The Spiral Model: IT Project Management Solutions by Bharat Bista
The Spiral Model is the neo approach in IT project system development and was originally devised by Barry W. Boehm through his article published in 1985 “A Spiral Model of Software Development and Enhancement” . This model of development unites the features of the prototyping model with an... The spiral model represents the evolutionary approach of IT project system development and carries the same activities over a number of cycles in order to elucidate system requirements and its solutions.

Software Development Life Cycle by Anirban Bhattacharya
Software development life cycle (SDLC) is a process adopted and followed during the development of software. Also known as software life cycle and software process, there are quite a few stages for SDLC. Requirements analysis Being acquainted with the specific requirements of the desired... This is the most important stage of any software development life cycle where extensive testing is done to ensure that coding done by different software developers work together in harmony. ... Ideally, training is an important part of the software development life cycle where end users have all their...

All About Software Engineering And Development by Gabriel J. Adams
Software engineering, known as SE, is the development, design, maintenance and documentation of software by applying practices and various technologies from fields such as computer science, engineering, application domains, project management, digital asset management and interface design. ... Software Development Life Cycle Software Development Life Cycle, or SDLC, is a sequence of events done by designers, analysts and users to develop and execute an information system. ... For system analysis, it is required to study the current system by certain procedures in order to gather and...

Six Sigma and Agile Software Development by Chris Young
The term Iterative and Incremental Development (IID) describes a class of methodologies for software development where the system grows incrementally through a series of complete development cycles. Agile software development methods are a group of specific iterative methodologies that... In addition, we have found that some useful key indicators for software quality include measurements of numbers of defects found in a test cycle, the percentage of rework per iteration (the number of requirements which need to be re-implemented during one cycle) and the number of new features which are...

Introduction to Software Development by Cinoy Ravindran
Software is a part of the computer system which allows or enables the hardware to operate. Computer software can be classifies as system and application software . System software includes the operating system and other utilities which help in the smooth functioning of the computer and other... The phases are Preliminary investigation (feasibility study), Determination of system requirements (analysis), Design of system, Development of software, System testing, System Implementation, System Maintenance.

Dragging Software Development into the 21st Century by Joe Crowley
Companies spend billions of dollars every year on developing their own software applications or purchasing complex enterprise software applications. This includes not only the cost of software, but the hardware infrastructure required to support the software as well. ... The software development entity is often unaware that the client is not happy until the next development cycle is well under way, at which point it is too late and too expensive to address the problems. ... The typical software development cycle starts with a base product that is developed and subsequently sold, if...

Oracle E-Business Suite: Software Factory Development Process by Andrew Karasev
The Software Factory concept is based on a production line for systems from user requirements to software delivered. This production should be done without any direct communication between developers (production line workers) and users, system analysts and designers (customer side), based upon a... A software development process is a fundamental piece to a software factory success, it considers all software development cycle and help project activities and resources management (plan and control).

Software Testing and Quality in Real World by Karthikeyan Pappaiyan
Why Sofware Testing? To reduce risk: Customer dissatisfaction Decrease of market share Higher service costs To verify To ensure that the system operates according to the requirements “Passive” testing; the positive attributes of the system are tested To validate To ensure that the... Introducing new tools and imposing new techniques will not change the process. ... Everyone involved in the delivery of the software, including business users, analysts, designers, programmers, testers, managers, executives, systems personnel and quality assurance people, must understand that you are...

Content Management System by Sardool Sikandar
A content management system is a computer software system for organizing and facilitating collaborative creation of documents and other content. The term content management system is usually used in its abbreviated form cms. The cms is frequently a web application used for managing websites and... Types of content management systems: • web content management system or web site content management system is a type of content management system software used for managing websites. ... • learning content management system or lcms assists in managing the web-based learning content life cycle.

The Waterfall Model: IT Project Management Solutions by Bharat Bista
The waterfall model is an information technology system development type model initially published in 1970 by Winston W. Royce. Prior to this time, there had been a number of significant malfunctions of IT system type projects; this is due to a lack of proper parameters, procedural approaches... A detail waterfall model can be represented as in the following system development life cycle: Phase I [SYSTEM FEASIBILITY / Justification] {-----------------------||----------------------------} Phase II [SYSTEM PLAN / Justification]...