Company Overview

Lido Services has the following core competencies:

Analysis
Lido Services takes the time to understand your business requirements. We know that understanding a problem is the key to solving it. By carefully analyzing your project's vision and goals, we create complete business and technical requirements definitions. We also understand that requirements evolve throughout the development process. Managing these changes is crucial to successful and timely completion. "Requirements creep" can seriously impact the Design, Implementation, Validation, and ultimately, Schedule and Cost. A careful, thorough Analysis flows seamlessly into the Design.

Design
Lido Services employs the latest tools and techniques to ensure your software is designed to fulfill your requirements. Unified Modeling Language (UML) diagrams coupled with industry standard Design Patterns allow us to craft models that can be utilized by technical, as well as non-technical personnel. User scenarios and prototypes provide early feedback that confirm or help refine the requirements. The relationships and interactions among the subsystems (Detailed Design), as well as the product to it's environment (Context), are clearly defined. A clear, concise, complete Design flows seamlessly into Implementation.

Implementation
With a thorough understanding of the Requirements and a clear Design, there should be few surprises here. The Implementation is a concrete expression of the Design. Some of the tools we employ partially automate the Implementation directly from the Design. This reduces time and costs, and improves traceability, reliability and confidence. In addition to the actual business code, the Implementation also includes Unit and Integration Test code. This provides incremental, fine-grained validation throughout this phase.

Validation
Far from being the final step, validation permeates the entire development process. The time to start thinking about testing a requirement is when you define it. Writing /testable/ requirements builds confidence that the product will meet your expectations. Validation of the Design can be accomplished by "running" the models through use cases and prototypes. "What if" scenarios can identify gaps and contradictions in the requirements. Validation of the Implementation is supported with Unit and Integration Tests. Performance parameters, extremes, fault tolerance, and timing conflicts are some of the issues that are considered here.