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Software development process

The methodology used in developing computer software.

Some software development methods:

Top-Down Model
Bottom Up
Waterfall model
Spiral model
Prototyping
Evolutionary prototyping[?]
Iterative and Incremental development
Extreme Programming

Some paradigms for programming software:

Procedural programming
Structured programming
Imperative programming
Declarative programming
Functional programming
Literate programming
Object oriented programming
Concurrent programming
Component-oriented programming

There are also a variety of kinds of software documentation.

See also: project lifecycle.

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