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Prototyping Model

The Prototyping Model in software engineering is utilized when customers are uncertain about project requirements, involving the development of a prototype before or during the analysis phase. It includes steps such as requirement gathering, quick design, and user evaluation, with various types like rapid throwaway and evolutionary prototyping. While it offers advantages like early error detection and flexibility, it also has disadvantages including high costs, poor documentation, and potential customer dissatisfaction with initial prototypes.

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Prototyping Model

The Prototyping Model in software engineering is utilized when customers are uncertain about project requirements, involving the development of a prototype before or during the analysis phase. It includes steps such as requirement gathering, quick design, and user evaluation, with various types like rapid throwaway and evolutionary prototyping. While it offers advantages like early error detection and flexibility, it also has disadvantages including high costs, poor documentation, and potential customer dissatisfaction with initial prototypes.

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Software Engineering

Prototyping Model
• Used when the customers do not know
the exact project requirements
Prototypin • A prototype of the end product is first
g Model – developed
• System is partially implemented before
Software or during the analysis phase

Engineerin • Starts by interviewing the customers


and developing the incomplete high-
g level paper model
• Process continues until the user
approves the prototype
• Step 1: Requirement
Gathering and Analysis
• Step 2: Quick Design
• Step 3: Build a Prototype
Steps of • Step 4: Initial User
Prototypin Evaluation
g Model • Step 5: Refining Prototype
• Step 6: Implement Product
and Maintain
Steps of Prototyping Model
Types of Prototyping Models
• Rapid Throwaway Prototyping

• Evolutionary Prototyping

• Incremental Prototyping

• Extreme Prototyping
Advantages of Prototype Model
• customers get to see the partial product early in the life cycle
• Missing functionalities can be easily figured out.
• Errors can be detected much earlier thereby saving a lot of effort
and cost
• The developed prototype can be reused by the developer for
more complicated projects in the future
• Flexibility in design.
• used to test and validate design decisions
• bridge the gap between technical and non-technical stakeholders
Disadvantages of Prototyping Model
• Costly concerning time as well as money.
• Too much variation in requirements after each evaluation.
• Poor documentation due to continuously changing
requirements
• Difficult for developers to accommodate all changes
demanded by the customer.
• Uncertainty in determining the number of iterations required.
• Customers may demand the product too soon after seeing an
early prototype.
Disadvantages of Prototyping Model
(Contd)
• Customers may lose interest if dissatisfied with the initial
prototype.
• Prototype may not be scalable to meet future needs.
• Prototype may not accurately represent the final product.
• Focus on prototype development may shift away from the
final product.
• Prototype may give a false sense of completion.
• Prototype may not consider technical feasibility and
scalability.
Applications of Prototyping Model
• should be used when the requirements of the product are
not clearly understood
• if requirements are changing quickly
• This model can be successfully used for developing user
interfaces, high-technology software-intensive systems, and
systems with complex algorithms and interfaces..
• very good choice to demonstrate the technical feasibility of
the product

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