Software Development

People both inside and outside IT often ask what software development is. It is a process to create computer software using specific programming languages that provide the functionality to address particular business or personal objectives. The development of software is usually a planned initiative with several steps and stages that result in operational software creation. Hence a good definition is: “a process with a set of activities that create computer software products, including their design, development, testing, and deployment.” The software itself is a set of instructions or programs that tell a computer what to do. It is independent of hardware and makes computers programmable.