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Creation and maintenance of software

Software development is the process of designing, creating, testing, and maintaining software applications to meet specific user needs or business objectives. The process is more encompassing than programming, writing code, because it includes conceiving the goal, evaluating feasibility, analyzing requirements, design, testing and release. The process is part of software engineering which also includes organizational management, project management, configuration management and other aspects. Wikipedia →

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

  1. Read the overview: Software developmentA 5-minute orientation
  2. Skim a recent paper: The Next Frontier in Software Development: AI-Augmented Software Development ProcessesInfluential work since 2022
  3. Pick up a classic book: Advances in Computers, Volume 49 (Advances in Computers)The most-reprinted book on the subject
  4. Read the landmark paper: Bioconductor: open software development for computational biology and bioinformaticsCited 10,507 times
  5. Go sideways: SoftwareA closely related topic
  6. Go sideways: Extreme programmingA closely related topic

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  4. Models and tools
  5. Intellectual property

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