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Software Development Cycle

The software development cycle includes requirements analysis, design and implementation, testing, deployment, and maintenance. Requirements analysis involves extracting customer needs and addressing incomplete or contradictory requirements. Design, implementation, and testing involve programming code, ensuring bugs are found early through testing. Documentation is created throughout. Deployment includes training, distribution, and addressing issues. Maintenance involves adding code to fix problems or add new features, responding to customer requests, and seeing if testing uncovered all issues.

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Software Development Cycle

The software development cycle includes requirements analysis, design and implementation, testing, deployment, and maintenance. Requirements analysis involves extracting customer needs and addressing incomplete or contradictory requirements. Design, implementation, and testing involve programming code, ensuring bugs are found early through testing. Documentation is created throughout. Deployment includes training, distribution, and addressing issues. Maintenance involves adding code to fix problems or add new features, responding to customer requests, and seeing if testing uncovered all issues.

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Software Development Cycle:

Design, implementation and testing:

Implementation is the part of the process where software engineers actually program the code for the project.

Software testing is an integral and important part of the software development process. This part of the process
ensures that bugs are recognized as early as possible.

Documenting the internal design of software for the purpose of future maintenance and enhancement is done
throughout development. This may also include the authoring of an API, be it external or internal.

Requirements analysis:

The most important task in creating a software product is extracting the requirements or requirements analysis.
Customers typically have an abstract idea of what they want as an end result, but not what software should do.
Incomplete, ambiguous, or even contradictory requirements are recognized by skilled and experienced software
engineers at this point. Frequently demonstrating live code may help reduce the risk that the requirements are
incorrect.

Deployment and maintenance:

Deployment starts after the code is appropriately tested, is approved for release and sold or otherwise distributed into
a production environment.

Software Training and Support is important because a large percentage of software projects fail because the
developers fail to realize that it doesn't matter how much time and planning a development team puts into creating
software if nobody in an organization ends up using it. People are often resistant to change and avoid venturing into
an unfamiliar area, so as a part of the deployment phase, it is very important to have training classes for new clients of
your software.

Maintenance and enhancing software to cope with newly discovered problems or new requirements can take far more
time than the initial development of the software. It may be necessary to add code that does not fit the original design
to correct an unforeseen problem or it may be that a customer is requesting more functionality and code can be added
to accommodate their requests. It is during this phase that customer calls come in and you see whether your testing
was extensive enough to uncover the problems before customers do.

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