Applied Structured Systems Analysis

Technical Design Overview

Segment Outline:

• Technical Design consists of methods and modeling structures comprising Structured Systems Design
• Transaction Analysis: A technique for identifying Transaction Types of a system and using them as units of design of the system
• Identify Transaction Types
• Transform Analysis: A strategy for converting the lowest level elements of a Process Model into Structure Charts
• Build Structure Charts to partition systems into a hierarchical organization of modules and the communication between modules
• Structure Charts portray how each task is broken into component program modules required to implement the proposed system
• Explain the Structure Chart concepts of Coupling and Cohesion
• Explain the Structure Chart concepts of Fan-in and Fan-out
• Creating and explaining Structure Charts within the Visible Analyst