Use of XML to Accelerate and Automate Software Development

ABSTRACT For a very long time functional and object-oriented programming have been solving each other's problems but one thing which both approve of and suggest has been code reuse and code economy. Sometimes with Structures and Classes or Functions and Macros etc. This paper throws light on yet another contemporary approach towards the same. There are often instances when in different streams of software development, be it UI/UX development, Server Side programming, Writing Services or Client Side Programming, there is Data, Objects, and Dependencies which need to be initialized prior to the beginning of the main processes, which is independent of the software's runtime so handling all these runtime independent tasks in a functional manner among other runtime specific tasks makes the code significantly longer, complex and difficult to understand. Moreover, every time these runtime independent dependencies change, the whole code needs to be rebuilt. This paper presents a remedy to all these problems, that how the use of XML to put together configuration files and other static settings and logic can significantly shorten the code length, become easier to maintain and accelerate and automate parts of the Software Development Lifecycle in the longer run. Keywords: UI/UX, Dependencies, Objects, XMl, Software Development Lifecycle