Software development methodology: brief description

The Heads of all IT outsourcing enterprises understand that to be competitive in the computer programming market one has to deal with software development methodologies. Here comes the question:

• What is a software development methodology?
• What for do we need to use software development methodologies?

A software development methodology is a complex of processes, rules and procedures executed by a development team and the whole outsourcing enterprise employees to achieve the main goal of web development: high-quality software.

Here are the benefits of using software development methodologies:

• Number of defects is reduced;
• The project is ready in less time;
• Improves created software quality.

And now it’s time to tell what software development methodologies exist. I guess the best way not to waste time of the web developers (and all other readers of the following article) and list only up to date methodologies. They can be divided into two groups:

• Engineering methodologies (plan-driven methodologies is another name of the group)
• Agile methodologies

Engineering methodologies

The core of these methodologies is software production based on non changing specification. Rational Unified Process (RUP) is the most often used engineering methodology .

Agile methodologies
The main core of the agile software development is in adapting the process of product construction throughout its life cycle. During agile software development the project can be easily adjusted to custom changes throughout its development.
Extreme Programming (XP programming) and Scrum are the most often used methods of agile development.

As a conclusion I have to admit that that it’s up to you to decide whether invent a new software development methodology or use an existing one. But there is no doubt that a software development methodology should be used.

Scrum as a means of Agile

It’s difficult to find a person engaged in creating software business who has never heard about Scrum. Scrum is an agile software development methodology widely used all over the world. A scrum process is divided into 3 phrases:
1. Planning (a web developer learns about custom preferences to the project);
2. Sprint cycle: a phrase when the web development is done. This phrase begins with scrum meeting, where the feature that will be developed is chosen. The sprint cycle will take place until all features of the project are implemented.
3. Closure: on this phrase the product is delivered to the customer.

So that not to lack behind the times and have Agile, high – quality software, use agile management and Scrum as a means of it!

Using .NET for Software Testing Automation

Nowadays software testing is a rapidly growing up sphere. And software testing engineers may be found employed in different sectors. Lots of methodologies are widely known:
-Agile testing;
-Extreme testing;
-Scrum testing;
-White Box testing;
-Traditional Black Box testing and others.

The Black Box testing is the most popular and called for in many companies around the world. For years experts had been developing different costly commercial tools to lessen testing efforts and to increase the efficiency and quality of software testing, but lots of them were nonviable in practice. Later in 2001, some testing experts offered to create the software utilities for their manual-and tool-automated testing efforts.