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Requirement Gathering and Analysis Design Implementation or Coding Testing Deployment Maintenance

The document describes the typical phases of a software development life cycle model. It explains that there are usually six main phases: requirements gathering and analysis, design, implementation/coding, testing, deployment, and maintenance. For each phase, it provides details on the key activities and goals. Requirements are gathered and analyzed, then used to create a design which is implemented in code. Testing verifies that the code meets requirements before deployment to customers. Maintenance occurs after deployment to address issues. The phases produce deliverables needed by subsequent phases in an iterative process.

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Requirement Gathering and Analysis Design Implementation or Coding Testing Deployment Maintenance

The document describes the typical phases of a software development life cycle model. It explains that there are usually six main phases: requirements gathering and analysis, design, implementation/coding, testing, deployment, and maintenance. For each phase, it provides details on the key activities and goals. Requirements are gathered and analyzed, then used to create a design which is implemented in code. Testing verifies that the code meets requirements before deployment to customers. Maintenance occurs after deployment to address issues. The phases produce deliverables needed by subsequent phases in an iterative process.

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Software life cycle models describe phases of the software cycle and the order in which those

phases are executed. Each phase produces deliverables required by the next phase in the life
cycle. Requirements are translated into design. Code is produced according to the design
which is called development phase. After coding and development, the testing verifies the
deliverable of the implementation phase against requirements. The testing team follows
Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) which is similar to the development cycle followed by
the development team.

There are following six phases in every Software development life cycle model:

   Requirement gathering and analysis

   Design

   Implementation or coding

   Testing

   Deployment

   Maintenance

1) Requirement gathering and analysis: Business requirements are gathered in this phase.


This phase is the main focus of the project managers and stake holders. Meetings with
managers, stake holders and users are held in order to determine the requirements like; Who
is going to use the system? How will they use the system? What data should be input into the
system? What data should be output by the system? These are general questions that get
answered during a requirement gathering phase. After requirement gathering these
requirements are analyzed for their validity and the possibility of incorporating the
requirements in the system to be development is also studied.

Finally, a Requirement Specification document is created which serves the purpose of


guideline for the next phase of the model. The testing team follows the Software Testing Life
Cycle and starts the Test Planning phase after the requirements analysis is completed.

2) Design: In this phase the system and software design is prepared from the requirement
specifications which were studied in the first phase. System Design helps in specifying
hardware and system requirements and also helps in defining overall system architecture. The
system design specifications serve as input for the next phase of the model.

In this phase the testers comes up with the Test strategy, where they mention what to test,
how to test.

3) Implementation / Coding: On receiving system design documents, the work is divided in


modules/units and actual coding is started. Since, in this phase the code is produced so it is
the main focus for the developer. This is the longest phase of the software development life
cycle.

4) Testing: After the code is developed it is tested against the requirements to make sure that
the product is actually solving the needs addressed and gathered during the requirements
phase. During this phase all types of functional testing like unit testing, integration testing,
system testing, acceptance testing are done as well as non-functional testing are also done.

5) Deployment: After successful testing the product is delivered / deployed to the customer
for their use.

As soon as the product is given to the customers they will first do the beta testing. If any
changes are required or if any bugs are caught, then they will report it to the engineering
team. Once those changes are made or the bugs are fixed then the final deployment will
happen.

6) Maintenance: Once when the customers start using the developed system then the actual
problems come up and needs to be solved from time to time. This process where the care is
taken for the developed product is known as maintenance.

There are various software development approaches, these approaches are also referred as
“Software Development Process Models” (e.g. Waterfall model, incremental model, V-
model, iterative model, etc.).

Each phase produces deliverables required by the next phase in the life cycle. Requirements
are translated into design. Code is produced according to the design which is called
development phase. After coding and development, the testing verifies the deliverable of the
implementation phase against requirements.

There are following six phases in every Software development life cycle model:

 Requirement gathering and analysis


 Design
 Implementation or coding
 Testing
 Deployment
 Maintenance

1) Requirement gathering and analysis:

Business requirements are gathered in this phase. This phase is the main focus of the project
managers and stake holders. Meetings with managers, stake holders and users are held in
order to determine the requirements. These are general questions that get answered during a
requirements gathering phase. After requirement gathering these requirements are analyzed
for their validity and the possibility of incorporating the requirements in the system to be
development is also studied.

2) Design:
In this phase the system and software design is prepared from the requirement specifications
which were studied in the first phase. System Design helps in specifying hardware and
system requirements and also helps in defining overall system architecture. The system
design specifications serve as input for the next phase of the model.

3) Implementation / Coding:

The work is divided in modules/units and actual coding is started. Since, in this phase the
code is produced so it is the main focus for the developer. This is the longest phase of the
software development life cycle.

4) Testing:

After the code is developed it is tested against the requirements to make sure that the product
is actually solving the needs addressed and gathered during the requirements phase. During
this phase unit testing, integration testing, system testing, acceptance testing are done.

5) Deployment:

After successful testing the product is delivered / deployed to the customer for their use.

6) Maintenance:

Once when the customers starts using the developed system then the actual problems comes
up and needs to be solved from time to time. This process where the care is taken for the
developed product is known as maintenance.

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