How To Make Software Development More Efficient?
Software maintenance claims a large proportion of organizational resources
. It is considered that many maintenance problems derive from inadequate software development practices. This article focuses on software complexity and describes the efficient software development methodologies. Software complexity is a key intermediate variable that links design and development decisions to their downstream effects on software maintenance.
Software Complexity
The term software development complexity is often applied to the interaction between a program and a programmer working on some programming task. Software can be simplified by building a foundation framework from which new models can be created; that hides most complexity and allows users of the higher layers to focus only on the semantics of the problem they intend to solve.
Software Construction Cycle
Earlier, software cycles included:
Analysis
Design
Coding
Testing
Implementing
Today, this has become more complex by the introduction of steps like Use Cases writing (for refining Analysis of Requirements), Quality Assurance, and Defect Management, Unit testing, Integration Testing and several others. Microsoft developed its well known .NET Framework, which is a collection of patched components on top of its old technologies, rather than redoing it from scratch.
Features of Efficient Software Development
Framework
A programmed framework is the first step toward efficient software development. It must generate any live component or object with which the user will interact.
Dynamic Typing
A very strong typing is needed in languages that require tons of code, as the simplest typing mismatch can cause catastrophic results. However, when a software development company creates a component is created in a smart way, optimizing its code pieces and minimizing redundancy of code, dynamic typing lets programmers direct coding in faster and easier ways; and if it comes with smaller code pieces, the possible "mismatches" can be easily caught and fixed.
The Web Explorer and HTML as the Key
Today most of the web explorers are capable of recognizing most users" data needs. They can handle video, music, pictures, text, and even geometric figures. This is possible because the web explorer does not have any hard coded component, but rather has functions that dynamically recognize HTML tags and applies an existing behavior to them accordingly. The demand for .NET has lessened as we can rather create smart JavaScript objects that take care of dynamically generating any HTML piece a web explorer can easily recognize and treat accordingly.
Reusability
Reusability is another important concept of Object Oriented Programming overseen in the latest development tools. It minimizes the need of programming the same set of functions or properties multiple times without needing to repeat them. Even then today"s programmers of any software development company don"t take advantage of reusability properly, and instead insert tons of repeated and redundant code. These mechanisms make the software projects more expensive and require more efforts to complete the projects.
The Simplification Advantage
The programmers can simply specify the business parameters by creating solid, smart objects that can dynamically interpret predefined protocols based on a robust framework. This logic requires special treatment and additional coding. Two major candidates of a good framework are:
CRUD system that can handle any CRUD entity (Create, Read, Update, Deactivate).
Reporting system (not the "Crystal" or "Reporting Services" like, as the programming behind them is still unnecessarily complex for the most basic and common reporting needs).
In short, the main features of efficient software development are:
It"s true reusability of objects.
It"s true application of the "black box" concept.
It"s truly taking advantage of current lowering of cost of memory and hard disks.
Its true elegant/clever programming techniques.
Advantages of Efficient Software Development
Lesser visual programming.
Software projects get accomplished in shorter times, with smaller development teams.
Smaller defects and consequently smaller need of "defect tracking".
Faster change maintainability.
Conclusion
When all that happens, software projects will get done in shorter times and at significantly reduced costs.
by: Holly Maxted
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