Software Development (software engineering) — is the development of software, by using modern technologies, methodologies and practices from informatics, project management, mathematics, engineering, etc.

There are several different approaches to software development, much like the various views of political parties toward governing a country. Most methodologies share some combination of the following stages of software development:

• Analyzing the problem

• Market research

• Gathering requirements for the proposed business solution

• Devising a plan or design for the software-based solution

• Implementation (coding) of the software

• Testing the software

• Deployment

Maintenance and bug fixing

 

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