Software development process

The software development process is the methodology used in developing computer software.

Some software development methods:

• Top-Down Model
• Bottom Up
• Waterfall model
• Spiral model
• Chaos model
• Prototyping
• Evolutionary prototyping
• Iterative and Incremental development
• Extreme Programming

Some paradigms for programming software:

• Procedural programming
• Structured programming
• Imperative programming
• Declarative programming
• Functional programming
• Literate programming
• Object oriented programming
• Concurrent programming
• Component-oriented programming

There are also a variety of kinds of software documentation.

See also: project lifecycle.

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