System Life Cycle

Question 1

Name the 5 stages of the Systems Development Life Cycle.

Answer 1

Analysis
Design
Implementation 
Testing
Evaluation

Question 2

Describe the analysis stage of the Systems Development Life Cycle.

Answer 2

Describe the stages of development of a hardware/software system.

Question 3

Describe the design/implementation stages of the Systems Development Life Cycle.

Answer 3

Specify the method of testing the programmed solution.

Dry run, black box and white box testing

Question 4

Describe the testing stage of the Systems Development Life Cycle.

Answer 4

Specify the selection of test data including normal (typical), boundary and erroneous.
Program the solution as per design.
Test the solution using selected test data.

Question 5

Describe the evaluation stage of the Systems Development Life Cycle.

Answer 5

Reflect on how successful the operational system is.

Question 6

Define a dry run test.

Answer 6

A mental run of a computer program, where the computer programmer examines the source code one step at a time and determines what it will do when it is run.