Process

Thunderforce's development process is loosely based on Anthony Lattanze's Architecture-Centric Development Methodology (ACDM), which is popular process framework in the Master of Software Engineering (MSE) program at Carnegie Mellon University and elsewhere. For the development phase, a design-oriented process that refines the architectural modules into detailed design and then code will be used.

1. Requirements elicitation
2. Quality attributes
3. Requirements prioritization and project scope
4. High-level project planning
5. Use cases
6. Notional architecture
7. Experiments
8. Architectural review and refinement
9. Module identification and assignment
10. Integration test creation
11. Detailed module designs
12. Module unit tests
13. Module code
14. Integration tests passing
15. Releases