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A cloud or on prem platform where your Software Development Lifecycle / SDLC can be managed effectively, delivering software version control alongside access to multiple software development and design technologies, helping development teams create secure robust resilient and well performing applications.

Enabling DevOps teams to plan effectively, work together better, and release product faster, using the full range of modern development services and technologies.


DevOps and DevSecOps application development platform

Creation, coding and development of software for business applications and mobile apps; providing technology solutions and consultancy services to assist application development.

Application development can use Waterfall or Agile methodologies.

Core to the Agile methodology, is DevOps where the Software Development and Live Business Environment Operations teams are joined, rather than being siloed, and where there is continuous deployment of updates, and automated software testing.

Application development is also referred to as custom software development.

The application development process includes
- a discovery phase
- confirmation of high level functionality
- estimation of development costs
- design of the UI / User Interface aka GUI / Graphical User Interface or the front end of an application
- design and architecture of the back end of the application
- specification of the technology stack
- ensuring best security standards and practices
- development of the prototype
- testing
- release to production, often as an MVP / Minimum Viable Product

Application development

Creating and selling computer software: whether for on premise, hybrid cloud, or cloud; whether created for commercial enterprises, not for profit, or for retail customers;  whether designed to run on a computer, a mobile device, a server, or cloud provisioned virtual hardware.

Computer software categories include:

- bespoke software designed for your needs: be it an app for your new start-up, a new website or an enterprise application for your business
- commercial off the shelf software (COTS) designed to be best in class for a specific business need or function.
- SAAS - software as a service - running from the cloud.  You don't need to do anything to support the software, you simply subscribe to the service.
- OS - operating software - the software that keeps your computer hardware, or indeed cloud hardware operating as it should
- PAAS - software that supports platform as a service - you don't need to look after the hardware, or the patching, or the provisioning, this is all done for you
- SASE - pronounced SASSY - the new software that 'virtualises' all the hardware and connectivity - so you never need to buy or look after a firewall again

Standard core business software application types include ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning), MRP (Manufacturing Requirements Planning), CRM (Customer Relationship Management), Finance, Accounting, and HR - furthermore each business sector will have specific application types.

Core consumer software categories include gaming, gambling and social media as examples, but the total range of consumer software categories is vast.

The scope, function, and role of software applications is going through a generational change with the power of AI technologies.

Software

Performing the tests and the QA to ensure that software developments are fit for purpose and ready for use.  Testing can be manual or automated, and will include unit tests, regression tests, integration tests, functional tests, performance tests, and end to end tests, before being released to "super users" who then perform UAT or user acceptance tests.  And finally there are smoke tests - quick high level tests to check core functionality is working.

Any new functionality added to software can have unintended impacts on other parts of the system.

Manual tests are key as a first step, but, in order to enable Agile development, automated testing sequences have to be continually developed and run prior to each update.

Performance testing is also essential : an application's performance is determined by the elegance of the software architecture and design, the technology stack that it is run on, along with the power and resources available to it.

Unit tests are a simple, isolated test.

Functional tests are tests mapped out by the initial requirements: what is the use case, what are the expected inputs and outputs, and did the software behave in the way expected?  Functional tests have to be performed by the development teams, and then again by the business users, as part of UAT or User Acceptance Tests.

Regression tests are tests of processes that have already been tested before: and simply running the same tests again.

Integration tests are progressively important, the more integrated your software application is: the interfaces need to work, and integrated applications must not be impacted by changes. 

End to end tests are complete tests of all elements of a system, where each process that runs within the software, is tested from the start, through to completion.

Testing services can include the provision of courses to train testing engineers to the standards of International Software Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB) and Certified Professional Requirements Engineering (CPRE).

