subject: A Brief Discussion On Software Development Metrics [print this page] The entire humankind is shifting from conventional style workmanship to a techno savvy work environment. We are emerging as a new breed of young, tech-savvy, small-by-design, agile, and innovative businesses. Software development markets are flourishing due to the increased need of software development services by IT companies.
In this article, various trends in software development services are discussed briefly.
Trends in Software Development
Some of the most important trends emerging within application software development are:
Cloud Computing
Cloud computing is developing to overcome the problems faced by offshore software development companies. Now the companies can leverage just the computing resources they need today. This enables the companies to:
1. increase capacity
2. license new software
3. train new personnel
Now the companies can compete with large companies at a reasonable and predictable cost. This is an example of virtualized computing platform.
Agile Development
Agile development processes enables to regulate management and daily programmer work and create good communication among the team. These processes along with including Scrum, test-driven development, and continuous integration are used in enterprise and smaller development shops.
Visual Studio 2010 supports unit testing and iteration planning processes in Agile. Agile management is for the development and management process of entire team.
Modern Scripting Language
1. Encourage good practices and methods.
2. Changing our attitude towards programming and program design.
Parallel Computing
3. An evolution of serial computing
4. Attempts to follow complex, interrelated events happening at the same time within a sequence.
These new trends utilize the inexpensive and widely-available desktop graphics processors for certain tasks. Their processing ability encourages them to perform complex computational tasks.
The trends indicated by ever faster networks, distributed systems, and multi-processor computer architectures (even at the desktop level) clearly show that parallelism is the future of computing.
Nowadays, programmers have the skills to write code that execute well in multi-core and many-core environment. Parallel computing is the simultaneous use of multiple compute resources to solve computational problem.
Conclusion
Today, commercial applications provide an equal or greater driving force in the development of faster computers. All these applications are carried out in sophisticated ways. These trends are prominent only in those areas where they are capable of moving software development forward. Till now these trends have grown in prominence as the key development technologies for the enterprise, and they are to accelerate in coming days. All these current trends are being evolving to take the era of technology to the next level. No wonder, all these trends are also meant to be changed for better. This will be instinct and something better will come into the place.
