1.1. Life Cycle of a Software Development Project
Software development is a complicated process comprising many stages. Each stage requires a lot of paperwork and documentation in addition to the development and planning process. This is in contrast to the common thinking of newcomers to the software industry who believe that software development is just “writing code.” Each software development project has to go through at least the following stages:
Requirement gathering
Writing functional specifications
Creating architecture and design documents
Implementation and coding
Testing and quality assurance
Software release
Documentation
Support and new features
Figure 1-1 shows a typical development process for a new product.
Figure 1-1. Typical processes ...
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