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Software Development Life Cycle

The software development life cycle (SDLC) is a framework for developing software that consists of 7 stages: 1) Planning and requirements analysis, 2) Defining requirements, 3) Designing the software, 4) Developing the project, 5) Testing, 6) Deployment, and 7) Maintenance. It represents the process of developing software in a systematic and disciplined manner. Requirement analysis is the most important stage where requirements are gathered from stakeholders. Then requirements are defined and the software is designed before development, testing, deployment, and ongoing maintenance.

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Software Development Life Cycle

The software development life cycle (SDLC) is a framework for developing software that consists of 7 stages: 1) Planning and requirements analysis, 2) Defining requirements, 3) Designing the software, 4) Developing the project, 5) Testing, 6) Deployment, and 7) Maintenance. It represents the process of developing software in a systematic and disciplined manner. Requirement analysis is the most important stage where requirements are gathered from stakeholders. Then requirements are defined and the software is designed before development, testing, deployment, and ongoing maintenance.

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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.

Need of SDLC
The development team must determine a suitable life cycle model for a particular plan
and then observe to it.

Without using an exact life cycle model, the development of a software product would
not be in a systematic and disciplined manner. When a team is developing a software
product, there must be a clear understanding among team representative about when
and what to do. Otherwise, it would point to chaos and project failure.

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.

For Example, A client wants to have an application which concerns money


transactions. In this method, the requirement has to be precise like what kind of
operations will be done, how it will be done, in which currency it will be done, etc.

Once the required function is done, an analysis is complete with auditing the feasibility
of the growth of a product. In case of any ambiguity, a signal is set up for further
discussion.

Once the requirement is understood, the SRS (Software Requirement Specification)


document is created. The developers should thoroughly follow this document and also
should be reviewed by the customer for future reference.

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

After the code is generated, it is tested against the requirements to make sure that the
products are solving the needs addressed and gathered during the requirements
stage.

During this stage, unit testing, integration testing, system testing, acceptance testing
are done.

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

Once when the client starts using the developed systems, then the real issues come up
and requirements to be solved from time to time.

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