Case studies

At IRCTC

Indian Railways Portal www.irctc.co.in is web interface for worlds No: 1 railway in the world (Indian Railways)

Issues

  • Performance, Scalability and reliability issues, were not able to keep the portal 24×7 (had several service breaks)
  • New feature addition was difficult
  • Web version, not supporting mobile interfaces
  • Difficulty in release management –Identifying the source code for the production release

Approach

  • Owned Code & Team
    • Modules Payment Gateway Integration
    • Web Services
  • Code Engineering ” Refactoring, Unit testing Automation
  • Migration to New Technology Strategy & Implementation

Solution

  • Engineering Process
    • Source code was identified from 25+ sources
    • Put in place Build and Version System
    • Code Reviews
    • Defect Tracking System