What are the Software Development Life Cycle SDLC Model and its phases?

The Short Name of Software Development Life Cycle is (SDLC). SDLC is a process that consists of a series of planned activities to develop the Software Products.        

There are various software development approaches defined and designed which are used during development process of software, these approaches are also referred as "Software Development Process Models"
        
        Following are the most important and popular SDLC models followed in the industry.
        1. Waterfall Model
        2. Iterative Model
        3. Spiral Model
        4. V-Model
        5. Big Bang Model
        
        There are following six phases in every Software development life cycle model.
        1. Requirement gathering and analysis
        2. Design
        3. Implementation or coding
        4. Testing
        5. Deployment
        6. Maintenance

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