Software development

Quality:

Software development - creation and maintaining of programs and applications. Article “Software development” in English Wikipedia has 75.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 71 references and 22 sections.

This article has the best quality in Hindi Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

In June 2026 the article “Software development” was edited by 5 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 9 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Software development”, its content was written by 781 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1367 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 2894 times in English Wikipedia and cited 14452 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1563 in June 2018
• Global: #5831 in August 2018

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #3493 in February 2015
• Global: #8505 in February 2015

There are 36 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Hindi (hi) सॉफ्टवेयर विकास		78.3961
2	English (en) Software development		75.6496
3	Hungarian (hu) Szoftverfejlesztés		72.8429
4	Korean (ko) 소프트웨어 개발		57.7616
5	Basque (eu) Software-garapen		49.4711
6	Indonesian (id) Pengembangan perangkat lunak		43.2304
7	Spanish (es) Proceso para el desarrollo de software		39.3018
8	Simple English (simple) Software development		32.9474
9	Malay (ms) Pembangunan perisian		30.0831
10	Bulgarian (bg) Разработка на софтуер		29.8676

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Software development		10 961 885
2	Spanish (es) Proceso para el desarrollo de software		1 681 060
3	French (fr) Développement de logiciel		383 265
4	Indonesian (id) Pengembangan perangkat lunak		375 237
5	Japanese (ja) ソフトウェア開発		297 152
6	Portuguese (pt) Desenvolvimento de software		269 110
7	Chinese (zh) 软件开发		250 219
8	Ukrainian (uk) Розробка програмного забезпечення		128 424
9	Arabic (ar) تطوير برمجيات		127 119
10	Polish (pl) Wytwarzanie oprogramowania		78 677

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Software development		10 043
2	Indonesian (id) Pengembangan perangkat lunak		467
3	Chinese (zh) 软件开发		406
4	French (fr) Développement de logiciel		404
5	Spanish (es) Proceso para el desarrollo de software		309
6	Portuguese (pt) Desenvolvimento de software		282
7	Japanese (ja) ソフトウェア開発		236
8	Hebrew (he) פיתוח תוכנה		132
9	Persian (fa) توسعه نرم‌افزار		126
10	Simple English (simple) Software development		115

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Software development		781
2	French (fr) Développement de logiciel		57
3	Spanish (es) Proceso para el desarrollo de software		52
4	Indonesian (id) Pengembangan perangkat lunak		52
5	Italian (it) Sviluppo software		44
6	Simple English (simple) Software development		28
7	Japanese (ja) ソフトウェア開発		23
8	Persian (fa) توسعه نرم‌افزار		22
9	Portuguese (pt) Desenvolvimento de software		21
10	Hebrew (he) פיתוח תוכנה		20

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Software development		5
2	Basque (eu) Software-garapen		2
3	Danish (da) Softwareudviklingsproces		1
4	Hungarian (hu) Szoftverfejlesztés		1
5	Arabic (ar) تطوير برمجيات		0
6	Azerbaijani (az) Proqram təminatı tərtibatı		0
7	Belarusian (be) Распрацоўка праграмнага забеспячэння		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) Разработка на софтуер		0
9	Catalan (ca) Desenvolupament de programari		0
10	Czech (cs) Vývoj softwaru		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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