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Conceptualizing Software Life Cycle

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Information Systems: Modeling, Development, and Integration (UNISCON 2009)

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A model of the software life cycle shows a software development process that includes all the activities and products required to develop a software system. This paper introduces a new approach to the specifications of the software life cycle, based on artifacts flow. The waterfall model—enhanced with feedback—is used as a sample of this flow-based methodology. Each phase of the development cycle is represented by five stages of the stream of things that flow. The resultant schema is a high-level abstraction of the software life cycle that enhances the specifications for development phases.

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  1. Computer Engineering Department, Kuwait University, P. O. Box 5969, Safat, 13050, Kuwait

    Sabah S. Al-Fedaghi

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  1. University of Western Sydney, NSW 2150, Parramatta, Australia

    Jianhua Yang  & Athula Ginige  & 

  2. University of Klagenfurt, 9020, Klagenfurt, Austria

    Heinrich C. Mayr

  3. Berlin University of Technology, 10587, Berlin, Germany

    Ralf-D. Kutsche

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Al-Fedaghi, S.S. (2009). Conceptualizing Software Life Cycle. In: Yang, J., Ginige, A., Mayr, H.C., Kutsche, RD. (eds) Information Systems: Modeling, Development, and Integration. UNISCON 2009. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 20. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01112-2_45

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