The domain of computer science is pretty much broadened and therefore, there are number of professions in it. In this brief article, we look in to the responsibilities of computers programming professionals.
Coding, or in other words, program writing, is the primary responsibility of computers programming professionals. For this, there are piles of programming languages available. In addition to that, the programmers are required to follow predefined rules and criteria when writing their code.
Writing the source code is just not enough to develop functioning software. The programmer is expected to successfully compile and link the source, so the program can work on the target platform. For this steps, there are software called compilers (such as C compiler), that convert source code to binary instructions.
Once the program is written by a computers programming professional, he/she is required to document the function of the source code and the business problem covered by the software. Apart from that, the documentation and comments (in the source code itself) created by the programmer should be sufficient for someone else to understand the purpose of the code.
Once computers programming professionals write individual elements of software, then the elements need to be integrated. This is also performed by the programmer with the help of the software architect of the project.
Maintainability is one of the most key aspects of software development. No software is a good software unless they are maintainable. Therefore, the computers programming professionals are expected to add maintainability to their software.
Although we mention ‘Requirements analysis’ at a later point of this article than at the beginning, this is one of the most key first steps in the software development life cycle. The rule is that a programmer needs to know the requirement for writing a software program as he/she needs to write the program in such way that it matches the said requirements.
Largely, software testing is a different profession than computers programming profession. But, the programmers are required to dry-test their own programming code for obvious logical faults before the software program is given to the software quality assurance team. Then the software quality assurance team will test the software for functional and non-functional requirements specified in the requirements documents agreed by the customer.
When it comes to computer programming, debugging comes at a latter part of the software development life cycle. Once the quality assurance team finds ‘bugs’ in the software, the computers programming professionals are supposed to resolve the ‘bugs’. For debugging, programmer use different technologies and approaches depending on the tools used and the type of the ‘bug’. In general most of the functional and non functional defects are caused by logical errors in the program level.
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