Software Prototyping: A Strategy to Use When User Lacks Data Processing Experience

A prototype is a working physical model of a system and it serves as a preliminary version of the system. One of the major challenges faced by developers is to know when to use prototype and when not to. This is so considering that there are many disagreements among developers on the proper use of prototyping. This study looked at the question “Is prototyping the best strategy to use when the user lacks data processing?” There is an accepted assumption about users by application developers; they think that users are na ve with little understanding of data processing. It is very important for developers to consider end users when developing systems; this is because the end users are the major beneficiary of the system. The paper concluded that the knowledge of Data processing will be very helpful in prototyping and lack of it does not mean that prototyping is the best strategy to use in software development.