Software Development Life Cycle

India has emerged as a growing market for webtechnologies in their scope.
development. Companies around the world prefer toSoftware testing job involves evaluating the
outsource web services to India as India has a poolsoftware or application for various scenarios under
of web development companies and freelance webdifferent conditions. A tester job is to locate bugs in
developers who work at a very economical rate.the software being tested and report them for
There is an abundance of talent available forcorrection. Software testing is an important job in
developing websites on the latest technologies. Onesoftware development life cycle. If the project is a
can find experienced developers expretising in openlow risk project, experienced programmers can also
source technologies like PHP , .NET, Java etc.act as software testers. With high risk projects,
Companies vary in scale from big companies to smallthere is a team of test engineer for testing and
firms to freelancers. With web development, a newreporting bugs.
service called SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is anSoftware quality assurance involves monitoring and
essential part of the service. This includes methodsimproving software.QA testing jobs also involve
implemented for better ranking in search engines.verification of any agreed-upon standards and
Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) is aprocedures that needs to be followed. Quality
methodology for the development of a softwareassurance is a preventive method to ensure the
product. Software development activities includequality of the software before it is launched.
planning of project, requirement gathering, design,Web development has thrived tremendously in India
building/ coding, testing and maintenance.as foreign companies are outsourcing huge
Planning of project includes establishing business goals,development and maintenance work. The abundance
scope and timeline of the project. Client involvementof skilled labor has further increased the growth of
is most in this phase. Requirement gathering phaseweb development in India. Varieties of projects such
includes gathering project requirement and knowingas ecommerce website, plain static website, flash
about the users. Data gathering and user studies arewebsite or informative website are built in countless
done at this stage. At the next stage of design,numbers.
concept designs are built up. Various concepts areThere are number of courses offered by institutes
brainstormed by the design team and thenas well as organization for training young minds and
shortlisted, iterated and finalized. The next stepget them involved in this field. Software field is a field
involves coding/ building the software. Team ofwith endless scope and endless jobs.
software developers builds the software usingAre you geared up to start a software career?