Application Software and Design

Application Software and Software Design

While doing research for this paper I found myself asking just what is application software and software design. I found a lot of articles on each but could not really comprehend what each of them were so I decided to learn more about each and break them down in this paper. First lets define what application software is.

Application software, also known as an "app", is software that is designed to help the end user to perform tasks. Application software is contrasted with the system software and manages and integrates a computers capability or in other words application software cannot run by itself. It is dependent on system software to execute the application. Application software is designed for end users to be are designed to be user friendly. Application software comes in various forms to include commercial software, shareware, freeware, and rental ware. Some examples of application software are word processing software, graphic software or web design software. Now lets take a look at what software design is.

According to Wikipedia (2014) software design is the process of implementing software solutions to one or more set of problems. It is the process of defining software methods, functions and objects. Software design is the overall structure and interaction of your code so that the resulting functionality will satisfy your users requirements. One of the important parts of software design is the software requirements analysis (SRA). It is a part of the software development process that lists specifications used in software engineering. Furthermore software design is broken down into a process and a model. The process allows the architecture to provide guidance and describe aspects of the software to the software development team. The model is the blue prints for the design software. It provides a representation of what is to be built. The model provides all of the details that...