SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT LIFE CYCLE

Software Development Life Cycle, or Software Development Process, defines the steps/stages/phases in the building of software.
Definition: A software development process, also known as a software development life-cycle, is a structure imposed on the development of a software product.

There are various kinds of software development models like:

• Waterfall model
• Spiral model
• Iterative and incremental development (like ‘Unified Process’ and ‘Rational Unified Process’)
• Agile development (like ‘Extreme Programming’ and ‘Scrum’)

SDLC IN SUMMARY

• Project Planning
• Requirements Development [Business Requirements and Software/Product Requirements]
• Design [ High Level Design and Detail Design]
• Development/Coding
• System Testing
• Acceptance Testing
• Production Build/Deployment
• Release / Acceptance
• Maintenance