Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) is a process used by the software industry to design, develop and test high quality softwares. The SDLC aims to produce a high-quality software that meets or exceeds customer expectations, reaches completion within times and cost estimates.

SDLC can be described along a spectrum of agile to iterative to sequential methodologies. [agile] methodologies, such as XP and [scrum], focus on lightweight processes which allow for rapid changes (without necessarily following the pattern of SDLC approach) along the development cycle.

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