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Software Process Model — Waterfall Model

  • No phase is complete until the documents for the phase are complete and approved by the Software Quality Assurance group.
  • Each stage generates documents known as deliverables
Advantages
  • Enforced discipline
  • Documentation
  • Products checked
  • Testing at each stage
Disadvantages
  • Document driven - very difficult to read
  • Documents may not be relevant