January 2020
Intermediate to advanced
640 pages
16h 56m
English
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Spiral
The spiral development model was introduced by Barry Boehm in 1986 [5] as an approach to minimize risk when developing large-scale projects associated with significant development costs.
In the context of software engineering, risks are defined as any kind of situation or sequence of events that can cause a project to fail to meet its goals. Examples of various degrees of failure include the following:
- Missing the delivery deadline
- Exceeding the project budget
- Delivering software on time, depending on the hardware that isn't available yet
As illustrated in the following diagram, the spiral model combines the ideas and concepts from the waterfall and iterative models with a risk assessment and analysis process. As Boehm points out, ...