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Topic 7.1 Program Development Life Cycle

The document outlines the Program Development Life Cycle, detailing stages such as Analysis, Design, Coding, and Testing. It emphasizes the importance of abstraction in understanding problems, creating a requirements document, and designing solutions using various techniques. The coding stage involves iterative testing of modules, while the testing stage ensures the final program meets initial requirements through extensive testing with various data sets.

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Topic 7.1 Program Development Life Cycle

The document outlines the Program Development Life Cycle, detailing stages such as Analysis, Design, Coding, and Testing. It emphasizes the importance of abstraction in understanding problems, creating a requirements document, and designing solutions using various techniques. The coding stage involves iterative testing of modules, while the testing stage ensures the final program meets initial requirements through extensive testing with various data sets.

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Cambridge (CIE) IGCSE Your notes


Computer Science
Development Life Cycle
Contents
Program Development Life Cycle
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Program Development Life Cycle


Your notes
Analysis
What is the analysis stage of the program development life
cycle?
The analysis stage of the program development life cycle is to precisely understand the problem the
program is intended to solve

What role does abstraction play in the analysis?


Abstraction is the act of removing unimportant details from the problem to focus on important
elements such as:
Core functionality
Requirements
An example of abstraction would be the London underground train route map; travellers do not need
to know the geographical layout of the routes, only that getting on at stop A will eventually transport
you to stop B
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Your notes
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Your notes

Core functionality
Using abstraction helps to identify the fundamental components of what the program is going to
solve
Before tackling a problem, it needs to be clearly understood by everyone working on it
The overall goal of the solution needs to be agreed as well as any constraints such as limited resources
or requiring a platform specific solution

Requirements
To create a solution, a requirements document is created to define the problem and break it down into
clear, manageable, understandable parts by using abstraction and decomposition
A requirements document labels each requirement, gives it a description as well as success criteria
which state how we know when the requirement has been achieved

Design
What is the design stage of the program development life
cycle?
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The design stage of the program development life cycle involves using techniques to come up with a
blueprint for a solution
Your notes
Ways the design of a solution to a problem can be presented include:
Structure diagrams
Flowchart
Pseudocode

Coding
What is the coding stage of the program development life
cycle?
Developers begin programming modules in a suitable programming language that works together to
provide an overall solution to the problem
As each developer programs, they perform iterative testing
Iterative testing is where each module is tested and debugged thoroughly to make sure it interacts
correctly with other modules and accepts data without crashing or causing any errors
Developers may need to retest modules as new modules are created and changed to make sure they
continue to interact correctly and do not cause errors

Testing
What is the testing stage of the program development life
cycle?
Once the overall program or set of programs is created, they are run many times using varying sets of
test data
This ensures the program or programs work as intended as outlined in the initial requirements
specification and design and rejects any invalid data that is input
Examples of test data include alphanumeric sequences to test password validation routines

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