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Granularity is a TW take-off on the Systems Analysis concept of Level Of
Abstraction. (There are other currently "hot" TW terms - such as task
analysis and chunking - that are really just take-offs on long established
Systems Analysis terms.)
Granularity = level of abstraction = level of detail.
A software requirements specification is, in the main, procedural
information to a high level of abstraction (summary level, but accurate).
An end-user manual is, in the main, procedural information to a lower level
of abstraction.
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