Improving the Quality of Software Development Process by Introducing a New Methodology–AZ-Model

Quality is the most important factor for software development as it mainly defines customer satisfaction that is directly related to the success of a software project. The software process model is used to ensure software quality, represent a variety of task settings, manage project duration, improve the process and range to execute the process understanding, and to appropriate implicit conjecture for all task settings. Several software processes models exist in software albeit with limited scope. Given this viewpoint, this paper presents a new software development life cycle model, “AZ-Model,” for software development by introducing new activities during software development life cycle. It overcomes the limitations of traditional models and significantly impacts the production of a quality product in a time-box. This paper also presents a comprehensive comparative study and statistical analyses to examine the significance of AZ–Model for software development.

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