latest software engineering trends


Being software engineering undergraduates;the work Shop which was conducted by "hsenid mobile" was a really help full lecture for us . 

In there we learn a lot about latest software engineering trends .
The following are the  latest trends  we learnt that day; in software engineering that every software engineer ought to know.

Agile Software development
Systems are becoming increasingly reliant on software due to needs for rapid fielding of interoperability, net-centricity, and rapid adaptation to change. The need for rapid adaptation and releases led to increased interest in agile methods of software development.

Agile methods break tasks into small increments with minimal planning and do not directly involve long-term planning. Iterations are short time frames (time boxes) that typically last from one to four weeks. Each iteration involves a team working through a full software development cycle, including planning, requirements analysis, design, coding, unit testing, and acceptance testing when a working product is demonstrated to stakeholders. This minimizes overall risk and allows the project to adapt to changes quickly. Stakeholders produce documentation as required. Iteration might not add enough functionality to warrant a market release, but the goal is to have an available release (with minimal bugs) at the end of iteration. Multiple iterations might be required to release a product or new features.

Team is usually cross-functional and self-organizing and members take responsibility for tasks that deliver the functionality iteration requires. They decide individually how to meet iteration’s requirements.

Agile methods emphasize face-to-face communication over written documents when the team is all in the same location. Team size is typically small (5-9 people) to simplify team communication and team collaboration. Larger development efforts can be delivered by multiple teams working toward a common goal or on different parts of an effort. This might require a coordination of priorities across teams.

In team meetings team members report to each other what they did the previous day, what they intend to do today, and what their roadblocks are. This face-to-face communication exposes problems as they arise. Agile development emphasizes working software as the primary measure of progress. This, combined with the preference for face-to-face communication, produces less written documentation than other methods. The agile method encourages stakeholders to prioritize “wants” with other iteration outcomes, based exclusively on business value perceived at the beginning of the iteration (also known as value-driven).

Applied Mobility
In today’s age of technology what really matter is harnessing available networks, form factor, user interface and raw device computing power to create rich yet simple and intuitive apps to solve real business problems. These solutions can be as simple as placing a mobile layer over existing offerings and business processes which conducts business as usual, but through channels independent of physical locations. These new mobile solutions serve the full spectrum of transactional, analytical and social computing capabilities that are having different design and deployment concepts which is more focused in scope and simple in execution from user perspective compared to multipurpose feature-rich enterprise applications.

The Mobile applications are essentially powerful that they are elegant solutions to well-defined problems, and designed for operations on-the-go. Companies are rethinking business processes and enabling new business models that would not have been possible without mobile technology. Evolutions in location-based services, social networks, mobile payment processing, low-cost device add-ons and integration with enterprise systems has led to the potential for employees, customers and suppliers to consume and produce sophisticated information, goods and services from anywhere. And with the extension of mobile solutions to sensors and actuators in physical goods and equipment, otherwise known as asset intelligence there is the potential for almost anything to become part of the mobile solution footprint.

Security and Ethics
Password protection, encryption, controlling device administrative rights (system settings, permissions to directly install applications) and managing entitlements to back-end services must be implemented to provide a secure data access path to prevent unauthorized access from unknown and known sources.
Social Computing

Everyone has started going online for their daily needs and hence we are leaving the trails our opinion, behavior and choices. The data of traces created when mined would provide business with a good source of insight on market, consumer sentiment and employee productivity. By performing analytical operation on the data organizations can better understand their customer needs, preferences, their employee’s experiences and problems that require immediate co-corporate attention. With the help of Social computing Businesses are able to take a results oriented and business-led approach, focusing on specific issues and communities, soliciting membership and creating platforms for content, collaboration and transaction support.

So these are the important facts that we learnt on that day. We must be really thankful to the madam Sarasi and to the hsenid mobile to conducting us a such a helpful lecture.
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