The Software Development Life Cycle is a process that produces software with the lowest cost and highest quality in the shortest time. SLDC includes a good plan of how to alter, develop, maintain, and replace a software system. SDLC also involves distinct stages which include planning, design, building testing, deployment, and maintenance. Popular SDLC models include spiral model, waterfall model, and agile model.
Software Development Life Cycle enables an organized path to completion and success of a project and a means of having the least errors. This can be a problem for the customers of the product due to bad procedures in the development process and costly to the Organisation as well. Correcting errors going back and forth over time can be very expensive. SDLC done well enables highest level of documentation and management control.
Each phase in SDLC requires responsible stakeholders. They include a business analyst for requirements, a system architect for design, a software developer for coding, a testing team or tester for testing, an operational team for implementation, and a production support team for maintenance (Kneuper, 2017).All these stakeholders work hand in hand in the SDLC process.
All stakeholders should collaborate to ensure that all steps are less painful in the software development cycle. This also reduces the money and time that is spent on re-work. In the User Acceptance Testing, the stakeholders should ensure that the design was converted correctly into the expected functional product. This ensures certainty of each shareholder to avoid any errors. In the design phase, the stakeholders need to make sure that their requirements are correctly interpreted in the design. These would increase the efficiency of every shareholder involved in the software development life cycle.
Reference
Kneuper, R. (2017). Sixty years of software development life cycle models. IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, 39(3), 41-54.