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There are no definitive answers to the questions “What is the future of software development?” “How will software development change?” “Even if it changes, will it still have the same inertia it has now?”Industry pundits and gurus can only predict based on speculation. No one knows if software made will be bought. It’s like Steven Spielberg making another Jurassic Park film, and speculators betting on the film’s profits.The future of software development is headed into different directions. Some of them are as follows.
Agile development
Customers are becoming even more demanding. Their requirements change twenty four times in twenty four hours. To cope with this change, software developers need to follow a technique. The agile technique.Gone are the days of waterfall strategies. When developers wrote code, testers went on vacation, and writers weren’t even around. But agile demands everyone at the place every time. When developers write code, testers are needed to test the user interface at the same time. And writers need to put on paper what’s happening to the user interface and middleware.
Mobile development
The web is moving to the mobile phone. All desktop and web applications are becoming mobile applications. Now people have everything on their mobile phones. Although they might not store hundreds of gigabytes of data on their mobile phones, they can still do it from data centers of cloud providers. Storage has been virtualized thanks to cloud computing. All you need is access data over a network, and work your applications. Mobile development is the next wave of software development, and is heading for an exciting future.
