The Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)

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What's covered

1. What SDLC Actually Means
2. Why Structured Process Beats Ad-Hoc Coding
3. The Core SDLC Phases, Overview
4. Gathering Requirements
5. Functional vs Non-Functional Requirements
6. User Stories and Acceptance Criteria
7. Feasibility Analysis
8. High-Level Design vs Low-Level Design
9. Writing a Design Document
10. Prototyping
11. Coding Standards and Style Guides
12. Version Control in the SDLC
13. Code Reviews
14. Pair Programming
15. Where Testing Fits in the SDLC
16. Test Levels: Unit, Integration, System, Acceptance
17. Test-Driven Development Basics
18. Deployment Strategies: Blue-Green and Canary
19. Continuous Integration Basics
20. Continuous Delivery vs Continuous Deployment
21. Release Management
22. Types of Maintenance
23. Monitoring Systems in Production
24. Handling a Production Incident
25. Deprecating and Sunsetting Features
26. The Waterfall Model
27. The V-Model
28. The Iterative Model
29. The Spiral Model
30. The Agile Model
31. DevOps as an SDLC Evolution
32. Documentation Throughout the SDLC
33. Compliance and Audit Trails
34. Choosing the Right SDLC Model

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