El Proceso para el desarrollo de software, también denominado ciclo de vida del desarrollo de software es una estructura aplicada al desarrollo de un producto de software. Hay varios modelos a seguir para el establecimiento de un proceso para el desarrollo de software, cada uno de los cuales describe un enfoque diferente para diferentes actividades que tienen lugar durante el proceso. Algunos autores consideran un modelo de ciclo de vida un término más general que un determinado proceso para el desarrollo de software. Por ejemplo, hay varios procesos de desarrollo de software específicos que se ajustan a un modelo de ciclo de vida de espiral.

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Software development is the process of computer programming, documenting, testing, and bug fixing involved in creating and maintaining applications and frameworks resulting in a software product. Software development is a process of writing and maintaining the source code, but in a broader sense it includes all that is involved between the conception of the desired software through to the final manifestation of the software, sometimes in a planned and structured process. Therefore, software development may include research, new development, prototyping, modification, reuse, re-engineering, maintenance, or any other activities that result in software products. Software can be developed for a variety of purposes, the three most common being to meet specific needs of a specific client/business (the case with custom software), to meet a perceived need of some set of potential users (the case with commercial and open source software), or for personal use (e.g. a scientist may write software to automate a mundane task). Embedded software development, that is, the development of embedded software such as used for controlling consumer products, requires the development process to be integrated with the development of the controlled physical product. System software underlies applications and the programming process itself, and is often developed separately. The need for better quality control of the software development process has given rise to the discipline of software engineering, which aims to apply the systematic approach exemplified in the engineering paradigm to the process of software development. There are many approaches to software project management, known as software development life cycle models, methodologies, processes, or models. The waterfall model is a traditional version, contrasted with the more recent innovation of agile software development.

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