What is involved in outsourcing software development?
When you’re selecting a vendor for outsourcing your software development needs, it is appropriate and necessary to ask for samples of the code that the vendors have developed for other clients, and then send those samples to expert programmers for assessment. Once you have selected a vendor, you must convey your company’s standards for coding, making sure that all the relevant requirements are specified in the contractual agreement. Your agreement should also require that prototypes or at least mock-ups of the software program be shared with you before the final coding begins. Ask the vendor about its policies and procedures for identifying, tracking, fixing, and managing software bugs, and be certain that you’ll have access to the bug reports during the software development process. If your vendor doesn’t have bug reports, you should provide a template and give it to the vendor with an expectation and/or contractual obligation that the vendor will complete the reports on a timely basi
