White and black box design
From UG
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Intro
Lets introduce Two types of Design methodology.
White box design
What we follow now in most cases:
- Requirements doc completed
- Sys analyst creates and documents Design based on Requirements doc
- Design goes through review process
- developer codes based on Design doc
- QA tests based on Design doc
Black box design
Alternative approach:
- Requirements doc completed
- Developer codes based on Requirements doc (creating functional Prototype)
- Sys analyst creates and documents Design based on Prototype
- Design and Prototype go through review process
- QA tests based on Design doc