What Is SDLC ? Software development life cycle or software development process is the process used by the industries to produce software which meets the customers expectation with quality assurance, completion within time keeping cost estimates in mind. The process is just like a plan which helps to describe how to develop, maintain, update, upgrade to next version, alter or enhance a software. There are different stages in this cycle: 1. Requirement Analysis 2. Planning 3. Architectural Design 4. Software Design 5. Testing 6. Deployment 1. Planning & Requirement Analysis: This is the most important stage of the SDLC. In this stage inputs gathered from the stakeholders, SMEs & domain experts. After gathering the required information planning begins. Planning about quality assurance & risks associated with the project is also calculated during this stage. After that business analyst & project organizer set up meeting with clients and collect data ...