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Software applications are hitting the market so hard in recent years and many software applications keep emerging nonstop. Want to create your own software applications ? This article is just for you.

Note that this article is based on experiences and knowledge that I have gained over the years of my life as a software engineering student so please notify me if there are mistakes or errors.

Nowadays, in order to develop a good quality software, every company or software engineer follows the Software Development Life Cycle approach. Software Development Life Cycle approach defines the process that needs to be followed in order to develop a high quality software in the shortest possible amount of time. There are 6 main phases in the software development life cycle and those are the communication phase, the planning phase, the modeling phase, the coding phase, the testing phase and the deployment phase. 

• The communication phase: This is the phase where all stakeholders are involved. The development team, the product owner, the clients will talk with each other, gathering requirements and confirming the requirements before proceeding to the planning phase. This phase is essential as it is the phase where the organization goals will be defined and a set of activities that must be followed will be created in order to achieve that particular goal.
• The planning phase: This is the phase where the flows of the development are formed. The deadlines, the process model and a set of activities are defined in this phase before moving to the modeling phase.
• The modeling phase: This is the phase where the entire architecture of the software will be designed at. All the technologies, all the components of the software will be defined over here. The data model in the database, the UI/IX of the software will be developed over here before moving to the coding phase.
• The building phase or The coding phase: This is the phase where the software will be built and it is very important for each programmer to follow the blueprint and a set of coding guidelines to ensure the quality of the software as well as keeping the coding process less chaotic. Make sure that your team is following proper guidelines for clean code ( naming convention, easy to understand code and etc ) so that your team can produce organized code and consistent code.
• The testing phase: this is where the hunt for errors and bugs that exist within your code begin and it is one of the most important phases as well. In these phases, we will measure whether the code meets the defined requirements or not before it gets into the production phase. 
• The deployment phase: This the last stage of the software development life cycle where the software has already been built and has been tested on. In this phase, the software will be launched for usages and is opened for comments and reviewed in order to make further improvements.

That’s how you build a software application in these modern days!