Sybase Unwired Platform Development Life Cycle

The "development life cycle" takes developers through the process of designing, developing, testing, deploying and maintaining mobile business objects, device applications, and workflow packages. Understanding the development lifecycle helps establish best practices for deploying updated MBOs and device applications.

In addition to learning about the development lifecycle, developers should also understand the system life cycle. The knowledge about the interaction between the two lifecycles helps establish best practices for developing MBOs, device applications, and workflow packages and deploying them within Sybase Unwired Platform.

• Designing
  Design mobile business objects, the client user interface, and notification processing.
• Developing
  Develop mobile business objects and the device client user interface.
• Testing
  Two types of testing are required before deploying device applications and workflow packages to the production system. Test each device application and workflow package on a simulator or emulator, and make adjustments. Then, test in a test environment that emulates the production environment for complete end-to-end testing.
• Deploying
  Deploy mobile business objects, projects, device applications, and device clients to make them available to the system administrator to provision and manage in the production environment.
• Maintaining
  Maintaining mobile business objects and device applications is an ongoing activity. Package and application versioning, and upgrading Sybase Unwired Platform and its components is part of the development life cycle.