Generic Spec Template
From UG
General Info and Scope
- Prerequisites:
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Scope
Business Needs and Business Requirements
- This section is defined by Business Analyst
- In this section this component/feature is defined from the business standpoint. All important points are listed. It could include some design details if business insists on specific design.
Notes from Systems Architect
- This section is defined by Systems Architect. It is written after #Business Requirements are defined.
- The purpose of this section is to give direction to System Analysts who will write detailed specification.
Preliminary Design / Prototype
- In some cases (component is non standard) we need to do preliminary not so detailed design before detailed final.
- This section does not have to be too detailed or too formalized. We shall not spend too much time on Prototypes - they can change many times.
Detailed Design (Technical Specification)
- This section is defined by Systems Analyst.
- It contains detailed technical design is written after #Business Requirements and #Technical Requirements are defined.
Summary
Objects and Fields
- Normally what gets stored/retrieved from DB
User Interface
Functionality / Use Cases
- This section you could spit into two. But often it is hard to do since often most of functionality is UI related
Special Cases and Misc
- If any exist
Quality Assurance
This section is to be written by QA Engineer or QA Manager or Systems Analyst.
Use Cases
- List all major usual scenarios - from the user standpoint . See Use Case.
- Do not repeat use cases that have been already defined in #User Interface and Functionality section. Instead - link to them.
Test Cases
- List unusual scenarios - things that user most of the time would not do but system must handle well
- Do not list Common Test Cases - link to them
Look And Feel
- This section is to be written / defined by Graphic Designer and UI Designer.
- This includes:
- final graphics
- final layout
- Layout defined here should refine, provide more detials to "functional definitions" of UI as defined in #User Interface and Functionality section above
Figures
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Questions
RFC (Ideas for Future Discussion)
Known Non Critical Bugs
Links to Archived / Old specs
History
This doc has been created
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