Solitary Software Application Developers

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This literature review concentrates on two main areas: the problems and issues faced by solitary developers working small-scale software projects, and the use and problems of 4GL "production" tools in this development environment. It presents the solitary applications developer in a holistic manner, and discusses the issues and problems of this ever-expanding group of computer professionals.

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"The proliferation of PC-based computers in the work environment, and the realized utility they can provide, has spawned the growing need for "small-scale" software application development. Traditional software engineering has sometimes dismissed these "small" projects as not being worthy of serious attention, but such projects increasingly make up the bread and butter of many developers' responsibility (McConnell, 1997). A "1 x 3" project, whereas one developer works for 3 months to complete the application, may not be a business mission-critical commodity but end-users of these applications still expect to receive a usable, reliable, quality software product. Many of these applications are built using fourth generation language (4GL) development environments (i.e. Visual Basic, Delphi, PowerBuilder) that allow applications developers to quickly produce GUI-based applications such as database information systems, task/domain-specific applications, and client/server based software (Harrison et. al., 1995; Komiya, 1993). The application development is usually done in close proximity or coordination with the ultimate end user(s) of the application."

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