Quan Zhou

Section O0A

Book: Introduction to System Analysis and Design.

Author: Igor  Hawryzkiewycz

Reference No. T 57.6 H38 199la

Chapter:  Chapter  9

            This chapter described documentation methods. Documentation is necessary to support design methodologies. It keeps track of work completed and makes this work available to all project personnel.

            Documentation also helps analysts to maintain system consistency by storing cross-references between system components. It is up to the analyst to detect any inconsistencies in the model.

            Computer tools can assist analysts even further, by guiding the modeling process and detecting any modeling inconsistencies. Thus the inconsistencies are automatically brought to the analyst’s attention, whereas in the manual case it is up to the analyst to detect them.