Software Trends and Technologies in Software Development

In this modern technological era it is the need of hour to get updated with current technologies, trends and methodologies to run a successful software house. Software house have experienced team of business analysts, software developers, graphic designers, technical writers and software tester’s etc. IT companies are categories into service companies and product companies.  Google, Facebook, twitter, HP, quora, and amazon are product companies which develop their software associated with their businesses. CTS, TCS, Infosys, HCL, and Accenture, etc are service companies which develop software associated with the client's business and make money. Java, .net and php are the techniques used in both product and service companies. Software house provide top quality services according to the client’s demands and requirements. The services offered by software house include:

• Web Hosting
• Web Designing
• Software Development
• Domain Name Registration
• Mobile Application Development services
• Web application development services
• Desktop Application Development services
• SEO Services 

All above mentioned services are developed on latest and up to date software and techniques. Top technologies used in software development and testing are HTML, .NET, PHP, Java, Ajax, Programming Frameworks, Web Services, Mobile platforms, Web technologies and Content Management Systems (CMS). Rapid change in the software demands and usages of variety of software have increased the responsibility of software house business. Business practices and use of web Applications are changing rapidly in this modern and technological era. Continuous and rapid changes in the business requirements have changed the web development methodologies and trends. Now the clients are more conscious and touchy about their websites so, most of the designs are selected by them. This individualization is changing the business practices so; IT managers should consider the affect of these changes.

Here’s the list of new technologies trends and methodologies to run an established and successful software house industry.

Modern scripting language

Modern scripting language or extension language is a programming language that is used to control one or more software applications. Scripts are different from the core code of the application because they are written in a different language. Scripting languages are nearly always fixed in the applications they control. These languages encourage good practices and methods in programming and program designing and a very easy and quick tool for simple scripts. These modern languages include Ruby, Groovy, and Python etc. The use of modern scripting languages will improve further designs and codes.

Modern version control system

The use of version control system improve software quality, facilitate teamwork and helpful for developers and designers. Git and Mercurial both are latest and leading version control systems. Git is an open source distributed version control system designed to handle small as well as very large projects with efficiency and speed. . Git is used in numerous well-known open-source projects e.g. the jQuery, Linux kernel, Ruby on Rails, Symfony, CakePHP, Fedora, Debian, Perl and many more. A DVCS can be used offline without any constraints. Its use is very popular among developers because of this property.

 NoSQL solutions like MongoDB,  CouchDB

MongoDB and CouchDB both are ‘document-oriented database’ which means that the structure of each row is taken into account instead of rigid schemas. The concept of ‘row’ defines the concept of ‘document’. JSON-like data structures, efficient storage of binary data, dynamic queries, mapreduce support account for their robust and easy use-cases.

Functional programming languages

Functional programming languages are like tools used by professionals for development process. The learning of functional language is necessary to solve the some programming problems. Functional programming describes declarative programming whereas most mainstream languages, including object-oriented programming (OOP) languages such as Visual Basic, C#, C++, and Java –, were designed to maintain imperative (procedural) programming. There are different types of functional programming languages e.g. Scala, Haskell, The Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC), Erlang, Ruby, Clojure and Python etc.

Agile principles and concepts

The knowledge of agile management is necessary for managers as well as for the whole team for their own development and management process. Agile is a set of principles providing guidance from project management to daily development. The industry is already adopting agile development trends due to rapidly change in business requirements. Now project managers are more interested in agile project management due to agile development. Project managers should continue learning new development techniques and methodologies to be successful in the current software industry. Some important parts of agile methods are as following:

• Scrum
• Lean
• Kanban
• CI - Continuous Integration
• XP - Extreme Programming
• TDD - Test Driven Development
• BDD - Behavior Driven Development
• Iteration-based development

Javascript ‘dsl’ language

Javascript is a crucial part of web development. Javascript language is included in three top technologies of World Wide Web content production. Most of the websites used javascript language to increase the recognition of javascript for server side web applications. It is also used in desktop and mobile applications, game development, server-side network programming, and in environments e.g. site-specific browsers, PDF documents, and desktop widgets. CoffeeScript and Google’s Dart both languages are excellent and expand Javascript very well.

Mobile web

In this modern era the use of mobile is increasing day by day. The majority of people access the internet through mobile devices and tablets instead of Pc’s and laptops. The hardware characteristics of Mobile devices are relatively different as compare to desktop or laptop computers. So the techniques used for mobile websites would also be different. The responsive designing of website is most important mobile web technique used by web developers and web designers. Responsiveness means your website automatically adjust itself according to the device used. Responsive design basically means that web page responds to different screen sizes and resolutions. Device mode is a new tool which allows you to quickly see how your website works on different mobile devices. The techniques used in mobile web include:

• Mobile UI kits
• Responsive design
• iOS/Android development
• Site size/performance optimization
• UC approach to mobile web designing
• Use of CSS3 media queries

HTML5 and CSS3

HTML5 and CSS3 are emerging technologies in web development. Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) describes the document formatting written in HTML or XHTML which are markup languages. CSS enables developers and designers to make changes in layout, font, color, size, borders, alignment, and spacing of a web page. CSS3 is a new version of CSS which enables developers to make web pages with heavy content, complete with graphic elements such as gradients, drop shadows, multi-column layouts, and border effects etc. Top CSS3 features are font face, opacity, border-radius, box and text shadow, RGBA colors, gradient, multiple backgrounds, transform and transition.

Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is used to present web pages and other related information in a browser. HTML is written in the form of paired tags to identify the beginning and end of an element. HTML5 is the fifth revision of the HTML standard.  HTML5 consists of variety of new attributes, elements, and APIs e.g. Multimedia support, New input types, local storage, in place editable content, custom data attributes, Canvas, semantic tags like aside, header, footer, section, article etc.