subject: Describing In 8 Simple Steps The Web Application Development Process [print this page] In this article we will try and discuss the steps and requirements of web application development processes. Here I will describe you the processes in eight simple steps.
1st - The Roadmap Doc: This is an initial doc where the purpose, goal and direction of procedure will be defined. This document usually comes from the client, where all the requirements and available details (before the development process) are clearly mentioned. As the following steps are mentioned clearly, the roadmap doc helps a developer to setting up goals and achieving them.
2nd - Researching and defining audience scope: In this doc, the results of researches and studies conducted on target audience are documented. It also says what can be an overall impact of the app and how far will it be accepted by the end users. This doc is also meant to be produced by the client. One such doc carries information of "type of audience for usability purposes", "type and level of access", "type of audience for planning the security level" and "quantitative statistics on audience".
3rd - Functional Specifications Doc: This is a key document for web software development. This document will list all of the functionalities and technical specifications that a web application will require to accomplish. This may be a tedious job to document all the functional specification of a huge project in a document, however, this can help the developers to know what needs to be done after or before what. The doc will also document all the efforts taken in regular intervals succession the completion. This feature summary doc helps in preventing any future confusion or misunderstanding that may occur in a huge project.
4th - Selecting, analyzing and indentifying third party vendors: This is a task to be done by a company which is involved in web software development. A web application may need third party tools to be integrated. But before that, developers need to identify the vendors offering the right kind of tools. Analyzing all the available options and finalizing the perfect one is also necessary. Products and services such as server, network, firewall, load balancer equipment, SSL certificate, fulfillment centers etc. need to be checked and verified.
5th - Selecting technologies and technical specifications: This doc lists the technologies that are to be used in the particular web software development. The doc will work as the blueprint of the whole process defining the platform, development environment, web application etc.
Apart from the said five steps the other three steps include "finalizing the design layout", "developing the web application and 'beta testing and bug fixing".
