Software Developement Life Cycle
In putting together any software program, there are seven certain steps to take fully complete, referred to as the Software Development Life Cycle. The seven stages include: planning, analysis, design and prototyping, development, testing, implementation and integration, and operations and maintenance.
Planning Stage: The planning stage includes the whole project team, breaking down each division each will be in charge of. As well each team individual planning their parts of what needs to be done and delegated within each team.
Feasibility or Requirements Analysis Stage: In the analysis stage the team brings together all requirements set forth and ensure each plan is set to best suite the end-user.
Design and Prototyping: For the design and prototype phase is basic mapping out of solutions to all requirements and solutions needed to implement them all. As well as setting up expectations and showing ways the functionality needs to work.
Software Development Stage: Software Development Stage takes all the project’s requirements, planning, and prototypes and puts them into working code. By the end of this phase you should have workable features to share with the owner and testers to be able to move on further.
Software Testing Stage: Now that the overall structure is put together, the software testers will now implement test features for the project. They will check for code quality, verify it meets the requirements, and verify the code adheres to secure development principles. Some teams perform these with automated testing features, while some testers manually develop their tests.
Implementation and Integration: Often referred to as the deployment stage of application development, where the code is taken from just back end development and put into the web searchable and usable to the public.
Operations and Maintenance: This phase is the upkeep of keeping the application running smoothly. Identifying any bugs that come up and resolve the issues to keep everything working for the end user.
