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If your social circle includes a software developer, you’ve likely heard of the term SDLC, or software development lifecycle, in passing. It is the essential foundation taught to aspiring programmers in their undergraduate classes or even at a coding boot camp.
Software development lifecycle is a framework set in a predefined and cost-effective manner and followed by a software development team to ensure the quality of the software developed isn't compromised. Now, depending on the source of your research, you will find five, six, or seven phases involved in SDLC. The common five are planning, designing, developing, testing, and deployment—with feasibility and maintenance adopted as sixth and seventh depending on the development team.
Even though this framework may seem to apply only to the waterfall methodology with each phase sequentially following the predecessor, it is widely adopted by organizations, small and large, following various other methods, including agile and rapid application development.
As we traverse further into the fourth industrial revolution of cyber-physical systems, where most of our days are spent using various software applications to take care of our day-to-day tasks, these applications must be secure. Long gone are the days when enterprises could afford to think of security in software products as an afterthought and add security-related tests during the QA stage of SDLC to see if the developers have delivered a secure product.
In this digital age where attackers are looking to exploit every vulnerability they come across in an application, it becomes imperative that the product's security is taken into consideration from the beginning, at the planning phase of SDLC, and then again at every other succeeding phase:
As your organization grows, so do your automation requirements, which translates to larger automation development teams. Naturally, it makes sense for your RPA center of excellence to adopt and implement a secure SDLC to ensure the automation developed also meets the highest standards expected of a software development team deploying a product out into the world. It also helps if the platform used to build your automation has built-in safeguards to protect your systems from outside attacks.
SDLC is an essential foundation, so protect that foundation with a robust security strategy. See what Automation Anywhere offers for maximum protection.
Atul Ashok is a technical marketing manager responsible for bringing out and evangelizing the practical power of the Automation Anywhere Digital Workforce platform through demos, presentations, meetups, and compelling content. His expertise and interest span cloud technologies, IoT implementation, and all things innovative.
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