Software development

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Software development is the process of designing, programming, and documenting computer software.

Phases of software development:

• The initial phases of software development involve gathering software requirements and writing functional specifications defining what the software is expected to do.
• The next step is to design a solution. The solution is formalized in technical specifications documents, which are often ignored for smaller projects.
• The software is then written during the programming phase.
• During alpha, beta, and release candidate testing the software's major bugs are identified and fixed.
• After release comes software maintenance and feature additions.

Programming [edit]

• Programming languages
• Programming paradigms
• Data structures and Data types
• Performance
• Security
• Standards
• Web development

Process [edit]

• Best practices
• Bugs
• Documentation
• Security
• Software lifecycle
• Software review

See also: Category:Process

Tools [edit]

• Compilers
• Databases
• Frameworks
• Libraries
• Revision control
  • Subversion
• Text editors & IDEs