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Subject:Re: Kovitz vs Traditional From:"Anthony Markatos" <tonymar -at- hotmail -dot- com> To:Charter -dot- Tara -at- mayo -dot- edu, techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com Date:Fri, 04 Feb 2000 09:27:33 PST
Tony Markatos responds (to below question):
How can you know HOW you are going to do something until you know WHAT it is
that you are going to do? The functional spec states the WHAT, the design
spec states the HOW.
Tara Charter asked:
Kovitz (in Practical Software Requirements) states that the functional
specification is the 'what' and the design specification is the 'how'. I
believe that, traditionally, with step-by-step development, the design spec
was the 'what' and the functional spec was the 'how'.
Although I'm inclined to go Kovitz' way, I'm wondering how you have declared
the 'what' and the 'how' in your endeavors to provide useful documentation.
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