Blueprint
Highlights
- SaaS-based business intelligence solution, which provides a platform and tools to drive intelligent business automation and IT alignment
- Automates manual tasks and removing process bottlenecks
- Reduces the risks by automatically tracing relationships
- Improves efficiency by enabling artifact repository
- Maintains a reliable system of record
- Integrates with external Agile and DevOps tools
Challenge
Blueprint’s CTO contacted SoftTeco with a request to help them with Storyteller admins’ panel development. A team of 2 backend developers, 2 frontend developers, 1 QA, 1 PM was assigned to meet the initial customer’s requirements. A trial version was provided quickly. Relying on this experience, a few enhancements were brought in the development process.
A new methodology implemented allowed to reach higher level in the development. Due to the success in task completion, the customer had decided to expand the team
and it became three times larger. SoftTeco was responsible for the full development cycle:
- Requirements clarification
- Technical Design
- Quality Assurance
- Business Analysis
- Implementation
- Technical Support
Solution
Storyteller was created to help enterprises scale to Agile and enjoy the clear alignment between the business goals and IT deliverables. Storyteller is a feature-packed solution that provides visual modeling, automation and standardization of numerous manual processes, an option to reuse artifacts and many others. The main benefit of the solution is seamless task management and easy assignment tracking alongside the convenient creation of the requirements. Advanced functionality and intuitive design make Storyteller the leading product on the market.
Tech Stack
Backend
MS SQL
NUnit
ASP.NET Web API
Frontend
Angular
RxJS
Jasmine
TypeScript
SCSS
Karma
GoJS
Webpack
How it works
Backend details
ASP.NET Web API was used as a backend platform. The application uses the basic protocols and formats – HTTP, WebSockets, SSL, JSON, and XML. The application architecture is organized on the three-level basis (Controller-Service-Repository). All application modules are complied with the principles of SOLID which maintains good flexibility and scalability. MS SQL Server DBMS is used for databases management. The application code has high test coverage. We handled the unit and integration tests and, due to their simultaneous use, achieved the maximum level of components’ reliability. The basic technology used for tests is NUnit. This tool is an open testing environment for .NET applications which is convenient for creating automated tests.
Frontend details
The project consisted of two modules: administration portal and a separate module. The portal is the main product for creating business process artifacts, when the module is responsible for reviewing business processes. The library of common angular-shared components was created to ensure the appropriate behavior of shared components in all modules and helped to reduce the development time afterwards. The technology stack was as follows:
- Angular: 6. *
- Typescript: 2.8.2
- RxJS: 5. *
Ngx-formly library was used for forms creation. The canvas-based gojs library was used to build the complex interactive diagrams. The code was covered with unit tests via jasmine and karma. The angular-shared code coverage was 80% for the common components, and at least 60% – for the rest of сode base. The project was built using webpack version 3. Code minifiers and obfuscators, postcss, rollup were configured. Linters were implemented to make work easier for both teams involved in the project:
- tslint – for typescript code
- stylelint – for scss styles
- htmlhint – for html markup
That allows to keep the code in the same style, alongside with code readability improvement and members entering process simplification.
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Results
The successful collaboration of BluePrint and SoftTeco resulted in a unique product management system – Storyteller. A well-coordinated team of 18 people met all customer’s requirements on the frontend and backend parts. In September 2018, the collaboration with SoftTeco was temporarily stopped.
