Planning is the major and very first stage of software engineer because if you take any platform and framework or any language first you will work on 
Planning (Analysis).
Design (UI & UX).
Development(Coding).
Testing (Unit testing,Integration testing,White Box test ,Block Box test,Smoke test etc.)
Maintenance.
Deployment.
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