The Waterfall Model
Explore the Waterfall Model to understand its sequential stages—requirements analysis, design, implementation, integration, and maintenance. This lesson helps you grasp how this plan-driven approach works best for extensive projects with multiple developers and detailed documentation, providing a foundation to compare with agile methods.
Introduction #
The waterfall model is the first published model of the software development process, and it consists of representing the fundamental activities of specification, development, validation, and evolution as separate, sequential process phases.
Principle stages
There are multiple stages involved in the waterfall model, and theoretically, every stage must be completed before the next one can be “cascaded” on to, which is why the model is referred to as the waterfall model. ...