The process of web application

development

The software development process is divided into 5 steps so that requirements

mismatching, work redoing can be eliminated and overall code quality can be
improved.

Web Application Development Process

Web app (Web applications) development time is less because the overall code
can be simultaneously developed by different developers on the backend frontend.

1. Product Management
Market research has to be done before the Web app (Web applications)
development or standalone software application development as a product comes
under product management. Product managers job responsibility is to find the
answers of Why, when and what with respect to Market Competency Strategy,
Roadmap, Marketing and Release of products.
A. Market Competency Strategy

Through research about the demand for a product and features that
need to be embedded in the Web apps (Web applications) or
standalone software application.

Planning Web app (Web applications) development to be a market

competitive in terms of cost.

Making web application or standalone software application better in

terms of performance, features, UI UX and cost.
B. Roadmap

Planning phases of research, development, marketing strategies with

timings to create a balance between investment, earnings and
marketing expenditure on Web app (Web applications) and software
applications.

Predicting and estimating projection of growth in the number of users

and revenue over a period of time.

How and when to hit the market to make the Web app (Web
applications) development based product maximum profitable venture.

2. Business Analysis
The biggest problem in Web apps (Web applications) and software development
of a product faces is the mismatching of requirements for development in the eyes
of stakeholders, product development and software development team. Due to this
mismatching in requirements, the development team has to often redo the work
which incurs losses on Web app (Web applications) development company and
delays the product delivery for the client. To eliminate this confusion, speed up
the development process and improve code quality with rigorous testing
procedures of Web apps (Web applications) software development methodologies
were implemented.

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Business analysis is the job of IT business analysts they are the ones who bridge
the gap between stakeholders, product development, Web app (Web applications)
development and software development teams. Business analysts make sure
whatever features client is demanding for their Web apps (Web applications) or
software are possible to develop and shall be feasible to deliver within time
bounds and client’s budget. If the demanded features are not feasible to develop
under the pre-mentioned criteria’s then business analysts shall be able to suggest
an alternative solution.

3. Research
Technical Research for Web apps (Web applications) development and software
development is initiated during the business analysis process but most of the
research is done after mapping initial requirements of the project.

Research phase of Web app (Web application) development includes finding

suitable front end and back end development frameworks.

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How the project architecture will be designed to eliminate the possibility of

critical issues that may occur later in the web development process.

How the data will be handled through APIs in Web apps (Web applications)?
4. Software Architecture Design
Software architecture design of Web apps (Web applications) and other software
is initially decided and done by project managers and software architects after
understanding project requirements and a thorough discussion with designers as
well as developers. Software architecture design is finalized after the designing
phase is completed because if a client asks to change something or finalized Web
app (Web application) design is not compliant with previously designed software
architecture then it is modified by developers on getting approval from a software
architect.

5. Development
Development phase for creating Web apps (Web applications) is broken down into
three parts to eliminate erroneous procedures and to fasten up the web
development process.
A. Designing

In designing phase UI designer, Front end web developer, business analyst and
client collectively decide the colour scheme and initial idea of web application’s
appearance by taking in to account the functionalities that have to be built by front
end web developer. Web designer designs wireframes and mockups which then
used by front end web developers and UX designers as a blueprint to create UI of
Web apps (Web applications) with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Bootstrap, material
and front end frameworks.
B. Front End Development & UX Development

Front end web development includes UX designing, Analytics animations, session

management with Cookies, implementing front end security and user
authentication, Front end functionalities creation, API integration, API calls,
routing, Web apps’ (Web applications’) responsiveness handling. Front end web
developers have dozens of options to create the UX with JavaScript using
frameworks. Web apps (Web applications) are mostly developed using MVC
based front end web development frameworks. MVC means modelled view
controller which makes front end code almost independent of the back end. Front
end code is visible to the user in view source option of a web browser.

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Applications?

Front end Web app (Web application) development tech stack

HTML (Hypertext Markup Language)

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)

JavaScript

Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML)

jQuery (JavaScript Framework Library -- commonly used in Ajax

development)
 Angular (MVC JavaScript Framework Library)

React js (MVC JavaScript Framework Library)

Vue js (MVC JavaScript Framework Library)

D3 js (MVC JavaScript Framework Library)

Canvas js (MVC JavaScript Framework Library)

MooTools (JavaScript Framework Library -- commonly used in Ajax

development)

Dojo Toolkit (JavaScript Framework Library - commonly used in Ajax

development)

C. Back End Development

Back end web development includes managing services on the back end, database
handling, session management, creating security for web applications, API
development,

Back end Web apps (Web applications) development tech stack

Below are the common Server Side Scripting technologies:

PHP (very common Server Side Scripting language - Linux / Unix

based Open Source - free redistribution, usually combines with
MySQL database)

Zend Framework (PHP's Object Oriented Web Application

Framework)

ASP (Microsoft Web Server (IIS) Scripting language)

ASP.NET (Microsoft's Web Application Framework - a successor of

ASP)

ColdFusion (Adobe's Web Application Framework)

Ruby on Rails (Ruby programming's Web Application Framework -

free redistribution)

Perl (general-purpose high-level programming language and Server

Side Scripting Language - free redistribution - lost its popularity to
PHP)

Python (general-purpose high-level programming language and Server

Side Scripting language - free redistribution)

6. Testing
Software testing is an inevitable part of Web app (Web applications) development
and software development because every software application has some bugs
even after it is fully developed. Regressive testing procedures make sure that
developed application is bug-free to the maximum extent and it can handle an
exceptionally larger number of users. Software testing of web apps can be done
from dozens of perspectives but all of them can be categorized into two following
categories:
A. Automated Testing

Automated testing is trending in the software industry as it is easy to artificially

create worst-case scenarios with automated testing tools where web apps can
crash. Unit testing, Integration testing, load testing, performance testing, stress
testing, regression testing and a lot more come under automated testing.
Automated testing tools like selenium & cucumber are available in abundance in
the market.
B. Manual Testing

All the types of testing done in automated testing can be done manually but it will
take the enormous time that’s why automated testing is adopted. Manual testing
has not vanished even after the rise of automation testing because alpha testing,
beta testing, user acceptance testing and a lot more require human intervention
because the passing criteria are human perception. End users should like it, the
client should like it and it should be developer-friendly in case the client decided
to scale up the Web app (Web application).
Posted by
Mahipal Nehra
| Posted at 11 Apr, 2019 Web