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.

SAP Mobile SDK is intended to work with your existing development paradigm. Use SAP Mobile SDK as you would use any development tool—integrated with your existing change control and versioning mechanisms, and with your development, test, and production environments.

• Life Cycle Stages
  Life cycle refers to the distinct stages of application development and upgrade. In the context of this document, life cycle refers to the application life cycle changes, focusing especially on initial release of the application, additional releases, and patches to the production system.
• Stage 1: Development
  During development, developers use tools to perform requirements analysis, design and model a solution, and develop application code.
• Stage 2: Testing
  During the development process, code may be tested on an iterative basis—typically at specific milestones—by quality assurance engineers.
• Stage 3: Production
  The production system changes on an ongoing basis. After testing, the release can be delivered to the production environment for use.
• Stage 4: Maintenance
  Changes to the production system require a new development effort. In some cases, a patch, or hot fix, may be applied to the production system.
• Best Practices
  Implement best practices for developing, testing, and deploying device applications using the application life cycle.