:

03/02/2022

Scrum has become the most popular methodology as it checks all the boxes that a good Agile framework should. Scrum assists businesses in achieving their business goals and stimulates creativity and innovation.

Some may argue that these benefits are present in other Agile frameworks as well. Nonetheless, amid all the other Agile frameworks, such as Kanban, Scrum has managed to maintain its position as the most popular agile framework.

This methodology has benefited not only the software development business, but also the military, government, universities, manufacturing companies and agencies.

Scrum is a high-productivity enabler because it helps teams stay focused and transparent with one another, as well as to collaborate, communicate, take ownership, and stay motivated. The reasons why we most often apply Scrum at Nexpur are ability to manage changing priorities; better visibility into projects; more alignment between business and IT and a faster time to market.