Skip to content

Quotes from A spiral model of software development and enhancement — Barry Boehm

1935–2022

← All quotes by Barry Boehm

4 quotes

“Stop the life cycle-I want to get off!”

A spiral model of software development and enhancement (1988)

The Code-and-Fix Model. The basic model used in the earliest days of software development contained two steps

A spiral model of software development and enhancement (1988)

The stagewise and waterfall models. As early as 1956, experience on large software systems such as the Semi-Automated Ground Environment (SAGE) had led to the recognition of these problems and to the development of a stagewise model to address them.

A spiral model of software development and enhancement (1988)

The spiral model presented in this article is one candidate for improving the software process model situation. The major distinguishing feature of the spiral model is that it creates a risk-driven approach to the software process rather than a primarily document-driven or code-driven process. It incorporates many of the strengths of other models and resolves many of their difficulties.

A spiral model of software development and enhancement (1988)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Barry Boehm (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.