Question 32Asked in UGC NET Computer Science, August 2016 (Paper II & III, Selected Questions)

The major shortcoming of waterfall model is :

  1. AThe difficulty in accommodating changes after requirement analysis
  2. BThe difficult in accommodating changes after feasibility analysis
  3. CThe system testing
  4. DThe maintenance of system
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Correct answer: (A) The difficulty in accommodating changes after requirement analysis

Explanation

The main drawback of the waterfall model is the difficulty of accommodating change after the process is under way. (1) Difficult to address change: Inflexible partitioning of the project into distinct stage makes it difficult to respond to changing customer requirements. Therefore, this model is only appropriate when the requirement are well understood and changes will be fairly limited during the design process

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