As the world became increasingly dependent on technology with each passing day, software automatically became an important organ for development.

Since software is needed almost everywhere today, its development is a highly intelligent and accurate process, involving various steps. These steps, known as software development life cycle, include planning, analysis, design, development, testing, Deployment and maintenance. These steps go on to create the perfect software for clients.

PLANNING:

Planning focuses on the scope of the project. The outputs of the planning phase include: project goals, availability and allocation of resources, project scheduling, cost estimation.

ANALYSIS:

This step is about analysing the technical requirements of this project. When the development team receives the answers to questions such as:

• What problem is this going to solve?
• Who would use it, and why?
• What sort of data input/output is needed?
• Are you going to integrate with other software or APIs?
• How are you going to handle security / privacy?

They will begin to scope out technical specifications, terms of testing, and decide on a technology stack.

DESIGN:

When Analysis is completed, the design process takes place, which effectively builds the project’s architecture. This step helps to minimise possible defects by setting a standard and trying to adhere to it.

DEVELOPMENT:

The work is split into modules when the system design documents are obtained, and actual coding is begun. Since the code is created in this process, it is the main focus for the developer. This is the longest phase of the software development life cycle. Testable operational software is the product of this process.

TESTING:

SDLC’s testing phase is arguably one of the most important. It is impossible to deliver quality software without testing. Although testing may be another long phase of the SDLC, it’s important to make sure you’re not delivering buggy software to real customers.

DEPLOYMENT:

Once testing process is complete, it’s time to launch your software. Pushing the code into production is what we’re talking about here. This phase should be very automated with an Application Release Automation (ARA) system in most businesses.

MAINTENANCE:

Last but not the least, maintenance is the phase that involves after sales services and support provided by the developers to clients or end users.