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