Software Development Team

Definition

Software Development Team

the team that produces the software components of a system, application, or framework

Classification

As illustrated in the preceding figure, Software Development Team is part of the following inheritance hierarchy:

• Type: Concrete
• Superclass: Engineering Team
• Subclasses:
  • None

Responsibilities

The typical team-specific responsibilities of a Software Development Team are to:

• Design the software components.
• Implement the software components.
• Test the individual software components.

The software development team typically inherits the general team responsibilities from the team method component.

Roles

The software development team typically consists of persons playing the following roles:

• Software Designer, who designs software components and leads the team.
• Programmer, who implements the software components.
• Test Engineer, who performs unit and software integration testing.
• Technical Writer, who produces and maintains the software design document and associated models.

Tasks

The software development team typically performs the following team-specific software-related design, implementation and testing tasks in an iterative, incremental, parallel, and time-boxed manner:

• Software Component Design:
  • Design Reuse
  • Design Production
  • Design Refactoring
  • Design Documentation
• Software Implementation:
  • Implementation Reuse
  • Programming
  • Data Generation
  • Debugging
• Unit and Software Integration Testing:
  • Test Reuse
  • Test Design
  • Test Implementation
  • Test Execution
  • Test Reporting

The software development team typically inherits the common team tasks from the team process component.

Work Products

The software development team typically produces the following work products:

• Design Works Products:
  • Software Design Document
• Implementation Works Products:
  • Data Component
  • Software Component
• Associated unit and software integration Test Works Products
  • Test Report
  • Test harnesses.
  • Test scripts.
  • Test suites.
  • Test cases.
  • Test data.

Guidelines

• The same person often performs the software designer, programmer, and unit test engineer roles.
• Low-level software integration testing is often shared by the software development team and the integration team.
• There are often multiple small software development teams on medium and large sized projects, whereby each software development team is responsible for the development of one or more software components (e.g., packages).
• The software development team may develop internal data components, while the content management team may develop user-facing data components.
• A software development team typically inherits the common team guidelines from the team process component.