What is the Software Development Life Cycle?

The Software Development Life Cycle is a process that ensures good software is built.  Each phase in the life cycle has its own process and deliverables that feed into the next phase.  There are typically 5 phases starting with the analysis and requirements gathering and ending with the implementation.  Let’s look in greater detail at each phase:

There are following six phases in every Software development life cycle model:

1. Requirement gathering and analysis
2. Design
3. Implementation or coding
4. Testing
5. Deployment
6. Maintenance