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The Boehm-Waterfall Methodology

The Boehm-Waterfall software engineering methodology [#!waterfall!#]   is one of the best known example of a software engineering methodology. The Boehm-Waterfall software engineering methodology is composed into the stages of system requirements, software requirements, preliminary and detailed design, implementation, testing, operations, and maintenance. At each stage is a validation step. In the Boehm-Waterfall software engineering methodology, as often quoted and viewed, the process flows from stage to stage like water over a fall. However, in the original description of the Boehm-Waterfall software engineering methodology, there is an interactive backstep between each stage. Thus the Boehm-Waterfall is a combination of a sequential methodology with an interactive backstep. However, in engineering practice, the term waterfall is used as a generic name to any sequential software engineering methodology.

See Figure 4.1 on page [*] from [#!waterfall!#].


  
Figure 4.1: The Boehm-Waterfall Methodology
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Ronald LeRoi Burback
1998-12-14