Software development process follows the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), which has each step doing a specific activity till the final software is built. The system software development process also follows all the stages of SDLC, which are as follows:
- Preliminary investigation: It determines what problems need to be fixed by the system software being developed and what would be the better way of solving those problems.
- System analysis: It investigates the problem on a large scale and gathers all the information. It identifies the execution environment and interfaces required by the software to be built.
- System design: This is concerned with designing the blueprint of system software that specifies how the system software looks like and how it will perform.
- System tool acquisition: It decides and works around the software tools to develop the functionalities of the system software.
- Implementation: It builds the software using the software tools with all the functionality, interfaces, and support for the execution. This may be very specific as the system software adheres to the architecture. Operating system support is sought for allocations and other related matters.
- System maintenance: Once the system software is ready, it is installed and used. The maintenance includes timely updating software what is already installed.
