Supplementary Slides for

Software Engineering:
A Practitioner's Approach, 7/e

Chapter 2
Process Models
Muhammad Imran Saeed
Assistant Professor,
Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering,
International Islamic University, Islamabad

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 Objectives
 The Incremental Process Model
 How it Works
 Example of Incremental Process
 When to Use Incremental Model
 Characteristic of Incremental Model
 Advantages of Incremental Model
 Disadvantages of Incremental Model

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 The Incremental Model
• An incremental development process works
on the basis that work is sliced into pieces
(increments).
• Each increment builds on top of what has
gone before.
• So, fully functioning modules of functionality
are built up over time, with each adding to
what has already been produced.

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 How it Works

increment # n
Co m m u n i c a t i o n
Pla nning
M ode ling
analy s is Co n s t ru c t i o n
des ign
c ode De p l o y m e n t
t es t d e l i v e ry
fe e dba c k

deliv ery of
nt h increment
increment # 2

Co m m u n i c a t i o n
Pla nning
M ode ling
analy s is Co n s t ru c t i o n
des ign c ode De p l o y m e n t
t es t d e l i v e ry
fe e dba c k
deliv ery of
increment # 1 2nd increment

Co m m u n i c a t i o n
Pla nning
M ode ling
analy s is Co n s t ru c t i o n
des ign c ode De p l o y m e n t
t es t d e l i v e ry deliv ery of
fe e dba c k
1st increment

project calendar t ime

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Example of Incremental process

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 Example of Incremental process

How to Develop a Documentation Tool

with Incremental Process Model?

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 When to Use Incremental Model?
• Requirements of the system are clearly
understood
• When demand for an early release of a product
arises
• When software engineering team are not very
well skilled or trained
• When high-risk features and goals are involved
• Such methodology is more in use for web
application and product based companies

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Characteristics of an Incremental Model
Characteristics of an Incremental module
includes

• System development is broken down into many

mini development projects
• Partial systems are successively built to
produce a final total system
• Highest priority requirement is tackled first
• Once the requirement is developed, requirement
for that increment are frozen

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Advantages of Incremental Process

• Helps users get software faster

• Provides ability for the team to evaluate and
re-plan
• May complete an initial functionality to get
buy-in or funding for later increments
• User gets an idea about what is being
developed and provides feedback.

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Disadvantages of Incremental Process

• It requires a good planning designing

• Full working systems may require long
increments
• Rectifying a problem in one unit requires
correction in all the units and consumes a lot
of time
• Integration or Fine tuning is sometime, time
consuming

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 Advice

• Study these Lecture along with prescribed

Book for a better understanding as well as
preparation for Exam.

THANK YOU

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