Farhan Faiz

(MS160400945)
(CS724)Software Process
Improvement

Topic:
A Complete Survey of Software Development
Models and its Failures
 INTRODUCTION
Software Development Models:

• Software systems come back and bear a series of passages that account for his or
her origin, initial development, productive operation, upkeep and retirement from on
e generation to a different.
• This text categorizes and examines variety of strategies for describing or modeling
however software system systems area unit developed. It begins with background
and definitions of ancient software package life cycle models that dominate most
textbook discussions and current software system development practices.
• This is often followed by an additional comprehensive review of the choice models
of software system evolution that area unit of current use because the basis for orga
nizing software package engineering comes and technologies.
 BACKGROUND
• Developing and maintaining software system systems involves a spread
of extremely interconnected activities. So as to manage these structured
set of activities varied models are developed over the years with variable
degree of success.
• These embody water model, repetitious development, Prototyping, Spiral
model, RAD. every product will labor under totally different states, betting
on the precise circumstances of every project and therefore, there are
totally different development models.
• The water Model was wide used as a result of it formalized bound
elementary method management necessities.
About Software Life Cycle Model

• A software package life cycle model is either a descriptive or

prescriptive characterization of however software package is or
ought to be developed.

• A descriptive model describes the history of however a specific

package was developed. Descriptive models are also used
because the basis for understanding and up software system
development processes or for building by trial and error grounded
prescriptive models.
 About Software Process Model

• In distinction to code life cycle models, code method models usually

represent a networked sequence of activities, objects, transformations and
events that embody ways for accomplishing code evolution.
• Such models will be accustomed develop additional precise and formalized
descriptions of code life cycle activities. Their power emerges from their
utilization of a sufficiently made notation, syntax or linguistics usually
appropriate for machine process.
• Software method networks will be viewed as representing multiple
interconnected task chains (Kling 1982, Garg 1989).
TRADITIONAL SOFTWARE LIFE CYCLE MODELS

• Traditional models of software system evolution are with U.S.A. since the
earliest days of software system engineering. During this section, we have a
tendency to determine four.
• The classic software system life cycle or waterfall chart and stepwise
refinement models square measure wide instantiated in exactly concerning
all books on trendy programming practices and software system
engineering The progressive unleash model is closely associated with
industrial practices wherever it most frequently happens.
• Military standards primarily based models have conjointly reified sure sorts
of the classic life cycle model into needed observe for presidency
contractors.
 Classic Software Life Cycle

• The classic software system life cycle is usually delineated as an easy

prescriptive waterfall software system part model wherever software
system evolution take through associate orderly sequence of transitions
from one part to consecutive so as (Royce 1970).
• Such models jibe finite state machine descriptions of software system
evolution. However these models are maybe most helpful in serving to
structure, staff and manage giant software system development comes in
advanced structure settings, that was one among the first functions
(Royce 1970, Jakob Behmen 1976).
 STEPWISE REFINEMENT
• In this approach code systems are developed through the progressive
refinement and improvement of high-level system specifications into ASCI
I text file parts (Wirth 1971, Mili 1986).
• However the selection and order of those steps to settle on and those
refinements to use stay unsaid. Instead rationalization is anticipated to
emerge inside the heuristics and skills that are no inheritable and applied
through more and more competent follow.
• This model has been only and wide applied in serving to show individual
programmers a way to organize their code development work.
INCREMENTAL DEVELOPMENT AND RELEASE

• Developing systems through progressive unharnessed needs initial

providing essential operative functions, then providing system users with
improved additional capable versions of a system at regular intervals
(Basili 1975).

• This model combines the classic computer code life cycle with repetitious
improvement at the extent of system development organization. It
additionally supports a technique to periodically distribute computer code
maintenance updates and services to distributed user communities.
INDUSTRIAL AND MILITARY STANDARDS, AND CAPABILITY MODELS

• Industrial corporations typically adopt some variation of the classic model

because the basis for standardizing their software system development
practices (Royce 1970, Boehm 1976, Distaso 1980, Humphrey 1985,
Scacchi 1984, Somerville 1999).

• Such standardization is usually intended by must alter or eliminate

complications that emerge throughout giant software system development
or project management.
ALTERNATIVES TO THE TRADITIONAL SOFTWARE
LIFE CYCLE MODELS

• There is a unit a minimum of 3 various sets of models of package

development. These models area unit alternatives to the standard
package life cycle models.
• These 3 sets focus of attention to either the product, production process
es, or production settings related to package development. put together
these various models area unit finer-grained, usually elaborated to the
purpose of procedure rationalization, additional usually by trial and error
grounded, and in some cases address the role of recent automatic techn
ologies in facilitating package development.
• As these models don't seem to be in widespread observe, we tend to exa
mine every set of models within the following sections.
SOFTWARE PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT MODELS

• Software product represents the information-intensive artifacts that are

incrementally made and iteratively revised through a software system
development effort.
• Such efforts are sculptural exploitation product life cycle models. These
development models represent associate degree biological process revision
to the standard software system life cycle models (MacCormack 2001).
• Every of those technologies seek to modify the creation of possible software
system implementations either earlier within the software system
development effort or earlier.
RAPID PROTOTYPING AND JOINT APPLICATION
DEVELOPMENT

• Prototyping may be a technique for providing a reduced practicality or

a restricted performance version of a code early in its development
(Balzer 1983, Budde 1984, Hekmatpour 1987).

• In distinction to the classic system life cycle, prototyping is associate

approach whereby a lot of stress, activity and process square measure
directed to the first stages of software system development
requirements analysis and practical specification
 Lack of User Involvement
• The analysis corporations and tutorial establishment has targeted on the
shortage of govt support and user involvement as 2 main difficulties in
managing IT comes.
• Lack of user involvement has established fatal for several comes. While not
user involvement no one within the business feels committed to a system
and may even be hostile to that.
• The developer should involve the user because it helps in necessities
stimulant and delivering all practicality of the project.
ANALYSIS ON FAILURE OF SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT

• Software fails after they don't meet the standards for fulfillment. Most of the IT runs
over budget or area unit terminated untimely and people that reach completion
typically fall way wanting meeting user expectations and business performance goals.
• Here we have a tendency to discuss numerous reports on failure of software package
projected by Dan Goliath [15].There is many updates to the Myles Standish Chaos
reports. The 2004 report shows:

• Successful Projects: 29%

• Challenged Projects: 53%

 CONCLUSION

• This paper makes an effort to check kind of software system method

models and analysis varied problems in software system development
comes.
• Discussion is finished on varied re-ports that exhibit the failure of
merchandise. Comes run over budget or square measure terminated
untimely and people that reach completion typically fall so much in need
of meeting user expectations and business functionalities.
• Few very important factors square measure mentioned that cause the
failure of comes.
 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

• First of all we want to say thanks to Virtual University of

Pakistan on giving us the chance to make a good and
informative research on the topic of Software
Development Models.

• After that we want to say thanks to the other researchers

who gave us the chance to get help from their researche
s.
THANK
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