Utopian Hotel Collection
London, UK
Utopian Hotel Collection is a platform dedicated for luxury hotels booking. Users can book their stays in luxury hotels grouped by the highest rankings of standards.
Client & Challenge
This case study is special in many terms, but most of all in terms of the situation to be handled. The client reached out to us after the previous dev company failed to deliver in terms of quality and deadline, which makes is a legacy project. In particular, the client complained about the slowly working website and constant crashes, as well as layout full of bugs. At a glance it may not sound as a very unique situation, but in the addition the client decided to set up his own development team and needed a company that will refactor the whole application, repair it, implement outstanding features and prepare it for the upcoming team who were meant to kick off from September 2018, but started forming earlier. Therefore, our job was to not only finish what the previous team failed to deliver, but also to prepare the application and its code in a way that will make it easy for the new team to start working with it.
Solution
We started with thorough analysis of the current technological situation and code audit, which discovered a lot of inconsistencies and errors in the code and overall architecture, which were causing constant crashes and were also slowing down the site. Following the audit results, we had to refactor the major part of the application, implement the outstanding features, prepare everything for the new team and conduct a step-by-step handover.
Results
- The application stopped to crash and started working correctly
- The work has been successfully handovered to the client’s development team
- The application working time has been significantly improved – the slow work issue was resolved
Since the client was happy with our performance, we remain in good relationship, while users of Utopian Hotels website are now easily travelling around the world without a threat of being interrupted by poorly working website.