Session 2

SDLC & STLC

Agenda

 Introduction to SDLC
 Phases in SDLC
 Models in SDLC
 STLC
 Roles in a Testing team
 Testing Activities
Introduction to sdlc
Introduction

 SDLC is a structure imposed on the development of a software product

 There are several models for such processes, each describing approaches to a variety of
activities that take place during the process
 Various processes and methodologies have been developed over the last few decades to
improve software quality, with varying degrees of success
Introduction(continue)

 It is widely agreed that no single approach that will prevent project overruns and failures in
all cases
 Software projects that are large, complicated, poorly-specified, and involve unfamiliar
aspects, are still particularly vulnerable to large, unanticipated problems
Notably activities in Software engineering

 Requirements Analysis ,
 Specification
 Software architecture
 Implementation
 Testing
 Documentation
 Training and Support
 Maintenance
Software development cycle
A number of well-established software
development models
 Software development teams, taking into account its goals and the scale of a particular
project, and have a number of well-established software development models to choose
from
1. Waterfall
2. Prototype
3. Spiral
4. Agile
Original Waterfall Model

 The Waterfall model is a conventional, linear, sequentional or traditional waterfall software

life cycle model
 Development is seen as flowing steadily downwards through the phases of requirements
analysis, design, implementation, testing (validation), integration, and maintenance
Original Waterfall Model (Continue)
Basic Principles of Waterfall Model

 Project is divided into sequential phases, with some overlap and splash back acceptable
between phases
 Emphasis is on planning, time schedules, target dates, budgets and implementation of an
entire system at one time
 Tight control is maintained over the life of the project via extensive written documentation,
formal reviews, and approval/signoff by the user and information technology management
occurring at the end of most phases before beginning the next phase
Advantages of original waterFALL model

 Each stage has well defined deliverable or milestone

 It is simple to use and understand
 It acts as template into which methods for analysis, design, code test and maintenance can
be placed
Disadvantages of original waterFALL model

 The crucial disadvantage of this model is that testing is understood as a “one-time” action
at the end of the project just before the release of the operation. The test is seen as a “final
inspection”, an analogy to a manufacturing inspection before handing over the product to
the customer.
 High amounts of risk and uncertainty
 Inflexible
 Poor model for complex and object-oriented projects
Prototyping Model

 The prototyping model is a systems development method in which a prototype is built,

tested and then reworked as necessary until an acceptable outcome is achieved from which
the complete system or product can be developed.
 This model works best in scenarios where not all of the project requirements are known in
detail ahead of time.
Prototyping Model
 Prototyping principles

 Not a standalone, complete development methodology, but rather an approach to handling selected parts of a
larger, more traditional development methodology
 Attempts to reduce inherent project risk by breaking a project into smaller segments and providing more
ease-of-change during the development process
 User is involved throughout the development process, which increases the likelihood of user acceptance of
the final implementation
Prototyping principles(continue)

 Small-scale mock-ups of the system are developed following an iterative modification

process until the Prototype evolves to meet the users requirement
 While most prototypes are developed with the expectation that they will be discarded, it is
possible in some cases to evolve from prototype to working system
 A basic understanding of the fundamental business problem is necessary to avoid solving
the wrong problem
Prototyping’s advantages

 Early visibility of the prototype gives users an idea of what the final system looks like
Encourages active participation among users and producer
 Enables a higher output for user
 Cost effective (Development costs reduced)
 Increases system development speed
 Assists to identify any problems with the efficacy of earlier design, requirements analysis
and coding activities
Prototyping’s disadvantages

 Possibility of causing systems to be left unfinished.

 Possibility of implementing systems before they are ready.
 Producer might produce a system inadequate for overall organization needs.
 Often lack flexibility.
 Not suitable for large applications.
 Project management difficulties
Spiral Model

 The spiral model is a software development process combining elements of both design
and prototyping-in-stages, in an effort to combine advantages of top-down and bottom up
concepts.
 It is a meta-model, a model that can be used by other models
 The spiral model is mostly used in large projects.
Spiral Model
Spiral principles

 Focus is on risk assessment and on minimizing project risk by breaking a project into
smaller segments and providing more ease-of-change during the development process, as
well as providing the opportunity to evaluate risks and weigh consideration of project
continuation throughout the life cycle.
 Each cycle involves a progression through the same sequence of steps, for each part of the
product and for each of its levels of elaboration, from an overall concept-of-operation
document down to the coding of each individual program
Spiral principles(Continue)

 Each trip around the spiral traverses four basic quadrants:

 (1) determine objectives, alternatives, and constraints of the iteration;
 (2) evaluate alternatives; Identify and resolve risks;
 (3) develop and verify deliverables from the iteration;
 and (4) plan the next iteration
 Begin each cycle with an identification of stakeholders and their win conditions, and end
each cycle with review and commitment
Spiral’s advantages

 Every time a new prototype is obtained ,it is revaluated again and again by the
customer .so more customer involvement is there
 Better productivity through reuse capabilities
 Proper control over cost ,time and manpower requirement for a project work
 Errors are eliminated in early phases of project development only
Spiral’s disadvantages

 This model requires risk identification, its projection, risk assessment and risk management
which is not an easy task
 Cost and time estimations are also not very easy.
 This model is not suitable for smaller project as then the cost of risk analysis is greater
than cost of the entire project.
 Iterative and Incremental Development

Iterative and Incremental development is at the heart of a cyclic

software development process developed in response to the
weaknesses of the waterfall model.
Iterative and incremental development are essential parts of the
Rational Unified Process, Extreme Programming and generally
the various agile software development frameworks.
It follows a similar process to the “plan-do-check-act” cycle of
business process improvement.
 Agile Software Development
• Agile software development is a group of software development methods based on iterative and
incremental development, where requirements and solutions evolve through collaboration
between self-organizing, cross-functional teams.
– Methods

– Iterative

– incremental
• It promotes adaptive planning, evolutionary development and delivery, a time-boxed iterative
approach, and encourages rapid and flexible response to change.

• It is a conceptual framework that promotes foreseen interactions throughout the development

cycle.
Agile Software Development
Manifesto for Agile Software Development

• “We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it.
Through this work we have come to the value:
1. Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
2. Working software over comprehensive documentation
3. Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
4. Responding to change over following a plan

That is, while there is value in the items on the right, we value the items on the left more.”

Let’s look at these values to discern exactly what is meant.

Agile software development methods

 Adaptive software development (ASD)

 Agile modeling
 Agile unified process (AUP)
 Disciplined agile delivery
 Dynamic systems development method (DSDM)
 Extreme programming (XP)
 Feature-driven development (FDD)
 Lean software development
 Kanban
 Rapid application development (RAD)
 Scrum
 Scrumban
AGILE’s advantages

 Focus on Business Value

 Focus on Users
 Stakeholder Engagement
 Transparency
 Early and Predictable Delivery
 Allows for Change
 Promotes RPA at Scale
AGILE’s disadvantages

 Poor resource planning

 Limited documentation
 Fragmented output
 No finite end
 Difficult measurement
STLC
 Preparing Test
Software testers should be an expert in the below three components.

 Test plan: The software tester should determine the main objective of the test, decide on what to test, and
who should perform the test. Documentation at this phase allows all the stakeholders to see and understand
the test plan.

 Test Scenarios: Tester should place themselves in the user’s shoes to make the test scenarios. Test scenario
determines the action the user endeavors in a website or application. Test scenario is formed to ensure that all
the functionality of the software is working correctly.

 Test cases: Writing test cases is an essential skill that a software tester should possess. The tester should be
capable of writing both positive and negative test cases and getting the exact results.
Roles in a Testing Team

 Manual Testing Engineer

 Automated testing engineer
 Test Lead
 Test Manager
 Software Test Architect
Job Description for a Software Tester
Software tester job generally has the following qualities in the job description.

 Analyze the system specification

 Contribute to the test plan creation
 Prepare test scenarios
 Document test cases
 Collected test data
 Create test batches
 Execute test cases
 Report defects
 Track defects
 Perform regression testing
 Alter test cases and repeat the process
More reading

 Project Methodology Options- Page 51 of the textbook

References

 A Comparative Analysis of Different types of Models in Software Development Life

Cycle( Ms. Shikha maheshwari1 , Prof.Dinesh Ch. Jain2 ) from International Journal
of Advanced Research in Computer Science and Software Engineering - ISSN: 2277
128X