A comparative study between iterative waterfall and incremental software development life cycle model for optimizing the resources using computer simulation

To achieve the maximum productivity using minimum resource is the aim of any software industry. Software engineering provides an abstraction process to develop software product. It has introduced various methodologies, principles and concepts. Most of them are the software process models which are also known as software life cycle models. In the software industry different-different types of projects (small, medium, large, complex) arrive in random inter arrival time for development of software products. Before implementing the products, project managers decide an appropriated software process model in documentation that is used in production of products. An empirical study conducted in 2012 that presents various effecting factors for selecting any software life cycle model. One of the important factors is team size. Software industry has a development team which works in co-ordination and depends on each other. Sometimes project managers are not intelligently assigned resources to particular phases of software life cycle model. Therefore to overcome these issues we are simulating iterative waterfall and incremental model to determine optimal resources for every phase of software life cycle model. This study shall enable the project manager to determine optimal resource without implementing software product. As future work, we shall be simulating spiral and iterative incremental model to determine which SDLC model is more appropriate for software industry.