Association for information systems

Software Development.
  Software must meet requirements, which are often 
controlled by laws, regulations, business plans, and organizational factors. 
Developers muse ensure their software is designed to meet these requirements, or 
the requirements are changes to what the software can satisfy. Then their 
implementations must satisfy the design and be robust (secure programming), 
which includes the proper handling of exceptions and errors. This includes taking 
into account the environment in which the software will operate. They must know 
how to validate their claims by testing the software. Finally, they must be able to 
set the environment in which the software will run to that which their design and 
implementation assumes; and if this cannot be done, they must document this in 
their installation guides, and (ideally) display appropriate messages during the 
installation of the software.  
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