R&D Tax Credits for Software Development
This company develops specialized digital signage solutions requiring significant software development.
R&D Tax Credit Qualification for Software Development
Developers followed standardized but situationally adaptive and precise coding guidelines to generate code. The development cycle, or sprint, was an iterative time box in which a user story was accomplished in a span of a few weeks. During this time, the developer designed, coded, tested, and fully refined or optimized the user story. A simulation environment was also created to be an advanced computing platform with the capability of creating production-like environments for alpha testing. Once it passed simulation testing, it moved to limited testing in the field or beta testing. Analysis took place throughout the development life cycle. Each iteration involved the entire team and included full software development cycles. The requirements of a user story map to real-world scenarios framed the acceptance criteria of the project. The goal was to try out different conditions so programmers could write unit tests, one by one, to obtain insight at each stage so that the company could review the code base in small modular units. Once all iterations of the systematic testing process were completed, the product was released.
R&D Tax Credits with GOAT.tax
With our consultative approach to the research and development tax credit, we invest time understanding each client’s history, current business direction, and future growth objectives. Each year we re-evaluate a company’s ability to accept the tax credit and provide on-going recommendations to improve the R&D tax credits process.