The formal methods that comprise the structured approach to software development empower students to undertake complex projects, knowing that the developed system will be robust and easily maintained.
The stages described in this topic should not be studied in isolation or in a sequential fashion. Students should be exposed to the content in a cyclic fashion and should recognise each stage during the development of their project(s). It is important that students are able to apply each of the stages in their project(s).
Areas for investigation in their project(s) could include writing scripts or code for modelling and simulation, games, scripted hypermedia products and applicationsThe stages for the software development cycle are as follows:
A brief introduction of the SDLC/SDC
The following is a more detailed view with some example tasks in each step