The textbook discusses the basic concepts and definitions, the classification of software, the stages of creating a software product within the life cycle, highlights the current state of software development technologies. The existing approaches to assessing the quality of software creation processes are described, requirements analysis and definition of software specifications are performed. Much attention is paid to the issues of software design, its reliability, and collective development using modern version control systems. The theoretical material is accompanied by a workshop in the form of laboratory work on the stated topic. Meets the requirements of the federal state educational standards of higher education of the latest generation. For students and teachers of higher educational institutions of technical profile, as well as for specialists of any subject area who have shown interest in the current state of programming methods and tools.