Software life cycle

Essay by jayhorUniversity, Bachelor'sA, August 2006

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According to Cem Kaner, "The full business, from initial thinking to final use, is called the product's life cycle." A life cycle is the sequence in which a project specifies, prototypes, designs, implements, tests, and maintains a piece of software. Explicit recognition of a life cycle encourages development teams to address development issues at the appropriate time; for example, to establish basic software requirements before design or coding begins. We recommend that developers roughly follow the staged delivery model (below) when designing significantly new versions of the full model and when developing large components and libraries. So, apropos of software life cycle, at beginning we can give the definition about it. It can help us to understand clearly during reading this essay. The software life cycle is a general model of the software development process, including all the activities and work products required to develop a software system. It is important task of software engineering, which is the profession concerned with creating and maintaining software applications by applying software engineering technologies and practices.

Software Life-cycle phases

The phases a software product goes through between when it is conceived and when it is no longer available for use. The software life-cycle typically includes the following:

1. Requirements (Determine user needs)

2. Specification (Design Software Externals)

3. Design (Design Software Internals)

4. Implementation (Build the Software)

5. Testing (Determine Product Quality)

6. Maintenance (Use, Fix, & Evolve Product )

During these 6 phases, their product will different.Requirement, Specification, Design will work out some doucuments, and the Implementation step will produce the software.Testing must need some report and Maintenance also work out some documents to announce some errors,and some time will produce some software which normally named service pack.

The development process tends to run iteratively through these phases rather than...