1.Planning and Requirement analysis: All business requirements should be defined and risks should be identified.
2.Analyzing/Defining : clearly defines the requirements,such as language and platform through a requirements specification documents.
3.Designing: Specifies hardware and system requirements and helps determining overall architecture.
4.Developing: Work is divided into modules and the actual coding starts.
5.Testing: code is tested against requirements : Unit,Integration,system and user acceptance,certification and authorization.
6.Implements/operate: Install systems in production environment.
7.Maintenance: Continuous monitoring and updates as needed.
System Development Lifecycle
1.Plan
2.Analyze
3.Design
4.Develop
5.Implement
6.Maintain
7.Plan