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Software Development Life Cycle

The Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) outlines the stages involved in developing software from inception to retirement. It includes 7 key stages: 1) Planning and requirements analysis, 2) Defining requirements, 3) Designing the software, 4) Developing the project, 5) Testing, 6) Deployment, and 7) Maintenance. The SDLC ensures all necessary development activities are completed and the software passes through each stage of the life cycle process.

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Software Development Life Cycle

The Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) outlines the stages involved in developing software from inception to retirement. It includes 7 key stages: 1) Planning and requirements analysis, 2) Defining requirements, 3) Designing the software, 4) Developing the project, 5) Testing, 6) Deployment, and 7) Maintenance. The SDLC ensures all necessary development activities are completed and the software passes through each stage of the life cycle process.

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Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

A software life cycle model (also termed process model) is a pictorial and diagrammatic
representation of the software life cycle. A life cycle model represents all the methods required
to make a software product transit through its life cycle stages. It also captures the structure in
which these methods are to be undertaken. In other words, a life cycle model maps the various
activities performed on a software product from its inception to retirement. Different life cycle
models may plan the necessary development activities to phases in different ways. Thus, no
element which life cycle model is followed, the essential activities are contained in all life cycle
models though the action may be carried out in distinct orders in different life cycle models.
During any life cycle stage, more than one activity may also be carried out.

SDLC Cycle

SDLC Cycle represents the process of developing software. SDLC framework includes the
following steps:

The stages of SDLC are as follows:


Stage1: Planning and requirement analysis

Requirement Analysis is the most important and necessary stage in SDLC.

The senior members of the team perform it with inputs from all the stakeholders and domain
experts or SMEs in the industry. Planning for the quality assurance requirements and
identifications of the risks associated with the projects is also done at this stage. Business analyst
and Project organizer set up a meeting with the client to gather all the data like what the
customer wants to build, who will be the end user, what is the objective of the product. Before
creating a product, a core understanding or knowledge of the product is very necessary.

Stage2: Defining Requirements

Once the requirement analysis is done, the next stage is to certainly represent and document the
software requirements and get them accepted from the project stakeholders.

This is accomplished through "SRS"- Software Requirement Specification document which


contains all the product requirements to be constructed and developed during the project life
cycle.

Stage3: Designing the Software

The next phase is about to bring down all the knowledge of requirements, analysis, and design of
the software project. This phase is the product of the last two, like inputs from the customer and
requirement gathering.

Stage4: Developing the project

In this phase of SDLC, the actual development begins, and the programming is built. The
implementation of design begins concerning writing code. Developers have to follow the coding
guidelines described by their management and programming tools like compilers, interpreters,
debuggers, etc. are used to develop and implement the code.

Stage5: Testing
As your product is prepared for deployment, it needs a prior testing environment by the test
engineers to check for bugs and run-time errors, and they check in this phase whether the
functionality of the product is working as per the requirement or not. The bugs or defects which
are encountered in the test phase are reported to the developers, who fix the bug and revert to the
test engineers for further testing. This is an iterative process that continues until your application
is free from bugs and defects and works stably

Stage6: Deployment

Once the software is certified, and no bugs or errors are stated, then it is deployed.

Then based on the assessment, the software may be released as it is or with suggested
enhancement in the object segment.

After the software is deployed, then its maintenance begins.

Stage7: Maintenance

The final stage of the software development life cycle is maintenance and operations. This is one
of the most critical stages because it's when your hard work gets put to the test.

Maintenance is the updating an existing software product to fix bugs and ensure reliability. It can
also include adding new features or functionality to a current product. Operations refer to the
day-to-day running of a software product or service, such as performing backups and other
administrative tasks.

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