Iterative and Incremental Development: A Brief History

  • Authors:
  • Craig Larman;Victor R. Basili

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • Computer
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Although many view iterative and incremental development as a modern practice, its application dates as far back as the mid-1950s. Prominent software-engineering thought leaders from each succeeding decade supported IID practices, and many large projects used them successfully. These practices may have differed in their details, but all had a common theme-- to avoid a single-pass sequential, document-driven, gated-step approach.