Steps in development of Business Application Software

Business application software is widely used to increase productivity of businesses. To develop software, the client company has to spend a greater amount from their budget. The vendor should have clarity of about the real need of the client, how they expect the software and for what purpose. Otherwise, valuable money and time will be lost.

Following are the steps mostly using while developing business application software.

• Requirement analysis: Requirement analysis is the first step in software development. First, you need to understand clearly the requirement of the software to the client. Here the interaction between the client and the developer along with the functional experts will be occurred. After made a clear structure move to the next one.

• Planning and design: After functional analysis is done, the software development project is split into the tasks. Every task will have a time period. As per that the development will be occurred. If the project is delays the budget will be increase. So the planning is crucial. Designing is building the architecture of the project. Here the possible wrongs will be minimized.

• Development: The Actual part of development starts here. The development is coding the software as per the architecture. When the tasks are completed merge them into a single program. If the architecture and the planning are properly done development become easy. The development will be depends upon the ability of the programmer to complete quickly and effectively.

• Testing: Testing will be done at different stages. In the beginning when the task is completed immediately one testing will be occurred. Second one is after merged the tasks. After at the time of project completion. At the time of implementation in front of client the testing completely done without errors.

• Documentation: Documentation is the guide about the software features. Here every option and feature of the software will be documented. It is easily understandable format and language.

• Training: If training is required to operate the software it will be provided to the employees at the time of implementation at the client. Mostly the documentation gives as material. When the employees are the functional experts, it is enough to give a brief of the functions and operations.

• Maintenance: Once the above all stages are passed without any issue the maintenance will be begun. Here the updates to the software will be provided. The updates are for newly discovered issues, extra/new requirements.

These are the common following steps to develop medium and large software applications.