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System software manages computer hardware and provides a platform for application software, while application software allows users to perform tasks like creating documents, playing games, and communicating. The software development lifecycle involves planning, requirements analysis, design, implementation, testing, and maintenance. Design includes architectural, high-level, and detailed design and transforms user requirements into a form for programmers. Testing ensures software meets functional requirements for what it should do and nonfunctional requirements for how it should work.

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Table comparing system and application software

Here are the key differences between system and application software.
Design and implementation
The software development lifecycle is a framework that project managers use to
describe the stages and tasks associated with designing software. The first steps
in the design lifecycle are planning the effort and then analyzing the needs of the
individuals who will use the software and creating detailed requirements. After the
initial requirements analysis, the design phase aims to specify how to fulfill
those user requirements.

The next is step is implementation, where development work is completed, and then
software testing happens. The maintenance phase involves any tasks required to keep
the system running.

The software design includes a description of the structure of the software that
will be implemented, data models, interfaces between system components and
potentially the algorithms the software engineer will use.

The software design process transforms user requirements into a form that computer
programmers can use to do the software coding and implementation. The software
engineers develop the software design iteratively, adding detail and correcting the
design as they develop it.

The different types of software design include the following:

Architectural design. This is the foundational design, which identifies the overall
structure of the system, its main components and their relationships with one
another using architectural design tools.
High-level design. This is the second layer of design that focuses on how the
system, along with all its components, can be implemented in forms of modules
supported by a software stack. A high-level design describes the relationships
between data flow and the various modules and functions of the system.
Detailed design. This third layer of design focuses on all the implementation
details necessary for the specified architecture.
Diagram of the software development lifecycle
Find out the six main steps involved in developing software.
How to maintain software quality
Software quality measures if the software meets both its functional and
nonfunctional requirements.

Functional requirements identify what the software should do. They include
technical details, data manipulation and processing, calculations or any other
specific function that specifies what an application aims to accomplish.

Nonfunctional requirements -- also known as quality attributes -- determine how the


system should work. Nonfunctional requirements include portability, disaster
recovery, security, privacy and usability.

Software testing detects and solves technical issues in the software source code
and assesses the overall usability, performance, security and compatibility of the
product to ensure it meets its requirements.

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