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1. Software Development
Life Cycle (SDLC)
“You’ve got to be very careful if you don’t
know where you’re going, because you might
not get there.”
Yogi Berra
2. Capability Maturity Model (CMM)
• A bench-mark for measuring the maturity
of an organization’s software process
• CMM defines 5 levels of process maturity
based on certain Key Process Areas
(KPA)
4. SDLC Model
A framework that describes the activities
performed at each stage of a software
development project.
5. Waterfall Model
• Requirements – defines
needed information, function,
behavior, performance and
interfaces.
• Design – data structures,
software architecture, interface
representations, algorithmic
details.
• Implementation – source
code, database, user
documentation, testing.
6. Waterfall Strengths
• Easy to understand, easy to use
• Provides structure to inexperienced staff
• Milestones are well understood
• Sets requirements stability
• Good for management control (plan, staff, track)
• Works well when quality is more important than
cost or schedule
7. Waterfall Deficiencies
• All requirements must be known upfront
• Deliverables created for each phase are
considered frozen – inhibits flexibility
• Can give a false impression of progress
• Does not reflect problem-solving nature of
software development – iterations of phases
• Integration is one big bang at the end
• Little opportunity for customer to preview the
system (until it may be too late)
8. When to use the Waterfall Model
• Requirements are very well known
• Product definition is stable
• Technology is understood
• New version of an existing product
• Porting an existing product to a new platform.
9. V-Shaped SDLC Model
• A variant of the Waterfall
that emphasizes the
verification and validation
of the product.
• Testing of the product is
planned in parallel with a
corresponding phase of
development
10. V-Shaped Steps
• Project and Requirements
Planning – allocate resources
• Product Requirements and
Specification Analysis – complete
specification of the software
system
• Architecture or High-Level Design
– defines how software functions
fulfill the design
• Detailed Design – develop
algorithms for each architectural
component
• Production, operation and
maintenance – provide for
enhancement and corrections
• System and acceptance testing –
check the entire software system
in its environment
• Integration and Testing – check
that modules interconnect
correctly
• Unit testing – check that each
module acts as expected
• Coding – transform algorithms
into software
11. V-Shaped Strengths
• Emphasize planning for verification and
validation of the product in early stages of
product development
• Each deliverable must be testable
• Project management can track progress
by milestones
• Easy to use
12. V-Shaped Weaknesses
• Does not easily handle concurrent events
• Does not handle iterations or phases
• Does not easily handle dynamic changes
in requirements
• Does not contain risk analysis activities
13. When to use the V-Shaped Model
• Excellent choice for systems requiring high
reliability – hospital patient control
applications
• All requirements are known up-front
• When it can be modified to handle
changing requirements beyond analysis
phase
• Solution and technology are known
14. Structured Evolutionary Prototyping
Model
• Developers build a prototype during the
requirements phase
• Prototype is evaluated by end users
• Users give corrective feedback
• Developers further refine the prototype
• When the user is satisfied, the prototype
code is brought up to the standards
needed for a final product.
15. Structured Evolutionary Prototyping
Steps
• A preliminary project plan is developed
• An partial high-level paper model is created
• The model is source for a partial requirements
specification
• A prototype is built with basic and critical attributes
• The designer builds
– the database
– user interface
– algorithmic functions
• The designer demonstrates the prototype, the user
evaluates for problems and suggests improvements.
• This loop continues until the user is satisfied
16. Structured Evolutionary Prototyping
Strengths
• Customers can “see” the system requirements
as they are being gathered
• Developers learn from customers
• A more accurate end product
• Unexpected requirements accommodated
• Allows for flexible design and development
• Steady, visible signs of progress produced
• Interaction with the prototype stimulates
awareness of additional needed functionality
17. Structured Evolutionary Prototyping
Weaknesses
• Tendency to abandon structured program
development for “code-and-fix” development
• Bad reputation for “quick-and-dirty” methods
• Overall maintainability may be overlooked
• The customer may want the prototype delivered.
• Process may continue forever (scope creep)
18. When to use
Structured Evolutionary Prototyping
• Requirements are unstable or have to be
clarified
• As the requirements clarification stage of a
waterfall model
• Develop user interfaces
• Short-lived demonstrations
• New, original development
• With the analysis and design portions of object-
oriented development.
19. Rapid Application Model (RAD)
• Requirements planning phase (a workshop
utilizing structured discussion of business
problems)
• User description phase – automated tools
capture information from users
• Construction phase – productivity tools, such as
code generators, screen generators, etc. inside
a time-box. (“Do until done”)
• Cutover phase -- installation of the system, user
acceptance testing and user training
20. RAD Strengths
• Reduced cycle time and improved productivity
with fewer people means lower costs
• Time-box approach mitigates cost and schedule
risk
• Customer involved throughout the complete
cycle minimizes risk of not achieving customer
satisfaction and business needs
• Focus moves from documentation to code
(WYSIWYG).
• Uses modeling concepts to capture information
about business, data, and processes.
21. RAD Weaknesses
• Accelerated development process must give
quick responses to the user
• Risk of never achieving closure
• Hard to use with legacy systems
• Requires a system that can be modularized
• Developers and customers must be committed
to rapid-fire activities in an abbreviated time
frame.
22. When to use RAD
• Reasonably well-known requirements
• User involved throughout the life cycle
• Project can be time-boxed
• Functionality delivered in increments
• High performance not required
• Low technical risks
• System can be modularized
23. Incremental SDLC Model
• Construct a partial
implementation of a total
system
• Then slowly add increased
functionality
• The incremental model
prioritizes requirements of the
system and then implements
them in groups.
• Each subsequent release of
the system adds function to the
previous release, until all
designed functionality has
been implemented.
24. Incremental Model Strengths
• Develop high-risk or major functions first
• Each release delivers an operational product
• Customer can respond to each build
• Uses “divide and conquer” breakdown of tasks
• Lowers initial delivery cost
• Initial product delivery is faster
• Customers get important functionality early
• Risk of changing requirements is reduced
25. Incremental Model Weaknesses
• Requires good planning and design
• Requires early definition of a complete and
fully functional system to allow for the
definition of increments
• Well-defined module interfaces are
required (some will be developed long
before others)
• Total cost of the complete system is not
lower
26. When to use the Incremental Model
• Risk, funding, schedule, program complexity, or
need for early realization of benefits.
• Most of the requirements are known up-front but
are expected to evolve over time
• A need to get basic functionality to the market
early
• On projects which have lengthy development
schedules
• On a project with new technology
27. Spiral SDLC Model
• Adds risk analysis,
and 4gl RAD
prototyping to the
waterfall model
• Each cycle involves
the same sequence of
steps as the waterfall
process model
28. Spiral Quadrant
Determine objectives, alternatives and constraints
• Objectives: functionality, performance,
hardware/software interface, critical success factors, etc.
• Alternatives: build, reuse, buy, sub-contract, etc.
• Constraints: cost, schedule, interface, etc.
29. Spiral Quadrant
Evaluate alternatives, identify and resolve risks
• Study alternatives relative to objectives and constraints
• Identify risks (lack of experience, new technology, tight
schedules, poor process, etc.
• Resolve risks (evaluate if money could be lost by
continuing system development
31. Spiral Quadrant
Plan next phase
• Typical activities
– Develop project plan
– Develop configuration management plan
– Develop a test plan
– Develop an installation plan
32. Spiral Model Strengths
• Provides early indication of insurmountable
risks, without much cost
• Users see the system early because of rapid
prototyping tools
• Critical high-risk functions are developed first
• The design does not have to be perfect
• Users can be closely tied to all lifecycle steps
• Early and frequent feedback from users
• Cumulative costs assessed frequently
33. Spiral Model Weaknesses
• Time spent for evaluating risks too large for small or low-
risk projects
• Time spent planning, resetting objectives, doing risk
analysis and prototyping may be excessive
• The model is complex
• Risk assessment expertise is required
• Spiral may continue indefinitely
• Developers must be reassigned during non-development
phase activities
• May be hard to define objective, verifiable milestones
that indicate readiness to proceed through the next
iteration
34. When to use Spiral Model
• When creation of a prototype is appropriate
• When costs and risk evaluation is important
• For medium to high-risk projects
• Long-term project commitment unwise because
of potential changes to economic priorities
• Users are unsure of their needs
• Requirements are complex
• New product line
• Significant changes are expected (research and
exploration)
35. Agile SDLC’s
• Speed up or bypass one or more life cycle
phases
• Usually less formal and reduced scope
• Used for time-critical applications
• Used in organizations that employ
disciplined methods
36. Some Agile Methods
• Adaptive Software Development (ASD)
• Feature Driven Development (FDD)
• Crystal Clear
• Dynamic Software Development Method
(DSDM)
• Rapid Application Development (RAD)
• Scrum
• Extreme Programming (XP)
• Rational Unify Process (RUP)
37. Extreme Programming - XP
For small-to-medium-sized teams
developing software with vague or rapidly
changing requirements
Coding is the key activity throughout a
software project
• Communication among teammates is
done with code
• Life cycle and behavior of complex objects
defined in test cases – again in code
38. XP Practices (1-6)
1. Planning game – determine scope of the next release
by combining business priorities and technical
estimates
2. Small releases – put a simple system into production,
then release new versions in very short cycle
3. Metaphor – all development is guided by a simple
shared story of how the whole system works
4. Simple design – system is designed as simply as
possible (extra complexity removed as soon as found)
5. Testing – programmers continuously write unit tests;
customers write tests for features
6. Refactoring – programmers continuously restructure
the system without changing its behavior to remove
duplication and simplify
39. XP Practices (7 – 12)
7. Pair-programming -- all production code is written with
two programmers at one machine
8. Collective ownership – anyone can change any code
anywhere in the system at any time.
9. Continuous integration – integrate and build the
system many times a day – every time a task is
completed.
10. 40-hour week – work no more than 40 hours a week
as a rule
11. On-site customer – a user is on the team and available
full-time to answer questions
12. Coding standards – programmers write all code in
accordance with rules emphasizing communication
through the code
40. XP is “extreme” because
Commonsense practices taken to extreme levels
• If code reviews are good, review code all the time (pair
programming)
• If testing is good, everybody will test all the time
• If simplicity is good, keep the system in the simplest design that
supports its current functionality. (simplest thing that works)
• If design is good, everybody will design daily (refactoring)
• If architecture is important, everybody will work at defining and
refining the architecture (metaphor)
• If integration testing is important, build and integrate test several
times a day (continuous integration)
• If short iterations are good, make iterations really, really short (hours
rather than weeks)
41. XP References
Online references to XP at
• http://www.extremeprogramming.org/
• http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ExtremeProgrammingRoadmap
• http://www.xprogramming.com/
42. Feature Driven Design (FDD)
Five FDD process activities
1. Develop an overall model – Produce class and sequence diagrams from
chief architect meeting with domain experts and developers.
2. Build a features list – Identify all the features that support requirements.
The features are functionally decomposed into Business Activities steps
within Subject Areas.
Features are functions that can be developed in two weeks and expressed in client terms
with the template: <action> <result> <object>
i.e. Calculate the total of a sale
3. Plan by feature -- the development staff plans the development
sequence of features
4. Design by feature -- the team produces sequence diagrams for the
selected features
5. Build by feature – the team writes and tests the code
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43. Dynamic Systems Development Method
(DSDM)
Applies a framework for RAD and short time
frames
Paradigm is the 80/20 rule
– majority of the requirements can be
delivered in a relatively short amount of
time.
44. DSDM Principles
1. Active user involvement imperative (Ambassador
users)
2. DSDM teams empowered to make decisions
3. Focus on frequent product delivery
4. Product acceptance is fitness for business purpose
5. Iterative and incremental development - to converge
on a solution
6. Requirements initially agreed at a high level
7. All changes made during development are reversible
8. Testing is integrated throughout the life cycle
9. Collaborative and co-operative approach among all
stakeholders essential
45. DSDM Lifecycle
• Feasibility study
• Business study – prioritized requirements
• Functional model iteration
– risk analysis
– Time-box plan
• Design and build iteration
• Implementation
46. Adaptive SDLC
Combines RAD with software engineering
best practices
• Project initiation
• Adaptive cycle planning
• Concurrent component engineering
• Quality review
• Final QA and release
47. Adaptive Steps
1. Project initialization – determine intent of
project
2. Determine the project time-box (estimation
duration of the project)
3. Determine the optimal number of cycles and
the time-box for each
4. Write an objective statement for each cycle
5. Assign primary components to each cycle
6. Develop a project task list
7. Review the success of a cycle
8. Plan the next cycle
48. Tailored SDLC Models
• Any one model does not fit all projects
• If there is nothing that fits a particular project,
pick a model that comes close and modify it for
your needs.
• Project should consider risk but complete spiral
too much – start with spiral & pare it done
• Project delivered in increments but there are
serious reliability issues – combine incremental
model with the V-shaped model
• Each team must pick or customize a SDLC
model to fit its project
49. Agile Web references
DePaul web site has links to many Agile references
http://se.cs.depaul.edu/ise/agile.htm
50. Quality – the degree to which the software
satisfies stated and implied requirements
• Absence of system crashes
• Correspondence between the software and the users’
expectations
• Performance to specified requirements
Quality must be controlled because it lowers production
speed, increases maintenance costs and can adversely
affect business
51. Quality Assurance Plan
• The plan for quality assurance activities should be in
writing
• Decide if a separate group should perform the quality
assurance activities
• Some elements that should be considered by the plan
are: defect tracking, unit testing, source-code tracking,
technical reviews, integration testing and system testing.
52. Quality Assurance Plan
• Defect tracing – keeps track of each defect found, its
source, when it was detected, when it was resolved, how
it was resolved, etc
• Unit testing – each individual module is tested
• Source code tracing – step through source code line by
line
• Technical reviews – completed work is reviewed by
peers
• Integration testing -- exercise new code in combination
with code that already has been integrated
• System testing – execution of the software for the
purpose of finding defects.