According to Cem Kaner, "The full business, from initial thinking to final use, is called the product's life cycle." A life cycle is the sequence in which a project specifies, prototypes, designs, implements, tests, and maintains a piece of software. Explicit recognition of a life cycle encourages development teams to address development issues at the appropriate time; for example, to establish basic software requirements before design or coding begins. We recommend that developers roughly follow …showed first 75 words of 1028 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1028 total…without the entire project being abandoned. That is why incremental Model provides the approach which practice experience at users during a software process, and also provides the maintenance periodically. Reference: http://www.augustana.ab.ca/~mohrj/courses/2000.winter/csc220/lecture_notes/lifecycle.html http://www.sqatester.com/softwarelife/ http://www.ccsm.ucar.edu/csm/working_groups/Software/dev_guide/dev_guide/node4.html http://www.cc.gatech.edu/classes/cs3302_98_winter/1-08-mgt/sld001.htm