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What is a Software Process Model?
Waterfall Model

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Incremental model Software Processes is a coherent set of activities for specifying, designing,
implementing and testing software systems. A software process model is an
Iterative Model abstract representation of a process that presents a description of a process from
some particular perspective. There are many different software processes but all
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involve:
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Specification – defining what the system should do;
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Design and implementation – defining the organization of the system and
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Validation – checking that it does what the customer wants;
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Software processes, methodologies and frameworks range from specific
prescriptive steps that can be used directly by an organization in day-to-day work,
to flexible frameworks that an organization uses to generate a custom set of steps
tailored to the needs of a specific project or group. In some cases a “sponsor” or
“maintenance” organization distributes an official set of documents that describe
the process.

Software Process and Software Development Lifecycle Model

One of the basic notions of the software development process is SDLC models
which stands for Software Development Life Cycle models. There are many
development life cycle models that have been developed in order to achieve
different required objectives. The models specify the various stages of the process
and the order in which they are carried out. The most used, popular and important
SDLC models are given below:

Waterfall model

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Types of Software Process Model

Waterfall Model
Waterfall Model
The waterfall model is a breakdown of project activities into linear sequential
V Model phases, where each phase depends on the deliverables of the previous one and
corresponds to a specialisation of tasks. The approach is typical for certain areas of
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engineering design.
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Spiral model

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V Model
The V-model represents a development process that may be considered an
extension of the waterfall model and is an example of the more general V-model.
Instead of moving down in a linear way, the process steps are bent upwards after
the coding phase, to form the typical V shape. The V-Model demonstrates the
relationships between each phase of the development life cycle and its associated
phase of testing. The horizontal and vertical axes represent time or project
completeness (left-to-right) and level of abstraction (coarsest-grain abstraction
uppermost), respectively.

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Project Manage Guide-ThroughThe incremental build model is a method of software development where the
model is designed, implemented and tested incrementally (a little more is added
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Management Process Map each time) until the product is finished. It involves both development and
maintenance. The product is defined as finished when it satisfies all of its
requirements. Each iteration passes through the requirements, design, coding and
testing phases. And each subsequent release of the system adds function to the
previous release until all designed functionally has been implemented. This model
combines the elements of the waterfall model with the iterative philosophy of
prototyping.

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An iterative life cycle model does not attempt to start with a full specification of
requirements by first focusing on an initial, simplified set user features, which then
progressively gains more complexity and a broader set of features until the
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targeted system is complete. When adopting the iterative approach, the philosophy
 of incremental development will also often be used liberally and interchangeably.
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Model? further requirements. This iterative process is then repeated by delivering a new
version of the software for each iteration. In a light-weight iterative project the
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code may represent the major source of documentation of the system; however, in
Waterfall Model a critical iterative project a formal software specification may also be required.

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Design Method (SSADM). Rapid application development (RAD) is often referred as
the adaptive software development. RAD is an incremental prototyping approach
to software development that end users can produce better feedback when
examining a live system, as opposed to working strictly with documentation. It puts
less emphasis on planning and more emphasis on an adaptive process.

RAD may resulted in a lower level of rejection when the application is placed into
production, but this success most often comes at the expense of a dramatic
overruns in project costs and schedule. RAD approach is especially well suited for
developing software that is driven by user interface requirements. Thus, some GUI
builders are often called rapid application development tools.

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What is a Software Process development process model which was introduced for dealing with the
Model? shortcomings in the traditional waterfall model. A spiral model looks like a spiral
with many loops. The exact number of loops of the spiral is unknown and can vary
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from project to project. This model supports risk handling, and the project is
Waterfall Model delivered in loops. Each loop of the spiral is called a Phase of the software
development process.
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The initial phase of the spiral model in the early stages of Waterfall Life Cycle that is
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needed to develop a software product. The exact number of phases needed to
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project risks. As the project manager dynamically determines the number of
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phases, so the project manager has an important role to develop a product using a
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Agile is an umbrella term for a set of methods and practices based on the values
and principles expressed in the Agile Manifesto that is a way of thinking that
enables teams and businesses to innovate, quickly respond to changing demand,
while mitigating risk. Organizations can be agile using many of the available
frameworks available such as Scrum, Kanban, Lean, Extreme Programming (XP) and
etc.

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The Agile movement proposes alternatives to traditional project management.
RAD model Agile approaches are typically used in software development to help businesses
respond to unpredictability which refer to a group of software development
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methodologies based on iterative development, where requirements and solutions
Agile model evolve through collaboration between self-organizing cross-functional teams.

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The primary goal of being Agile is empowered the development team the ability to
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Project Manage Guide-Throughenvironment. Agile software development approach is typically operated in rapid
and small cycles. This results in more frequent incremental releases with each
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