Software development requires meticulous planning and design. We've learned in this chapter that project development involves the following key steps:
- Requirements gathering and analysis: This includes understanding the domain of the project, discussing and finalizing the features that should be implemented.
- Specification creation: This includes documenting requirements and project functionality.
- Design and test planning: This refers to designing the project starting from the bigger entities down to decomposing each into a separate class with regards to other classes in the project. This step also involves planning how the project will be tested.
- Coding: This step involves writing code that implements the project specified in previous steps.
- Testing and stabilization: This means checking the project against preplanned use cases and scenarios to discover issues and...