Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
By
Dilip Gupta
March 26, 2010
India has came forth as a growing market for web designs/development. Companies around the globe prefer to outsource web related services to India since India has a pool of web development companies and freelancers who work at a very reasonable rate.
There is an copiousness of talent available for developing websites on the latest technologies. One can find experienced developers specializing in open source technologies like PHP , Joomla, Wordpress,.NET, Java etc. Companies vary in scale from big companies to small firms to freelancers. With website development, a fresh service called Search Engine Optimization is an crucial part of the service. This includes techniques implemented for better ranking in search engines.
Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) is a method for the development of a software product. Software development process includes planning of project, requirement gathering, design, building/ coding, testing and maintenance.
Planning of project includes setting up business goals, scope and timeline of the project. Client interaction is most in this phase. Requirement gathering phase includes gathering project requirement and knowing about the users. Data collections and user studies are done at this phase.
At the next stage of design, concept designs are constructed. Various concepts are thought by the design team and then filtered, iterated and finalized. The next phase involves programming/ building the software. Team of software developers builds the software using technologies in their scope.
Software testing job involves assessing the software or application for various scenarios under different conditions. A tester job is to trace bugs in the software being tested and report them for correction. Software testing is an important job in SDLC. If the project is a low risk project, experienced programmers can also act as software testers. With high risk projects, there is a special team of test engineer for testing and reporting bugs.
Software quality assurance involves supervising and improving software. QA testing jobs also involve verification of any agreed-upon standards and procedures that needs to be followed. Quality assurance is a preventive method to ensure the quality of the software before it is launched.
Web development has boomed enormously in India as foreign companies are outsourcing huge development and maintenance work. The abundance of skilled labor has further increased the growth of web development in India. Varieties of projects such as ecommerce website, plain static website, flash website or informative website are built in countless numbers.
Hence, Software development life cycle is considered as the building block of any I.T related project, if your project has no SDLC base then its not reliable.
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