The document describes different software development processes and models. It discusses the waterfall model, incremental development, reuse-oriented development, and the spiral model. The waterfall model involves sequential phases from requirements to maintenance. Incremental development interleaves specification, development and validation. Reuse focuses on assembling systems from existing components. The spiral model is iterative with risk assessment at each loop. The Rational Unified Process combines elements of these models into phases of inception, elaboration, construction and transition.
This document discusses software processes and models. It covers the following key points:
1. Software processes involve activities like specification, design, implementation, validation and evolution to develop software systems. Common process models include waterfall, incremental development and reuse-oriented development.
2. Processes need to cope with inevitable changes. This can involve prototyping to avoid rework or using incremental development and delivery to more easily accommodate changes.
3. The Rational Unified Process is a modern process model with phases for inception, elaboration, construction and transition. It advocates iterative development and managing requirements and quality.
The document discusses software processes and process models. It covers key topics like the waterfall model, incremental development, and reuse-oriented processes. The main activities involved in any software process are specification, design and implementation, validation, and evolution. Specification defines what the system should do, design implements the system structure, validation checks it meets requirements, and evolution handles changing needs. Process models organize these activities differently, like sequentially in waterfall or interleaved in incremental development.
The document discusses software processes and provides an overview of key concepts:
1) It describes different software process models including waterfall, incremental development, and reuse-oriented processes.
2) It covers important process activities like requirements specification, design/implementation, validation, and evolution.
3) It discusses approaches for coping with changing requirements like prototyping and incremental delivery.
The Rational Unified Process (RUP) is presented as a modern generic software process that incorporates elements of other process models.
The document provides an overview of software processes and models. It discusses the waterfall model, incremental development, and reuse-oriented processes. The waterfall model involves separate sequential phases while incremental development interleaves specification, development and validation. The Rational Unified Process (RUP) combines elements of different models and involves iterative phases of inception, elaboration, construction and transition. RUP aims to reduce risks and accommodate changes through incremental delivery and development.
The document summarizes key aspects of software processes as discussed in Chapter 2, including common process models like waterfall, incremental development, and reuse-oriented processes. It also describes common process activities like specification, design/implementation, validation, and evolution. A detailed explanation is provided of the Rational Unified Process (RUP), which incorporates elements of other models and defines phases like inception, elaboration, construction, and transition that may be iterated.
The document summarizes key aspects of software processes as discussed in Chapter 2, including common process models like waterfall, incremental development, and reuse-oriented processes. It also describes common process activities like specification, design/implementation, validation, and evolution. A detailed explanation is provided of the Rational Unified Process (RUP), which incorporates elements of other models and defines phases like inception, elaboration, construction, and transition that may be iterated.
Ian Sommerville, Software Engineering, 9th Edition Ch2Mohammed Romi
This document summarizes key aspects of software processes and models. It discusses the basic activities involved in software development like specification, design, implementation, validation and evolution. It describes process models like waterfall, incremental development and reuse-oriented processes. The waterfall model involves sequential phases while incremental development interleaves activities. Validation includes testing stages from unit to system level. The document also covers designing for change and evolution.
The software process involves specification, design and implementation, validation, and evolution activities. It can be modeled using plan-driven approaches like the waterfall model or agile approaches. The waterfall model involves separate sequential phases while incremental development interleaves activities. Reuse-oriented processes focus on assembling systems from existing components. Real processes combine elements of different models. Specification defines system requirements through requirements engineering. Design translates requirements into a software structure and implementation creates an executable program. Validation verifies the system meets requirements through testing. Evolution maintains and changes the system in response to changing needs.
This document discusses software processes and models. It covers the following key points:
1. Software processes involve activities like specification, design, implementation, validation and evolution to develop software systems. Common process models include waterfall, incremental development and reuse-oriented development.
2. Processes need to cope with inevitable changes. This can involve prototyping to avoid rework or using incremental development and delivery to more easily accommodate changes.
3. The Rational Unified Process is a modern process model with phases for inception, elaboration, construction and transition. It advocates iterative development and managing requirements and quality.
The document discusses software processes and process models. It covers key topics like the waterfall model, incremental development, and reuse-oriented processes. The main activities involved in any software process are specification, design and implementation, validation, and evolution. Specification defines what the system should do, design implements the system structure, validation checks it meets requirements, and evolution handles changing needs. Process models organize these activities differently, like sequentially in waterfall or interleaved in incremental development.
The document discusses software processes and provides an overview of key concepts:
1) It describes different software process models including waterfall, incremental development, and reuse-oriented processes.
2) It covers important process activities like requirements specification, design/implementation, validation, and evolution.
3) It discusses approaches for coping with changing requirements like prototyping and incremental delivery.
The Rational Unified Process (RUP) is presented as a modern generic software process that incorporates elements of other process models.
The document provides an overview of software processes and models. It discusses the waterfall model, incremental development, and reuse-oriented processes. The waterfall model involves separate sequential phases while incremental development interleaves specification, development and validation. The Rational Unified Process (RUP) combines elements of different models and involves iterative phases of inception, elaboration, construction and transition. RUP aims to reduce risks and accommodate changes through incremental delivery and development.
The document summarizes key aspects of software processes as discussed in Chapter 2, including common process models like waterfall, incremental development, and reuse-oriented processes. It also describes common process activities like specification, design/implementation, validation, and evolution. A detailed explanation is provided of the Rational Unified Process (RUP), which incorporates elements of other models and defines phases like inception, elaboration, construction, and transition that may be iterated.
The document summarizes key aspects of software processes as discussed in Chapter 2, including common process models like waterfall, incremental development, and reuse-oriented processes. It also describes common process activities like specification, design/implementation, validation, and evolution. A detailed explanation is provided of the Rational Unified Process (RUP), which incorporates elements of other models and defines phases like inception, elaboration, construction, and transition that may be iterated.
Ian Sommerville, Software Engineering, 9th Edition Ch2Mohammed Romi
This document summarizes key aspects of software processes and models. It discusses the basic activities involved in software development like specification, design, implementation, validation and evolution. It describes process models like waterfall, incremental development and reuse-oriented processes. The waterfall model involves sequential phases while incremental development interleaves activities. Validation includes testing stages from unit to system level. The document also covers designing for change and evolution.
The software process involves specification, design and implementation, validation, and evolution activities. It can be modeled using plan-driven approaches like the waterfall model or agile approaches. The waterfall model involves separate sequential phases while incremental development interleaves activities. Reuse-oriented processes focus on assembling systems from existing components. Real processes combine elements of different models. Specification defines system requirements through requirements engineering. Design translates requirements into a software structure and implementation creates an executable program. Validation verifies the system meets requirements through testing. Evolution maintains and changes the system in response to changing needs.
This document discusses different software processes and activities. It covers incremental development, which delivers software in increments and allows for early customer feedback. Reuse-oriented engineering focuses on integrating existing components. Key process activities include specification, design/implementation, validation, and evolution. Specification involves requirements analysis. Design translates requirements into a structure, while implementation creates an executable program. Validation verifies the system meets requirements through testing. Evolution allows software to change with changing needs.
This document discusses software processes and activities. It covers topics like software process models, process activities, and process improvement. Some key points include: a software process involves specification, design, implementation, validation and evolution; process models include waterfall, incremental development, and configuration/integration; activities involve specification, design/implementation, validation and evolution; and testing is a major validation activity involving component, system and customer testing.
This document provides an overview of software processes and models. It discusses topics like specification, design, implementation, validation, evolution, and process improvement. Common process models like waterfall, incremental development, and integration/configuration are described. The document also covers process activities, coping with change through techniques like prototyping and incremental delivery, and process improvement through models like the spiral model.
This document discusses software processes and process models. It covers topics such as the waterfall model, incremental development, integration and configuration, process activities including specification, design, implementation, validation and evolution. It also discusses coping with change through techniques like prototyping and incremental delivery. The key aspects of software process models, activities, and improvement are summarized.
this is for software engineering and design used to make attention of what you gonnal do in your next session i hope you to enjoy by reading this lecture
The document discusses software processes and activities. It describes common process models like waterfall, incremental development, and configuration management. The key activities involved in most processes are specification, development, validation, and evolution. Specification defines system requirements while development includes design, implementation, and debugging. Validation ensures the system meets requirements through testing. Processes also evolve to adapt to changing needs.
Slide 2.
#Topics covered (Software process models
#Process activities
#Coping with change
#Process improvement)
Slide 3.
(The software process)
# A structured set of activities required to develop a software system.
# Many different software processes but all involve:
Specification – defining what the system should do;
Design and implementation – defining the organization of the system and implementing the system;
Validation – checking that it does what the customer wants;
Evolution – changing the system in response to changing customer needs.
# A software process model is an abstract representation of a process. It presents a description of a process from some particular perspective.
Slide
The document discusses software process models. It describes the waterfall model, which involves requirements analysis, design, implementation, testing, and maintenance phases completed sequentially. However, the waterfall model is inflexible and doesn't adapt well to changing requirements. The document then introduces incremental development as an alternative, delivering the system in prioritized increments to allow for adapting to changes more easily.
ISE_Lecture Week 2-SW Process Models.pptHumzaWaris1
The document discusses various software development processes. It begins by defining a software process as a framework that describes the activities performed at each stage of a project. It then categorizes common activities as software specification, development, validation, and evolution. The document goes on to describe plan-driven and agile processes, and notes that most practical processes include elements of both. It provides details on specific process models like waterfall, V-model, prototyping, incremental development, component-based development, and spiral model.
The document discusses software processes and managing change. It describes prototyping as a way to clarify requirements and explore design options before significant rework is required. Incremental development and delivery are presented as ways to accommodate change at low cost by developing and deploying the system in prioritized increments. The Rational Unified Process is introduced as an iterative process with phases for inception, elaboration, construction, and transition, with activities like requirements management and component-based design carried out within each phase through multiple iterations.
Agenda
Components Involved
Software process models
Waterfall Model/SDLC
Incremental Process
Evolutionary Process
Concurrent models
Process activities
Coping with change
Process improvement
The document discusses software processes for coping with change, including prototyping and incremental delivery approaches. Prototyping can help reduce costs by anticipating changes early. Incremental delivery breaks a system into prioritized parts for iterative development and delivery of value. Boehm's spiral model also takes a risk-driven iterative approach representing the software process as a spiral of objectives, risks, development, and planning loops. While influential, the spiral model is rarely used directly in practice.
The document discusses software process models and activities. It introduces generic process models like waterfall, evolutionary development, and component-based development. It also covers the Rational Unified Process model and its phases. Finally, it discusses various software engineering activities like specification, design, implementation, testing, and evolution as well as the role of computer-aided software engineering tools in supporting software processes.
Process in Software Engineering/4'ps in Software EngineerinMuhammadSufianJani
The document discusses software processes and provides an overview of various process models. It describes the Rational Unified Process (RUP) which includes phases of inception, elaboration, construction, and transition. Within each phase, activities like requirements gathering, analysis, design, implementation, and testing are performed iteratively. The RUP advocates for iterative development, managing requirements, using component-based architectures, visually modeling software, verifying quality, and controlling changes. It provides a flexible approach to software development through incremental iterations within and across phases.
This document discusses three software process models: the waterfall model, incremental development, and reuse-oriented software engineering. The waterfall model represents the software development process as sequential phases such as requirements, design, implementation, testing, and maintenance. Incremental development interleaves these phases and develops the system in a series of versions that add new functionality. Reuse-oriented engineering focuses on integrating existing reusable components rather than developing everything from scratch.
This is about software engineering.Software engineers apply engineering principles and knowledge of programming languages to build software solutions for end users. Software engineers design and develop computer games, business applications, operating systems, network control systems, and middleware—to name just a few of the many career paths available.
The document discusses various aspects of the software process including software process models, generic process models like waterfall model and evolutionary development, process iteration, and system requirements specification. It provides details on each topic with definitions, characteristics, advantages and diagrams. The key steps in software process are specified as software specifications, design and implementation, validation, and evolution. Generic process models and specific models like waterfall, evolutionary development, and incremental delivery are explained.
Miss Aster Noor introduces the concepts of software processes and process models. The chapter covers software process models like waterfall, incremental development, and integration/configuration. It discusses the core process activities of requirements engineering, development, testing, and evolution. The chapter aims to explain why processes must adapt to changes and how process improvement affects quality.
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In migrating a massive, business-critical database, the Chief Technology Officer's (CTO) perspective is crucial. This endeavor requires meticulous planning, risk assessment, and a structured approach to ensure minimal disruption and maximum data integrity during the transition. The CTO's role involves overseeing technical strategies, evaluating the impact on operations, ensuring data security, and coordinating with relevant teams to execute a seamless migration while mitigating potential risks. The focus is on maintaining continuity, optimising performance, and safeguarding the business's essential data throughout the migration process
This document discusses different software processes and activities. It covers incremental development, which delivers software in increments and allows for early customer feedback. Reuse-oriented engineering focuses on integrating existing components. Key process activities include specification, design/implementation, validation, and evolution. Specification involves requirements analysis. Design translates requirements into a structure, while implementation creates an executable program. Validation verifies the system meets requirements through testing. Evolution allows software to change with changing needs.
This document discusses software processes and activities. It covers topics like software process models, process activities, and process improvement. Some key points include: a software process involves specification, design, implementation, validation and evolution; process models include waterfall, incremental development, and configuration/integration; activities involve specification, design/implementation, validation and evolution; and testing is a major validation activity involving component, system and customer testing.
This document provides an overview of software processes and models. It discusses topics like specification, design, implementation, validation, evolution, and process improvement. Common process models like waterfall, incremental development, and integration/configuration are described. The document also covers process activities, coping with change through techniques like prototyping and incremental delivery, and process improvement through models like the spiral model.
This document discusses software processes and process models. It covers topics such as the waterfall model, incremental development, integration and configuration, process activities including specification, design, implementation, validation and evolution. It also discusses coping with change through techniques like prototyping and incremental delivery. The key aspects of software process models, activities, and improvement are summarized.
this is for software engineering and design used to make attention of what you gonnal do in your next session i hope you to enjoy by reading this lecture
The document discusses software processes and activities. It describes common process models like waterfall, incremental development, and configuration management. The key activities involved in most processes are specification, development, validation, and evolution. Specification defines system requirements while development includes design, implementation, and debugging. Validation ensures the system meets requirements through testing. Processes also evolve to adapt to changing needs.
Slide 2.
#Topics covered (Software process models
#Process activities
#Coping with change
#Process improvement)
Slide 3.
(The software process)
# A structured set of activities required to develop a software system.
# Many different software processes but all involve:
Specification – defining what the system should do;
Design and implementation – defining the organization of the system and implementing the system;
Validation – checking that it does what the customer wants;
Evolution – changing the system in response to changing customer needs.
# A software process model is an abstract representation of a process. It presents a description of a process from some particular perspective.
Slide
The document discusses software process models. It describes the waterfall model, which involves requirements analysis, design, implementation, testing, and maintenance phases completed sequentially. However, the waterfall model is inflexible and doesn't adapt well to changing requirements. The document then introduces incremental development as an alternative, delivering the system in prioritized increments to allow for adapting to changes more easily.
ISE_Lecture Week 2-SW Process Models.pptHumzaWaris1
The document discusses various software development processes. It begins by defining a software process as a framework that describes the activities performed at each stage of a project. It then categorizes common activities as software specification, development, validation, and evolution. The document goes on to describe plan-driven and agile processes, and notes that most practical processes include elements of both. It provides details on specific process models like waterfall, V-model, prototyping, incremental development, component-based development, and spiral model.
The document discusses software processes and managing change. It describes prototyping as a way to clarify requirements and explore design options before significant rework is required. Incremental development and delivery are presented as ways to accommodate change at low cost by developing and deploying the system in prioritized increments. The Rational Unified Process is introduced as an iterative process with phases for inception, elaboration, construction, and transition, with activities like requirements management and component-based design carried out within each phase through multiple iterations.
Agenda
Components Involved
Software process models
Waterfall Model/SDLC
Incremental Process
Evolutionary Process
Concurrent models
Process activities
Coping with change
Process improvement
The document discusses software processes for coping with change, including prototyping and incremental delivery approaches. Prototyping can help reduce costs by anticipating changes early. Incremental delivery breaks a system into prioritized parts for iterative development and delivery of value. Boehm's spiral model also takes a risk-driven iterative approach representing the software process as a spiral of objectives, risks, development, and planning loops. While influential, the spiral model is rarely used directly in practice.
The document discusses software process models and activities. It introduces generic process models like waterfall, evolutionary development, and component-based development. It also covers the Rational Unified Process model and its phases. Finally, it discusses various software engineering activities like specification, design, implementation, testing, and evolution as well as the role of computer-aided software engineering tools in supporting software processes.
Process in Software Engineering/4'ps in Software EngineerinMuhammadSufianJani
The document discusses software processes and provides an overview of various process models. It describes the Rational Unified Process (RUP) which includes phases of inception, elaboration, construction, and transition. Within each phase, activities like requirements gathering, analysis, design, implementation, and testing are performed iteratively. The RUP advocates for iterative development, managing requirements, using component-based architectures, visually modeling software, verifying quality, and controlling changes. It provides a flexible approach to software development through incremental iterations within and across phases.
This document discusses three software process models: the waterfall model, incremental development, and reuse-oriented software engineering. The waterfall model represents the software development process as sequential phases such as requirements, design, implementation, testing, and maintenance. Incremental development interleaves these phases and develops the system in a series of versions that add new functionality. Reuse-oriented engineering focuses on integrating existing reusable components rather than developing everything from scratch.
This is about software engineering.Software engineers apply engineering principles and knowledge of programming languages to build software solutions for end users. Software engineers design and develop computer games, business applications, operating systems, network control systems, and middleware—to name just a few of the many career paths available.
The document discusses various aspects of the software process including software process models, generic process models like waterfall model and evolutionary development, process iteration, and system requirements specification. It provides details on each topic with definitions, characteristics, advantages and diagrams. The key steps in software process are specified as software specifications, design and implementation, validation, and evolution. Generic process models and specific models like waterfall, evolutionary development, and incremental delivery are explained.
Miss Aster Noor introduces the concepts of software processes and process models. The chapter covers software process models like waterfall, incremental development, and integration/configuration. It discusses the core process activities of requirements engineering, development, testing, and evolution. The chapter aims to explain why processes must adapt to changes and how process improvement affects quality.
CTO Insights: Steering a High-Stakes Database MigrationScyllaDB
In migrating a massive, business-critical database, the Chief Technology Officer's (CTO) perspective is crucial. This endeavor requires meticulous planning, risk assessment, and a structured approach to ensure minimal disruption and maximum data integrity during the transition. The CTO's role involves overseeing technical strategies, evaluating the impact on operations, ensuring data security, and coordinating with relevant teams to execute a seamless migration while mitigating potential risks. The focus is on maintaining continuity, optimising performance, and safeguarding the business's essential data throughout the migration process
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2. The software process
A structured set of activities required to develop a
software system.
Many different software processes but all involve:
Specification – defining what the system should do;
Design and implementation – defining the organization of the
system and implementing the system;
Validation – checking that it does what the customer wants;
Evolution – changing the system in response to changing
customer needs.
A software process model is an abstract representation
of a process. It presents a description of a process from
some particular perspective.
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3. Software process descriptions
When we describe and discuss processes, we usually
talk about the activities in these processes such as
specifying a data model, designing a user interface, etc.
and the ordering of these activities.
Process descriptions may also include:
Products, which are the outcomes of a process activity;
Roles, which reflect the responsibilities of the people involved in
the process;
Pre- and post-conditions, which are statements that are true
before and after a process activity has been enacted or a
product produced.
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4. Plan-driven and agile processes
Plan-driven processes are processes where all of the
process activities are planned in advance and progress
is measured against this plan.
In agile processes, planning is incremental and it is
easier to change the process to reflect changing
customer requirements.
In practice, most practical processes include elements of
both plan-driven and agile approaches.
There are no right or wrong software processes.
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5. Software process models
The waterfall model
Plan-driven model. Separate and distinct phases of specification
and development.
Incremental development
Specification, development and validation are interleaved. May
be plan-driven or agile.
Reuse-oriented software engineering
The system is assembled from existing components. May be
plan-driven or agile.
In practice, most large systems are developed using a
process that incorporates elements from all of these
models.
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7. Waterfall model phases
There are separate identified phases in the waterfall
model:
Requirements analysis and definition
System and software design
Implementation and unit testing
Integration and system testing
Operation and maintenance
The main drawback of the waterfall model is the difficulty
of accommodating change after the process is
underway. In principle, a phase has to be complete
before moving onto the next phase.
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8. Waterfall model problems
Inflexible partitioning of the project into distinct stages
makes it difficult to respond to changing customer
requirements.
Therefore, this model is only appropriate when the requirements
are well-understood and changes will be fairly limited during the
design process.
Few business systems have stable requirements.
The waterfall model is mostly used for large systems
engineering projects where a system is developed at
several sites.
In those circumstances, the plan-driven nature of the waterfall
model helps coordinate the work.
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10. Incremental development benefits
The cost of accommodating changing customer
requirements is reduced.
The amount of analysis and documentation that has to be
redone is much less than is required with the waterfall model.
It is easier to get customer feedback on the development
work that has been done.
Customers can comment on demonstrations of the software and
see how much has been implemented.
More rapid delivery and deployment of useful software to
the customer is possible.
Customers are able to use and gain value from the software
earlier than is possible with a waterfall process.
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11. Incremental development problems
The process is not visible.
Managers need regular deliverables to measure progress. If
systems are developed quickly, it is not cost-effective to produce
documents that reflect every version of the system.
System structure tends to degrade as new increments
are added.
Unless time and money is spent on refactoring to improve the
software, regular change tends to corrupt its structure.
Incorporating further software changes becomes increasingly
difficult and costly.
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12. Reuse-oriented software engineering
Based on systematic reuse where systems are
integrated from existing components or COTS
(Commercial-off-the-shelf) systems.
Process stages
Component analysis;
Requirements modification;
System design with reuse;
Development and integration.
Reuse is now the standard approach for building many
types of business system
Reuse covered in more depth in Chapter 16.
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14. Types of software component
Web services that are developed according to service
standards and which are available for remote invocation.
Collections of objects that are developed as a package
to be integrated with a component framework such as
.NET or J2EE.
Stand-alone software systems (COTS) that are
configured for use in a particular environment.
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15. Process activities
Real software processes are inter-leaved sequences of
technical, collaborative and managerial activities with the
overall goal of specifying, designing, implementing and
testing a software system.
The four basic process activities of specification,
development, validation and evolution are organized
differently in different development processes. In the
waterfall model, they are organized in sequence,
whereas in incremental development they are inter-
leaved.
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16. Software specification
The process of establishing what services are required
and the constraints on the system’s operation and
development.
Requirements engineering process
Feasibility study
• Is it technically and financially feasible to build the system?
Requirements elicitation and analysis
• What do the system stakeholders require or expect from the system?
Requirements specification
• Defining the requirements in detail
Requirements validation
• Checking the validity of the requirements
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18. Software design and implementation
The process of converting the system specification into
an executable system.
Software design
Design a software structure that realises the specification;
Implementation
Translate this structure into an executable program;
The activities of design and implementation are closely
related and may be inter-leaved.
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19. A general model of the design process
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20. Design activities
Architectural design, where you identify the overall
structure of the system, the principal components
(sometimes called sub-systems or modules), their
relationships and how they are distributed.
Interface design, where you define the interfaces
between system components.
Component design, where you take each system
component and design how it will operate.
Database design, where you design the system data
structures and how these are to be represented in a
database.
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21. Software validation
Verification and validation (V & V) is intended to show
that a system conforms to its specification and meets the
requirements of the system customer.
Involves checking and review processes and system
testing.
System testing involves executing the system with test
cases that are derived from the specification of the real
data to be processed by the system.
Testing is the most commonly used V & V activity.
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23. Testing stages
Development or component testing
Individual components are tested independently;
Components may be functions or objects or coherent groupings
of these entities.
System testing
Testing of the system as a whole. Testing of emergent properties
is particularly important.
Acceptance testing
Testing with customer data to check that the system meets the
customer’s needs.
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24. Testing phases in a plan-driven software
process
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25. Software evolution
Software is inherently flexible and can change.
As requirements change through changing business
circumstances, the software that supports the business
must also evolve and change.
Although there has been a demarcation between
development and evolution (maintenance) this is
increasingly irrelevant as fewer and fewer systems are
completely new.
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27. Key points
Software processes are the activities involved in
producing a software system. Software process models
are abstract representations of these processes.
General process models describe the organization of
software processes. Examples of these general models
include the ‘waterfall’ model, incremental development,
and reuse-oriented development.
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28. Key points
Requirements engineering is the process of developing a
software specification.
Design and implementation processes are concerned
with transforming a requirements specification into an
executable software system.
Software validation is the process of checking that the
system conforms to its specification and that it meets the
real needs of the users of the system.
Software evolution takes place when you change
existing software systems to meet new requirements.
The software must evolve to remain useful.
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30. Coping with change
Change is inevitable in all large software projects.
Business changes lead to new and changed system
requirements
New technologies open up new possibilities for improving
implementations
Changing platforms require application changes
Change leads to rework so the costs of change include
both rework (e.g. re-analysing requirements) as well as
the costs of implementing new functionality
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31. Reducing the costs of rework
Change avoidance, where the software process includes
activities that can anticipate possible changes before
significant rework is required.
For example, a prototype system may be developed to show
some key features of the system to customers.
Change tolerance, where the process is designed so that
changes can be accommodated at relatively low cost.
This normally involves some form of incremental development.
Proposed changes may be implemented in increments that have
not yet been developed. If this is impossible, then only a single
increment (a small part of the system) may have be altered to
incorporate the change.
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32. Software prototyping
A prototype is an initial version of a system used to
demonstrate concepts and try out design options.
A prototype can be used in:
The requirements engineering process to help with requirements
elicitation and validation;
In design processes to explore options and develop a UI design;
In the testing process to run back-to-back tests.
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33. Benefits of prototyping
Improved system usability.
A closer match to users’ real needs.
Improved design quality.
Improved maintainability.
Reduced development effort.
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35. Prototype development
May be based on rapid prototyping languages or tools
May involve leaving out functionality
Prototype should focus on areas of the product that are not well-
understood;
Error checking and recovery may not be included in the
prototype;
Focus on functional rather than non-functional requirements
such as reliability and security
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36. Throw-away prototypes
Prototypes should be discarded after development as
they are not a good basis for a production system:
It may be impossible to tune the system to meet non-functional
requirements;
Prototypes are normally undocumented;
The prototype structure is usually degraded through rapid
change;
The prototype probably will not meet normal organisational
quality standards.
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37. Incremental delivery
Rather than deliver the system as a single delivery, the
development and delivery is broken down into
increments with each increment delivering part of the
required functionality.
User requirements are prioritised and the highest priority
requirements are included in early increments.
Once the development of an increment is started, the
requirements are frozen though requirements for later
increments can continue to evolve.
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38. Incremental development and delivery
Incremental development
Develop the system in increments and evaluate each increment
before proceeding to the development of the next increment;
Normal approach used in agile methods;
Evaluation done by user/customer proxy.
Incremental delivery
Deploy an increment for use by end-users;
More realistic evaluation about practical use of software;
Difficult to implement for replacement systems as increments
have less functionality than the system being replaced.
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40. Incremental delivery advantages
Customer value can be delivered with each increment so
system functionality is available earlier.
Early increments act as a prototype to help elicit
requirements for later increments.
Lower risk of overall project failure.
The highest priority system services tend to receive the
most testing.
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41. Incremental delivery problems
Most systems require a set of basic facilities that are
used by different parts of the system.
As requirements are not defined in detail until an increment is to
be implemented, it can be hard to identify common facilities that
are needed by all increments.
The essence of iterative processes is that the
specification is developed in conjunction with the
software.
However, this conflicts with the procurement model of many
organizations, where the complete system specification is part of
the system development contract.
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42. Boehm’s spiral model
Process is represented as a spiral rather than as a
sequence of activities with backtracking.
Each loop in the spiral represents a phase in the
process.
No fixed phases such as specification or design - loops
in the spiral are chosen depending on what is required.
Risks are explicitly assessed and resolved throughout
the process.
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44. Spiral model sectors
Objective setting
Specific objectives for the phase are identified.
Risk assessment and reduction
Risks are assessed and activities put in place to reduce the key
risks.
Development and validation
A development model for the system is chosen which can be
any of the generic models.
Planning
The project is reviewed and the next phase of the spiral is
planned.
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45. Spiral model usage
Spiral model has been very influential in helping people
think about iteration in software processes and
introducing the risk-driven approach to development.
In practice, however, the model is rarely used as
published for practical software development.
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46. The Rational Unified Process
A modern generic process derived from the work on the
UML and associated process.
Brings together aspects of the 3 generic process models
discussed previously.
Normally described from 3 perspectives
A dynamic perspective that shows phases over time;
A static perspective that shows process activities;
A practive perspective that suggests good practice.
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47. Phases in the Rational Unified Process
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48. RUP phases
Inception
Establish the business case for the system.
Elaboration
Develop an understanding of the problem domain and the
system architecture.
Construction
System design, programming and testing.
Transition
Deploy the system in its operating environment.
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49. RUP iteration
In-phase iteration
Each phase is iterative with results developed incrementally.
Cross-phase iteration
As shown by the loop in the RUP model, the whole set of phases
may be enacted incrementally.
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50. Static workflows in the Rational Unified Process
Workflow Description
Business modelling The business processes are modelled using business
use cases.
Requirements Actors who interact with the system are identified and
use cases are developed to model the system
requirements.
Analysis and design A design model is created and documented using
architectural models, component models, object
models and sequence models.
Implementation The components in the system are implemented and
structured into implementation sub-systems.
Automatic code generation from design models helps
accelerate this process.
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51. Static workflows in the Rational Unified Process
Workflow Description
Testing Testing is an iterative process that is carried out in conjunction
with implementation. System testing follows the completion of
the implementation.
Deployment A product release is created, distributed to users and installed in
their workplace.
Configuration and
change management
This supporting workflow managed changes to the system (see
Chapter 25).
Project management This supporting workflow manages the system development (see
Chapters 22 and 23).
Environment This workflow is concerned with making appropriate software
tools available to the software development team.
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52. RUP good practice
Develop software iteratively
Plan increments based on customer priorities and deliver highest
priority increments first.
Manage requirements
Explicitly document customer requirements and keep track of
changes to these requirements.
Use component-based architectures
Organize the system architecture as a set of reusable
components.
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53. RUP good practice
Visually model software
Use graphical UML models to present static and dynamic views
of the software.
Verify software quality
Ensure that the software meet’s organizational quality standards.
Control changes to software
Manage software changes using a change management system
and configuration management tools.
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54. Key points
Processes should include activities to cope with change.
This may involve a prototyping phase that helps avoid
poor decisions on requirements and design.
Processes may be structured for iterative development
and delivery so that changes may be made without
disrupting the system as a whole.
The Rational Unified Process is a modern generic
process model that is organized into phases (inception,
elaboration, construction and transition) but separates
activities (requirements, analysis and design, etc.) from
these phases.
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