Note on Software Development
February 13th, 2009
- Understand the requirements:
It’s often the case that you (a developer) don’t gather requirements. It’s either project manager, lead or say module owner. Requirements are gathered and handed over to concerned engineer / developer. In this case, you should first understand the requirements. If you need more time to understand the requirements, ask for same. Get all the questions, doubts cleared before you further plan for development. - Plan the development:
After you have right and clear understanding of the requirement plan out the appropriate solution. This plan might be any thing like-- What changes I need to do (requirements)
- What files, programs will be affected
- What will be impact of this on entire system
- What programs, pages or forms I need to design
- What will be the validation criteria
- If sorting needed, which algorithm to use
- Where to apply sorting in database queries or after you gather required data.
- Do I need pagination
There could be many more planning points but we should not put all our time in planning :).