Software development
Software Development
Software development (pronunciation: /ˈsɒftweər dɪˈvɛləpmənt/) is the process of conceiving, specifying, designing, programming, documenting, testing, and bug fixing involved in creating and maintaining applications, frameworks, or other software components.
Etymology
The term "software" was first used in 1958 in a paper by John W. Tukey. The term "development", in the context of software, began to become popular in the late 1970s and early 1980s with the rise of personal computers.
Related Terms
- Programming: The process of creating a set of instructions that tell a computer how to perform a task.
- Software Engineering: The application of engineering to the development of software in a systematic method.
- Software Testing: An investigation conducted to provide stakeholders with information about the quality of the software product or service under test.
- Bug Fixing: The process of identifying and removing errors from computer software.
- Application Development: The process of creating a computer program or a set of programs to perform the different tasks that a business requires.
- Framework: An abstraction in which software providing generic functionality can be selectively changed by additional user-written code.
- Software Component: A software unit that encapsulates a set of related functions (or data).
See Also
External links
- Medical encyclopedia article on Software development
- Wikipedia's article - Software development
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