DO-178B : Structure of Software Process (Video)
Every software process has a predefined steps for inputs, procedures and outputs. The software life-cycle processes include the planning process, the software development and the integral processes.This discusses the transition criteria between life-cycle processes in a generic sense without specifying any particular life-cycle model.
Transition criteria is “the minimum conditions, as defined by the software planning process, to be satisfied to enter a process. These are the mechanisms for knowing when all of the tasks within a process are complete and may be used to allow processes to execute in parallel. Since different development models require different criteria to be satisfied for moving from one step to the next, specific transition criteria are not defined in DO-178B.