Software – the perspective

A software application is a program which enables end users to perform a specific task, for example, online money transfer, and withdrawal of money from an ATM or the use of an Eclipse to develop an application. This application is complex, scalable, and distributed, providing a complete solution to the end user. Applications known as enterprise applications are needs-based, providing solutions to business requirements rather than to an individual. The organization will use this application or integrate it within an existing application.

Enterprise applications may vary from business to business, for example, school or employee management systems, banking applications, online shopping applications, or e-commerce applications. All such enterprise applications provide displaying, processing, and storing data as their basic feature. Along with these features, the application can also provide transaction management and security services as advanced features. We access such applications typically through a network system rather than on an individual machine.

Let's briefly discuss the software development process before moving ahead:

Although these phases theoretically come one after another, there can be different approaches called software development process models, such as the waterfall model, iterative model, spiral model, v model, agile model, and so on.