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Some Basic Information:

What Is Application Development?

How many times have you heard it? There’s an app for that. The helpful suggestion offered by a friend who has just heard you complain about some mundane task you’d rather not have to spend your precious free time on in order to get it off of your to-do list.

An app is the common slang term for a software application or software program that can be run on a computer device to accomplish a task easier and more efficiently than we could do it ourselves as mere mortals. If you have a smartphone or computer tablet, you probably have used some game apps, news apps or even map apps to help you find the local coffee shop. Application development is the name of the profession that employs people who design, develop and deploy these computer applications.

Application developers have a computer programming background. As you might imagine, the reason it’s called application development instead of just computer programming is because there are many more steps involved before and after the actual writing of the computer program. All of those steps are very typical and are collectively called a systems development lifecycle.

Systems Development Lifecycle (SDLC)

The steps included in a systems lifecycle for developing a computer application are:

• Planning: Identifying a need, consideration of solution options, and possibly considering the features of competing applications.
• Analysis: Documenting the functional requirements for the app and anticipating potential problems that may be encountered.
• Design: Defining how the app will work and what features and components it will have.
• Construction: This is where the actual programming occurs using the requirements and design as a guideline.
• Testing: Try out the app looking for errors and confirming that documented requirements are met.
• Implementation: Making the app available for people to use.
• Support: Monitor user experience. Sometimes recommendations for revisions arise. If those recommendations are pursued, they will go through the lifecycle also.

Although the steps that should be taken in application design are always the same, the methods used to execute them can be different. The three most common types of application development methodologies are: waterfall development, agile development and Rapid Application Development (RAD).