Perform development activities under direction Overview This sub discipline covers the core competencies required to create to address business problems and realise opportunities, resulting in a variety of solutions, ranging from operating and control to web based or specialist applications, such as accounting and games. Development activities produce that translates the design deliverables from HCI design, data design and design, into working. These designs will include, at a detailed level, functions and processing, interfaces, data handling and storage needs and how the system will be used by and interact with people, as appropriate. Development involves the translation of the designs into working solutions that meet the defined requirements. There is a wide range of development activities that may be undertaken in a variety of environments appropriate to both the business and technical contexts in which they will be used, The development environments used will be selected and specified during the design phase when the physical models are produced. In some organisations, development may be undertaken as part of a holistic life cycle approach where one individual or team may complete all stages; whereas in other organisations, each stage of development may be undertaken by individuals or teams or as part of projects and/or programmes. Software development contexts can include, but are not limited to: Desktop, mainframe, process control, web and mobile applications Cloud computing and data resources that are delivered as a service over the Internet. This includes: as a service (SaaS), storage as a service (STaaS) and desktop as a service (DaaS). Implementation and exploitation of digital and social Media in systems development Real world web/internet Big data, difficult data and data warehousing (data searching and data mining) Green IT including both the impact on the environment of the increased use of IT & Telecoms systems and also the benefits that IT & Telecoms can have in reducing the environmental impact of other sectors Working in the junior professional role involves: performing development activities under direction ESKITP5022v2 1
Performance criteria You must be able to: P1 P2 P3 P4 P5 P6 P7 follow organisational standards for the systems development lifecycle use given information relating to IT architecture models together with business, data and HCI design deliverables to inform development and testing activities correctly use specified development procedures, tools and techniques to create that meets given designs functionally test that given designs have been met use naming conventions and standards in line with organisational standards use appropriate programming constructs to produce effective document own development activities ESKITP5022v2 2
Knowledge and understanding You need to know and understand: K1 K2 K3 K4 K5 K6 K7 K8 K9 what is meant by development and the stages of activity that constitute it the fact that many developers may work together to develop differing elements of a total solution and these individual elements need to work coherently together the importance of the systems development lifecycle as it relates to development activities the relationship between physical design, data and HCI design and development the value and role of development in addressing business problems and opportunities the fact that new may need to be developed or existing enhanced or adapted to take account of changing business needs the fact that solutions must combine data and the commands to manipulate it in the most effective manner to meet the business requirements the relationship between programming languages and file/database structures data types that can be used and how they can be represented and manipulated in development work K10 programming constructs available and the uses they can be put to K11 the activities and tasks involved in development K12 why naming conventions and standards are used during development work K13 the importance of documenting development and testing activities in a clear and understandable manner that will allow further development, amendments and updates to be made to solutions ESKITP5022v2 3
K14 operate with reference to organisational standards for development activities K15 use and apply the systems development lifecycle as appropriate to development activities K16 identify: K16.1 the functional and non-functional requirements for individual components K16.2 information required to perform functional testing K16.3 functional and unit testing which will be required as an integral part of development work K16.4 appropriate programming constructs to produce effective K17 use and apply: K17.1 specified development procedures, tools and techniques K17.2 naming conventions and standards in line with organisational standards K17.3 appropriate programming constructs to produce effective K17.4 information relating to data and HCI design deliverables in order to inform development activities K17.5 the procedures, tools and techniques to undertake functional testing K18 document development and testing activities accurately and clearly to allow further development, amendments and updates to be made to solutions ESKITP5022v2 4
Developed by e-skills UK Version number 2 Date approved August 2013 Indicative review date Validity Status Originating organisation Original URN Relevant occupations Suite Key words December 2015 Current Original e-skills UK ESKITP5022 Information and Communication Technology; Information and Communication Technology Professionals; Information and Communication Technology Officer; IT Service Delivery Occupations; Software Development IT and Telecoms Programming; Coding; Application development; Web development; Games development ESKITP5022v2 5