Planning and Documentation

The most common weakness of IT projects is planning. Further, poor documentation is evidence of poor planning. This chapter stresses documentation as an effective way to impress your submission's evaluator and earn points. This chapter includes a short example of a software requirements specification.

Visit the IEEE Software Engineering Standards Zone; it is an excellent resource for software engineering standards information (http://standards.ieee.org/software/). You can also find sample documents online at many universities.

You don't have to go document crazy, but applying the industry standard practices to your assignment will surely improve your grade. After you complete a few short documents to serve as your development ...

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