Exploring trends isn’t always a bad idea. Assuredly, there might be at least a little benefit in knowing how current trends and their execution make your businesses easy, better, and smart today.
In the Software Development Industry, trends usually imply where exactly the businesses stand in the market ahead. Any industry, to make it BIG in the marketplace, and stay ahead in the forthcoming years, must ensure that clear strategies are adopted and followed throughout their technological journey.
In short, these trends are the key indicators that every industry MUST focus on today.
1. Latest technologies
2. Development methods
3. Client preferences
Numerous enhancements are brewing in software services, developments, and their processes. As it is an inevitable fact that, all of the cutting-edge technologies that are trending today, might not be feasible for practice or supported by existing industries, owing to their dependencies and scalability.
Where few enterprises might demand a complete revamp of their existing systems and processes, while others, quite advantageously, might need just an upgrade to their current operations. Either way,
Adopting to futuristic trends always leads to better performance and scalability.
Let’s have a look at 2019 most popular software trends:
1. Cross-Platform Development Tools:
Early application development involved building products from a single platform, like iOS or Android. After the successful completion of the first design, developers could build another version for a different platform through dedicated resources and code porting between the operating systems.
The advent of modern cross-platform development tools has made the process easy for both developers and users. Microsoft’s Xamarin and Google’s Flutter are 2 unique environments, on which software developers can write apps that can operate nearly over every major desktop and mobile platform. The advantage of using these latest cross-platform development tools and technologies is that they use native APIs and user interfaces for creating apps that behave inherently without sacrificing performance.
2. Continuous Delivery and Deployment:
Antique SDLC practices were long and tiresome, and developing innovative features & updates required a plan, support, coding, testing and finally, the BIG release for the application to be made available to download. Be it major improvements or minor bug fixes, the process remained the same, and this made it easy and beneficial for the competitors to outsmart companies.
Modern SDLC practices involve continuous delivery and deployment. Unlike old practices, the advantage of this methodology is, the software is built-in shorter development, bug fixing, and test cycles for its early release. Through continual delivery, apps are pushed into production and made available for manual download, and through continuous deployment, the upgrade process becomes more automated and hassle-free. This practice eliminates technical dependencies and delivers fixes and functionalities quickly.
3. Advanced Web Apps:
Native apps are advanced applications that completely embrace and employ the hardware and software capabilities of a platform for maximal performance, but, are strictly restricted to the platform they are developed for. Progressive web apps offer app-like experience within the browser for greater performance and availability. The latest web technologies are unified to bring about a unique solution to create powerful web-based tools that are compatible to work on any platform. Major companies are well ahead in commitment to developing progressive apps as they see a new era of web technologies.
4. Low-Code Development
Software development, in the initial days of its commence, demanded teams of expert coders to bring solutions to life. Being an expensive and time-consuming process, the very idea of developing a unique web-based solution required a whole unit of developers to work on and successfully build an application as per demand. Today, as innovation is on the rise, industries are demanding for low-code development. With this, coding applications becomes easy and instant through graphical user interfaces rather than complex programming languages. These low-code development platforms are the latest trends on-demand in the web development industry as they facilitate drag-and-drop interfaces for better application visualization and business application development. New software can be an instant spin-out or built without any extra investment of time and money through this practice.
5. Language Trends
Languages and frameworks are the core tools used to program software applications. Today, Javascript and its multiple frameworks are being widely used by Full Stack Developers because of its excellent adaptivity to hybrid applications.
The initial phase of any software development project calls for a crystal-clear detailing as any diversion or failure in the middle of the project might lead to serious disasters and sometimes even shut-down of the complete project. To overcome this, the businesses must choose the most optimum language for programming in the early stage itself. Today, numerous tools are developed and used to judge the popularity and benefits of various languages used through available demographics.
Stack Overflow Survey is one such tool that takes the inputs given by developers to rank the popularity of programming languages, frameworks and adds them to the statistics. According to reports, Node.js is observed to be the most popular framework followed by Angular and React. Through this tool, it becomes easy for businesses to learn about the languages that are quickly gaining a vast market and use them according to their requirements. Businesses can also utilize this information to plan their annual custom software development projects.
6. Code Quality
With low-code development seeing a surge, on one hand, while the quality of code being demanded on the other, Industries are focusing on faster coding practice with quality. Through the constant evolution of technology, it has become important to consider the type of task as a foundation to decide the code quality and structure in order to deliver the optimum outcomes.
Every software company must have a clear strategy for development to ensure the best coding for their software.
Conclusion:
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