Software process & characteristics

Software process

It is the way in which we produce software they are five generic framework activities that can be used during the development of programs.

1. Construction (code generation and testing)
2. Development (delivered to the customer as a complete entity a as a partially completed)
3. Communication (heavy interaction and collaboration with the customer)
4. Planning (establish a plan for the software engineering work that follows)
5. Modeling (creation of models to help developer & customer to better understand software requirements)

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The software process is the set of activities and associate results that produced a software product.

Following are the fundamental process activities

Software Specifications

                                The functionality of the software and constrains on its operation must be defined

Software development

                               The software must be developed that meet the specifications

Software Validation

                              The software must be validated to ensure that it performs what the customer needs

Software Evolution

                              The software must evolve to meet the changing customer requirements

Following are the software process characteristics

·                  Understand ability
·        Visibility
·        Robustness
·        Reliability
·        Acceptability
·        Maintainability
·        Rapidity