Software Lifecycles and Iterative Development

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Software Lifecycles and Iterative Development

• Fall 2006

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Agenda

• Deliverables
• NLT Friday, August 25 _at_ 2400 - Status Report 1
• Project Selection
• Team Formation/Roles/Contact information
• Project Status Report Format
• Project/Team Formation
• Team Signup
• Lecture Software Process Lifecycles

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Available Projects

• New
• High School Sports Quiz Program
• Visualization to support educational grants
• Tech recruitment Database
• Tech screen savers
• Still need a team for Earth Curator and ideally 1
  more for War Game Simulation

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Software Development Activities

• Lifecycle Selection
• System Engineering
• Requirements
• Determining Needs
• Analysis
• Design
• Coding
• Debugging
• Integration
• Testing

• Performance Testing Optimization
• Analysis Management
• Deployment
• Delivery
• Maintenance
• Upgrades

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Support Activities

• Project Planning and Tracking
• Customer Interaction
• Configuration Management
• Process Improvement
• Verification/Validation
• Reviews/Audits
• Training
• Documentation
• Personnel Management

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Lifecycles

• Major Task Identification
• Sequencing
• General model to be tailored

In the beginning was......
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Waterfall Model
Pfleeger 98
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Code and Fix

• Really Bad
• Really Common
• Advantage
• No Overhead
• No Expertise
• Disadvantage
• No means of assessing progress
• Flawed design can lead to throwaway
• Throwaway project only

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Spiral Model
Risk analysis
Constraints
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Pfleeger 98
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Risk analysis
Constraints
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Alternatives
Risk analysis
Constraints
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3
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Alternatives
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Alternatives
Risk analysis
Proto
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Proto
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Proto
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Constraints
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type
type
type
Alternatives
Prototype
Budget
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Budget
Budget
Budget
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start
Detailed
Requirements,
Concept of
Software
design
life-cycle plan
operation
design
Software
requirements
Development
Validated
Integration
plan
requirements
Code
and test plan
Validated,
verified design
Unit test
System
test
Acceptance
Implementation
test
plan
PLAN
DEVELOP AND TEST
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Spiral

• Highly sophisticated
• Each spiral addresses one or more risks in
  development
• Move on only when risk is acceptable
• Main disadvantage is complication
• Main advantage is risk reduction

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Evolutionary Prototyping
Initial Concept
Design and Implement Initial Prototype
Refine Prototype Until Acceptance
Complete And Release Prototype
Use for rapidly changing requirements Customer
wont commit to specification No one really
understands what they want
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Staged Delivery
Concept Analysis
Stage 1 Detailed Design, Code Test
Requirements Analysis
Stage 2 Design, Code Test
Architectural Design
Stage n Design, Code Test
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Combinations (Tailoring)

• Waterfall with risk reduction (Spiral
  Waterfall)
• Evolutionary Delivery (Staged Delivery
  Evolutionary Prototyping)
• Design to Schedule (Staged Delivery Scope
  reduction)

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Extreme Programming
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Common Themes

• Iteration
• Each iteration a mini-project
• Duration 1-6 weeks
• Each piece is not a prototype, but part of the
  final system
• Understand risk vs. business value in planning
  iterations
• Put pieces of the system into users hands as
  early as possible

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Common Themes

• Timeboxing
• Setting the date for an iteration
• Date cannot change
• Only functionality can change
• Are of short duration (not a 16 week timebox)

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Iterative Development

• Not all requirements known up front.
• Product vision and top n high-priority
  requirements are known
• No requirements changes inside an iteration.
  (Customer Negotiation)
• Customer agrees on what requirements are in each
  timeboxed iteration.