Construction is the translation of the requirements and design into source code, application configurations and their associated test cases.  These artifacts are used to create the final product and to test that the application created meets the business requirements.

Sub Activities

Although most organizations will have some variants, construction activities typically include the following:

• Preparing development environments.
• Creating source code files.
• Creating database structures.
• Creating and executing unit tests.
• Creating test cases.
• Integrating existing components.
• Integrating enterprise or third party systems.
• Creating and executing build processes.