Q. What are the advantages and disadvantages of SDLC?

Advantages and disadvantage of the SDLC

The following are some of the advantages of the SDLC:

• It enhances control and monitoring of large project.
• It is formed of well detailed step.
• The orderly sequence of development steps and strict controls ensures the adequacy of documentation.
• The design reviews help to ensure the quality, reliability, and maintainability of the developed software or solution.
• The progress and the cost of system development, completion targets are measurable.

These are some of the disadvantages of the SDLC:

• Increases the development time and cost
• Difficulty to estimate the cost of the project
• The performance of the system cannot be tested until it is almost fully coded.
• The system details have to be specified up front
• It increases the amount of documentation as time advances.