The software Design Description (SDD) is standard published by IEEE (institutes OF Electrical and electronics Engineers) under (ANSI/IEEE Std 1016-1998), which specifies, how a program Design is to be specified.

Generally

The SDD document is a representation of a software system, which is used, in order to communicate to software Design information. It covers substantial parts of the development requirement (D-requirement). It describes the architecture of the software and/or the overall system and the individual components. A SDD is provided usually only with larger projects, and/or, where the architecture has crucial influence on the software. With smaller projects it is usual to make the Design directly in the D-requirement part of the software requirement Specification (SRS). The description of the Design should not cover any more than 3 sides, otherwise it recommends to provide itself a SDD.

The document should contain the essentially following chapters:

1. Introduction
   1. Design overview
   2. Requirement after full drawability matrix
2. System architecture
   1. Selected architecture
   2. Discussion of alternative architectures
   3. System interfaces description
3. Description of detail of the components
   1. Component n
   2. Component n+1
4. User interface (UI)
5. Additional material (appendix)

Literature

• Eric J. Braude: "“Software engineering at Object Oriented Perspective"”, ISBN 0-471-32208-3

Related links

• IEEE software engineering Collection

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