In software engineering, the software development life cycle (SDLC), is a process for planning, creating, testing, and deploying an information system. The systems development life cycle concept applies to a range of hardware and software configurations, as a system can be composed of hardware only, software only, or a combination of both. There are usually six stages in this cycle: requirement analysis, design, development and testing, implementation, documentation, and evaluation.
There are two possible answers to this. The first could be requirements analysis, because the requirement analyst needs to know what the end user needs the software to do. Without the end user, the requirement analyst would need to guess at the requirements. The other could be testing. Without the end user testing the software, he/she/they will have no idea if the software works until he/she/they put it in a production environment.
Yes there are websites that provide information on personal software testing. Some of these websites are 'Software-Testing', 'Wikipedia' and 'Software Testing Fundamentals'.
Important components of Software Engineering are: 1. Software Development Life Cycle(SDLC) 2. Software Quality Assurance 3. Software project Management 4. Software Management 5. Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE)
Software Testing Automation Framework was created in 1998.
Unit testing is to test all the possible logic paths within a software function.