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Software development is the process of conceiving, specifying, designing, computer programmer | programming, software documentation | documenting, software testing | testing, and Software bugs | bug fixing involved in creating and maintaining application software | applications, software framework | frameworks, or other software components. Software development is a process of writing and Software maintenance | maintaining the source code, but in a broader sense, it includes all that is involved between the conception of the desired software through to the final manifestation of the software, sometimes in a planned and Software development process | structured process.