Nowadays, it is hard to think of a successful business without online marketing. In the coming years, online marketing would be one of the best ways to tell the growth and success of your business. No matter what type of business you own, you will need mobile apps, software and online platforms as they have a high impact on the way customers reach out to you and buy your Products or Services.
Why software development:
Having a well-constructed platform can guarantee a huge enhancement in revenue. Here are the 5 top reasons why software development is important for your business:
- Promote your business
- Improve sales and service
- Direct communication
- Increase costumers’ engagement
- Helps in marketing your business
Software development is very important for businesses as it helps them distinguish from competitors and become more competitive. Software development can improve the client’s experiences, bring more feature-rich and innovative Products to market, and make setups more safe, Productive, and efficient.
Software Products can be considered as computer programs that are written on a specific platform, do a specific job and are installed in different environments.
Software Products may be developed for a specific customer or marketed as ready-made Products.
Software development involves a set of activities and processes that, once completed, ultimately lead to the Production of a software Product.
This may involve inventing, improving, choosing between different solutions, or writing software using common computer languages to meet the needs and applications defined in a given environment.
Choosing the right methodology for software development is one of the essential factors for the successful completion of development.
This article is an immersive overview of the software development process we use at IBS. It covers general steps.
Software development main processes:
Determining the need
Idea sources are abundant for software Products. These ideas may have come from research on your current and potential customers or may have been inspired by a third party. These ideas sometimes come from the shortcomings of your business. These requirements also include defining the resources needed to build the project.
Planning
The planning phase involves dividing up the list of tasks to be implemented during the app development process. Each task needs clearly defined requirements. Once these requirements are understood by developers, they will often estimate the time needed to complete each task, so that the tasks can be evenly distributed to ensure a balanced workload.
Design
The design phase is when requirements and feedback collected during the previous step are used to organize Products for further development
At this point, it is necessary to know enough about why a Product was created and its end users. Knowing who the ideal customer is, how old they are, what they do for a living, and other details enable to design properly.
Development
Now, the Product development life cycle has been brought to the technical side of the project. it may call it the coding step, during which everything is set up for creating an app or website. In other words, this is when the software development team gets hands-on with the infrastructure, frontend, and backend work.
Testing
testing makes everything perfect. It begins as soon as the previous step end and continues before a Product goes live.
testing goes in 3 levels:
- Requirement’s analysis: software is checked for conformity to the requirements defined at the validation stage.
- Test planning and execution: Test cases and strategies are developed for software modules.
- Defect tracking: All bugs are detected and troubleshot.
Maintenance
After the Product is introduced to the market, the development work is not finished. Customer needs are always changing. And when users start using your software, they will no doubt find bugs, request new features, and request different or more functions. So, to satisfy users, the software must always have the best performance.
Wrapping up:
Software Product development is an extensive, multi-step process that starts when the idea is born and continues when it is made into a full-blown solution.
IBS's six application development steps take your Product from preliminary research to deployment and maintenance. We work based on these 6 main steps. So, whether we are creating a web or mobile application, we follow these 6 steps.