System development life cycle

Abstract

Following paper is focused on the System Development Life Cycle (SDLC). The terms life cycle and SDLC are defined at the beginning of this paper. Particular phases of SDLC are analyzed in the next part of this paper. Author divided SDLC into six sequential phases. These phases are Identifying problems and planning, Analyzing system needs, Designing the system, Developing and documenting software, Testing the system, Implementing and mainterance.