Wait!! More about Software Development?

There’s more…

There are Software Development Processes that help to plan and manage better the software that is going to be developed. Usually, industries use them to develop and
maintain an application. Each process has its own methodology; and each new process
pretends to be better than the old ones.

The most famous processes are:

Waterfall
Prototyping
Incremental
Spiral
Agile

Agile vs Waterfall

There are big differences between these methodologies, but at the end developers use both daily. Usually there’s no preference for one or another, you just do what you have to do…

At the end…

We end up with a piece of software that give us some kind of satisfaction when we use it. That is what software has become, a part of our lives that days before wasn’t even planned like that. People change, technology change and we keep updating our world just to improve our lifestyle.

Resources:

https://www.versionone.com/agile-101/

http://www.tutorialspoint.com/sdlc/sdlc_overview.htm

https://www.vikingcodeschool.com/software-engineering-basics/a-brief-history-of-software-engineering

There’s a cycle for Software too…!!!

I don’t know why everything in this life has a cycle, but anyway, I will talk about another cycle in this blog. The Software Development Life Cycle! ???

This cycle is used in the software industry to develop high quality products and at the same time satisfy the client. Basically it consists on planing ahead everything, so the work could be done easily.
The basic steps are:

Planning: it shows only the technical approaches of the future program.
Defining: this process meant to document every requirement.
Designing: as the name said, it’s to design the architecture of the software.
Building: here is where the developement starts, by starting to build the software.
Testing: by testing the software, you will have an answer and opinions of it.
Deployment: finally you deliver the product and maintain it.

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Resources:

http://www.tutorialspoint.com/sdlc/sdlc_overview.htm

https://www-01.ibm.com/software/support/lifecycle/

History and Improvement of Software Development

Normally we use our electronic devices every single day of our lives. We use our mobile applications, play with our computers or even argue about the new technology. But, have you ever think about the past? How did people live without a smartphone? Or what we did to evolve from nothing to today’s technology?

A little bit of history…

There was a time were programs were only instructions to manipulate physical devices, but today software is everything to the world. Basically, without the software, our devices are obsolete.

Late in the 50’s and 60’s, programmers didn’t interact directly with computers. For making mathematical operations they delivered their programs to a technician, which returned the results some hours later. Here is where programming languages started. The FORTRAN (by IBM) and the COBOL (by the US Department of Defense) were the first programming languages used for engineering and business applications; but their effectiveness was not the best, normally they took a long time to give results, leading to loss of time and budget. This started the “Software Crisis”!!

But fortunately, in 1968 a conference (NATO) took place to find a solution to these problems.Here, the term Software Engineering was created. Their solution was to use practices of traditional engineering applied to software. More about Software Engineering

After this, the BOOM of software development started. The 70’s saw the growth of interfaces, that allows the developer to break the project into pieces. Then the 80’s gave birth to the famous “object-oriented programming”, that changed the way a user interact with the computer, by the Graphical user interface (GUI); now the device was more
friendly and easy to use.

But there were also bad things. Apparently the improvement on the hardware led to more software developers, but bad code writing.

What…Bad Coding?!

Yes! Bad code

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