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Cambridge (CIE) IGCSE Your notes

Computer Science
Development Life Cycle
Contents
Program Development Life Cycle

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Program Development Life Cycle
Your notes
Analysis
What is the analysis stage of the program development
life cycle?
The analysis stage of the program development life cycle is to precisely understand the
problem the program is intended to solve

What role does abstraction play in the analysis?


Abstraction is the act of removing unimportant details from the problem to focus on
important elements such as:
Core functionality
Requirements
An example of abstraction would be the London underground train route map; travellers
do not need to know the geographical layout of the routes, only that getting on at stop A
will eventually transport you to stop B

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Core functionality
Using abstraction helps to identify the fundamental components of what the program Your notes
is going to solve
Before tackling a problem, it needs to be clearly understood by everyone working on it
The overall goal of the solution needs to be agreed as well as any constraints such as
limited resources or requiring a platform specific solution

Requirements
To create a solution, a requirements document is created to define the problem and
break it down into clear, manageable, understandable parts by using abstraction and
decomposition
A requirements document labels each requirement, gives it a description as well as
success criteria which state how we know when the requirement has been achieved

Design
What is the design stage of the program development
life cycle?
The design stage of the program development life cycle involves using techniques to
come up with a blueprint for a solution
Ways the design of a solution to a problem can be presented include:
Structure diagrams
Flowchart
Pseudocode

Coding
What is the coding stage of the program development
life cycle?
Developers begin programming modules in a suitable programming language that
works together to provide an overall solution to the problem
As each developer programs, they perform iterative testing
Iterative testing is where each module is tested and debugged thoroughly to make
sure it interacts correctly with other modules and accepts data without crashing or
causing any errors
Developers may need to retest modules as new modules are created and changed to
make sure they continue to interact correctly and do not cause errors

Testing

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What is the testing stage of the program development
life cycle? Your notes
Once the overall program or set of programs is created, they are run many times using
varying sets of test data
This ensures the program or programs work as intended as outlined in the initial
requirements specification and design and rejects any invalid data that is input
Examples of test data include alphanumeric sequences to test password validation
routines

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