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    The Spiral Model is a risk-driven software development process that combines elements of the waterfall and iterative models. It involves progressing through multiple iterations of planning, risk analysis, engineering, and evaluation phases to develop software functionality incrementally. The Spiral Model is well-suited for large, complex projects with unclear requirements where risks and costs must be carefully evaluated.

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    The Spiral Model is a risk-driven software development process that combines elements of the waterfall and iterative models. It involves progressing through multiple iterations of planning, risk analysis, engineering, and evaluation phases to develop software functionality incrementally. The Spiral Model is well-suited for large, complex projects with unclear requirements where risks and costs must be carefully evaluated.

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    The Spiral Model is a risk-driven software development process that combines elements of the waterfall and iterative models. It involves progressing through multiple iterations of planning, risk analysis, engineering, and evaluation phases to develop software functionality incrementally. The Spiral Model is well-suited for large, complex projects with unclear requirements where risks and costs must be carefully evaluated.

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    The key takeaways are that the Spiral Model is a risk-driven software development process that is a combination of the waterfall model and iterative development. It allows for adopting elements from multiple process models based on unique risk patterns to ensure efficient development.

    The phases of the Spiral Model are Planning, Risk Analysis, Engineering, and Evaluation. Planning includes estimating costs, schedule, and resources. Risk Analysis identifies potential risks and plans mitigation strategies. Engineering includes testing, coding, and deployment. Evaluation has the customer evaluate the software and identify risks.

    The Spiral Model is used for large projects, when frequent releases are required, when prototyping is applicable, when risk and cost evaluation is important, for medium to high risk projects, when requirements are unclear or complex, and when changes may be required.

    Spiral Model 

    is a risk-driven software development process model. It is a combination of waterfall model and


    iterative model. Spiral Model helps to adopt software development elements of multiple process
    models for the software project based on unique risk patterns ensuring efficient development
    process.

    Each phase of spiral model in software engineering begins with a design goal and ends with the
    client reviewing the progress. The spiral model in software engineering was first mentioned by
    Barry Boehm in his 1986 paper.

    The development process in Spiral model in SDLC, starts with a small set of requirement and
    goes through each development phase for those set of requirements. The software engineering
    team adds functionality for the additional requirement in every-increasing spirals until the
    application is ready for the production phase. The below figure very well explain Spiral Model:

    Spiral Model Phases

    Planning

    It includes estimating the cost, schedule and resources for the iteration. It also involves
    understanding the system requirements for continuous communication between the system
    analyst and the customer

    Risk Analysis

    Identification of potential risk is done while risk mitigation strategy is planned and finalized

    Engineering

    It includes testing, coding and deploying software at the customer site

    Evaluation

    Evaluation of software by the customer. Also, includes identifying and monitoring risks such as
    schedule slippage and cost overrun

    When to use Spiral Model?


     A Spiral model in software engineering is used when project is large
     When releases are required to be frequent, spiral methodology is used
     When creation of a prototype is applicable
     When risk and costs evaluation is important
     Spiral methodology is useful for medium to high-risk projects
     When requirements are unclear and complex, Spiral model in SDLC is useful
     When changes may require at any time
     When long term project commitment is not feasible due to changes in economic priorities

    Spiral Model Advantages and Disadvantages

    Advantages

     Additional functionality or changes can be done at a later stage


     Cost estimation becomes easy as the prototype building is done in small fragments
     Continuous or repeated development helps in risk management
     Development is fast and features are added in a systematic way in Spiral development
     There is always a space for customer feedback

    Disadvantages

     Risk of not meeting the schedule or budget


     Spiral development works best for large projects only also demands risk assessment
    expertise
     For its smooth operation spiral model protocol needs to be followed strictly
     Documentation is more as it has intermediate phases
     Spiral software development is not advisable for smaller project, it might cost them a lot

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