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Questions about the Software Development Life Cycle (i.e. activities of the software development process, not necessarily related to a specific methodology).

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How is the spiral model to be understood?

Instead of wikipedia and the original article from Boehm, I propose to you a quote from an article about a NASA case study in using the spiral model of software development: The spiral model of soft …
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Prototyping in Spiral model

In the original paper of Boehm about the spiral model, he explains that the prototyping is meant for "building twice", a principle suggested by Royce in his paper about improving the waterfall approa …
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Who (client or provider) should write the specifications document

It depends completely of what the customer is looking for and what was sold to the customer. In an ideal world, the customer would now exactly and upfront what he needs. He would provide you a perf …
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Is project planning considered an 'umbrella activity'?

First a question: Is Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) all activities of a software project ? Or is it only the subset therof that is software specific ? … Project planning is not an SDLC activity according to the interpretation above, since it's not specific to software. …
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What were the most used SDLCs before Agile?

SDLC time travelling Before Agile, in late 90's, the most popular SDLC was probably the Unified Process, the first variant of which was the Rational Unified Process (RUP), designed by the founders of … What is SDLC by the way ? Note that SDLC means "Software Development LifeCycle". This describes the approach used to structure development projects and the successive stages of software. …
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What is the relationship between IV&V professionals, Testers and QA engineers?

Nowadays, the V&V should no longer be considered as being necessarily a sequential step in a waterfall-like SDLC. …
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Difference between a Software Requirement, a Feature and an Objective

About the terminology: A requirement expresses a need or a constraint that the system has to fulfil, in principle independently of the solution that will be chosen. Examples: "The system shall allo …
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