Software Development Life Cycle Phases

The software development lifecycle is a cycle that includes planning, testing, and deploying of software. It has six phases: collection of requirements and analysis, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and maintenance. The first phase involves gathering information about the software's users, usage, and requirements, which is then analyzed to validate the data. The design phase creates a system architecture and describes hardware requirements. Implementation involves coding and dividing work into modules, while testing checks the code against requirements. Deployment delivers the software to customers, and maintenance solves problems that arise during use.

Software Engineering

Stages of Software development life cycle
The software development lifecycle is defined as the cycle in which the planning, testing,
deploying is done for developing the software. The concept of software development lifecycle
applies to all range of software and hardware configurations. The lifecycle is composed of the
clear path which is used by the system developers and software engineers in order to plan for
build, design, test and deliver information system (Highsmith et al., 2013).
The software development life cycle has six phases which are explained below:
1. Collection of requirements and analysis
In the first phase, the information is gathered by meeting with the project manager, stakeholders,
users and others. The information includes the users of software, how the software will be used,
input data and others. After collecting data, the information is analysed in order to check the
validity of data (De et al., 2013).
2. Design
In this phase, the software is a design from the collected information. It helps in system
architecture, and it also describes the requirements of system and hardware.
3. Implementation
After getting the system, design coding is started by dividing the work into modules. It is the
longest phase of the lifecycle.
4. Testing
After developing the code, the testing is done in order to check against the requirements.

5. Deployment
After testing the software is delivered to the customer.
6. Maintenance
The problem arises at the time of use by the customer which needs to be solved in order to take
care of the product which is known as maintenance.

References
De Lemos, R., Giese, H., Müller, H. A., Shaw, M., Andersson, J., Litoiu, M., ... & Weyns, D.
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Highsmith, J. (2013). Adaptive software development: a collaborative approach to managing
complex systems. Addison-Wesley.