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Software development is the set of activities that results in software products. Software development may include research, new development, modification, reuse, re-engineering, maintenance, or any other activities that result in software products. Especially the first phase in the software development process may involve many departments, including marketing, engineering, research and development and general management."Mor01"> Joseph M. Morris (2001). Software Industry Accounting. p.1.10
The term software development may also refer to computer programming, the process of writing and maintaining the source code.
Overview
There are several different approaches to software development, much like the various views of political parties toward governing a country. Some take a more structured, engineering-based approach to developing business solutions, whereas others may take a more incremental approach, where software evolves as it is developed piece-by-piece. Most methodologies share some combination of the following stages of software development:
* Market research
* Gathering requirements for the proposed business solution
* Analyzing the problem
* Devising a plan or design for the software-based solution
* Implementation (coding) of the software
* Testing the software
* Deployment
* Maintenance and bug fixing
These stages are often referred to collectively as the software development lifecycle, or SDLC. Different approaches to software development may carry out these stages in different orders, or devote more or less time to different stages. The level of detail of the documentation produced at each stage of software development may also vary. These stages may also be carried out in turn (a “waterfall” based approach), or they may be repeated over various cycles or iterations (a more "extreme" approach). The more extreme approach usually involves less time spent on planning and documentation, and more time read more at » http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software+development
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