Structured Analysis and System Specification

by Tom DeMarco

This classic book of tools and methods for the analyst brings order and precisions to the specification process as it provides guidance and development of a structured specification. Covers functional decomposition; data dictionary; process specification; system modeling; structured analysis for a future system. Suitable for practicing systems analysts.

Genres: Programming, Reference, Software, Design, Computer Science

352 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1978

About the author

Tom DeMarco is the author of fifteen books, including five novels, a collection of short stories and the rest business books. His most recent work is a seemingly jinxed love story, The One-Way Time Traveler.



Before that he wrote Dark Harbor House, and before that Slack and Peopleware and The Deadline.

Reviews

[Vašo · Rating 4 out of 5]

You can really appreciate this book only after having years of experience in designing information systems. Not all parts are relevant nowadays, of course, but the partitioning / data flow diagrams and structured English part are very useful. But you have to understand where and how to apply them (or better to say the concepts) nowadays, hence the need to have the aforementioned experience.

[Denis · Rating 1 out of 5]

I thought this book might be useful but for me after reading half of it I found it hard to grasp. I didn't felt I've learned anything useful either.
Had to drop it.

[Morris · Rating 2 out of 5]

Important intro to large project methodology.

[Alan · Rating 3 out of 5]

It hasn't stood up well to the test of time, but has some moments of excellence - particularly the chapter on estimation.

[Milan]

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