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Software Development Lifecycle in 9 minutes!

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Reviewed:: Jan 4, 2021 by Computer Science

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Overview:: This video will cover the SDLC with specific focus on the software quality assurance testing phase. http://www.testaholic.net/understanding-the-software-deve...
Type of Material:: Presentation
Recommended Uses:: It is suitable for self learning and can be used as the overview in a class of software development or software testing
Technical Requirements:: A general browser that can view videos on Youtube.
Identify Major Learning Goals:: As stated in the introduction of the video, this video covers the SDLC with a specific focus on the software quality assurance testing phase.
Target Student Population:: College Upper Division, Graduate School
Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:: No prerequisite knowledge is needed.

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- The video presents the concept of the software development life cycle (SDLC) in a short period of time. It is particularly suitable for a non-technical person to start project management work on software development.

- The content is appropriate and accurate. While textbooks will present SDLC in five stages, it is acceptable to use the seven stages by subdividing the final stage into maintenance, testing, and deployment.

- It uses some easy to understand examples to illustrate the concept, such as login and dashboard. That's good for understanding. Also, some more task-oriented and context related steps in SDLC are also presented.

- In addition to the general SDLC, in the section on testing, it presented the Bud lifecycle as well.

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- Through this short but fast-pacing video, the learner will be able to grasp the main idea of SDLC.

-The animation is very interesting and the viewers would get bored. While it may a bit too fast in pace and the graphics are moving fast too, as it is a video on youtube, the learners can always view it again.

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Slightly long for overview.

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- The learners will be focused on the content by the pointer, or actually the pen as the simulation of writing on a whiteboard is particularly realistic and entertaining.

- Many graphics used in the video to replace the wordy explanation, and they are appropriately used in most cases.

- Some comments on Youtube mentioned that the background music is annoying, but the sound beat really matches with the high-paced presentation.

Other Issues and Comments:: There are many types of software systems that people develop and many ways that they develop it. The assumptions made here are not clarified and someone may go away with some wrong notions of software development.
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