Incremental Method
What is Incremental Method?
Incremental method is one of the software development methodologies used by many organizations in Sri Lanka as well as in foreign countries. Many organizations adopted the incremental development method to develop their products and services in an effective and efficient manner. The incremental development method has a long procedure. It adds values to the software development process and finally builds up a strong software development which helps to satisfy the requirements of customers. The incremental development model is an evolution of the waterfall model which is a software development methodology incrementally adopted using prototyping. With incremental software development the company’s
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Positive or negative effects can be seen in the last stage of the incremental development method. And it’s also difficult to breakdown the total system at the earlier stage to determine the reasonable increments.
Advantages and disadvantages of the Incremental development method.
Advantages
• It generates working software quickly during the software life cycle.
• The incremental model is more flexible; it will charge less cost to change scope and requirements.
• Very easy to handle, test and operate during the development life cycle.
• It has an opportunity for customers to respond to each and every build; provides flexibility in decision making.
• Delivery cost is less than other software development methodologies.
• Easy to manage the total risk; risk management is incremental.
• Easy to change if there is anything wrong. That is due to smaller percentage of scope.
Disadvantages
• To obtain good results its needed proper planning and designing skills. Lack of skills will lead to gain losses from development of software.
• The total system cost is greater than waterfall methodology.
• Needs very clear definition before starting the division of whole system.
• Total planned testing effort and time will
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• It requires more customer involvement than the other linear approaches.
• Problems may occur due to integration between iteration.
When to use the Incremental model
• This model can be used when the requirements and objectives are clearly understood.
• When new technology is being used.
• When there are high risk opportunities and objectives available in the industry.
• Resources with needed skills, knowledge attitudes are not available.
• The product has quick demand; need to get a product to the market early.
• Major requirements must be clearly defined and
The Software Development Life Cycle is seldom used at my place of work. Unfortunately, recent developments in its use are deemed confidential. Due to this fact, this paper will examine in general terms one of the projects we are undertaking right now while at the same time attempting to maintain our confidentiality.
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1 Distinguish between the concepts “discontinuous change” and “incremental change”. Provide your own examples to support your answer.
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