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Software Quality Journal, 6(4), December 1997, 295-309 Iterative Design and Testing within the Software Development Life Cycle * Bor-Yuan Tsai , Simon Stobart, Norman Parrington and Barrie Thompson School of Computing and Information Systems, University of Sunderland, St. Peter’s Way, Sunderland. SR6 0DD +44 191 5153201 E-mail: {cs0byt, cs0sst, cs0npa}@isis.sunderland.ac.uk *Also of Department of Information Management, Tamsui Oxford University College 32 Jen-Lee Street, Taipei County 251 Taiwan, R. O. C. E-mail: david@.tw Abstract The activity of testing begins during system development and spans all subsequent phases. Some system development life cycles describe testing which is performed after the coding phase, but this may cause the software to be delivered without sufficiently testing. In this paper, we present a software system development life cycle model, called the Test design Stages Processed model (TSP model), in which we emphasise that iterative test design stages should be processed during each phase of the software development life cycle. Therefore, when a phase has been completed, the testing for the phase should also be completed at that time. Furthermore, within this paper we have added unit, integration and system testing processes into Booch’s micro design process to generate a new design and test model. This shows the process of iterative and