The development cycle

To better understand the framework maintenance tasks, we will rely on the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) to partition some of the important milestones of our framework development, such as building features and releasing them for your stakeholders. Our goal is to take the broad themes of SDLC and apply them to our framework projects, focusing on specific examples that will help you build better projects.

Figure 9.1: The software development life cycle

Figure 9.1 shows a simplified diagram of the SDLC, which we can apply to our framework projects. In this book, we have performed these steps in detail, except we need to focus further on the Deployment and Maintenance steps to complete the cycle. We have taken care of the first Analysis step by learning about the organization of other frameworks and planning out each large portion of the Componium full stack framework. We have performed useful examinations of the existing abstractions...