Chapter 12

Question 1

Program Development Lifecycle

Answer 1

the process of developing a program set out in five stages: analysis, design, coding, testing and maintenance.

Question 2

Analysis

Answer 2

process of investigation, leading to the specification if what a program is required to do.

Question 3

Design

Answer 3

uses the program specification from the analysis stage to show how the program should be developed.

Question 4

Testing

Answer 4

testing of the program to make sure that it works under all conditions.

Question 5

Maintainance

Answer 5

part of the program development lifecycle the process of making sure that the program continues to work during use.

Question 6

Waterfall method

Answer 6

linear sequential program development lifecycle, in which each stage is completed before the next is begun.

Question 7

Iterative method

Answer 7

simple subset of the requirements is developed, then developed, then expanded or enhanced, with the development cycle being repeated until the full system has been developed.

Question 8

Rapid application development (RAD)

Answer 8

type of PDC where different parts of the requirements are developed in parallel, using prototyping to provide early user prototyping to provide early user involvement in testing.