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Mason White
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Mason White

M.T. White has been programming since the age of 12. His fascination with robotics flourished when he was a child programming microcontrollers such as Arduinos. M.T. currently holds an undergraduate degree in mathematics, a master's degree in soft ware engineering, and is currently working on an MBA in IT project management. M.T. is currently working as a soft ware developer for a major US defense contractor and is an adjunct CIS instructor at ECPI University. His background mostly stems from the automation industry where he programmed PLCs and HMIs for many different types of applications. M.T. has programmed many different brands of PLCs over the years and has developed HMIs using many different tools.
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Investigating the general steps of the SDLC

We have briefly touched on the steps of the SDLC. However, we have not dived into what they are or what they consist of. This section is dedicated to exploring the steps in the SDLC so we can implement them.

Requirements/planning

If you ask a person off the street or an inexperienced software developer what the most important aspect of developing software is, chances are, they will answer coding. It makes sense since software development is about developing software after all. However, two steps must be completed before you or another developer even thinks about touching a keyboard. The first of which is the requirements/planning phase. Some break this phase into two distinct phases while others simply call this an analysis phase. Regardless of whether you consider this a phase or phases, it is the backbone of the project. In short, without this step, you simply do not have a project. If the SDLC is a building, the requirements/planning...

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Published in: Mar 2023Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781804612880

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Mason White

M.T. White has been programming since the age of 12. His fascination with robotics flourished when he was a child programming microcontrollers such as Arduinos. M.T. currently holds an undergraduate degree in mathematics, a master's degree in soft ware engineering, and is currently working on an MBA in IT project management. M.T. is currently working as a soft ware developer for a major US defense contractor and is an adjunct CIS instructor at ECPI University. His background mostly stems from the automation industry where he programmed PLCs and HMIs for many different types of applications. M.T. has programmed many different brands of PLCs over the years and has developed HMIs using many different tools.
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