Download or read book A Rational Design Process; how and why to Fake it written by DAVID L. PARNAS Parnas and published by . This book was released on 1985* with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many have sought a software design process that allows a program to be derived systematically from a precise statement of requirements. This paper proposed that, although we wil not succeed in designing a real product in that way, we can produce documentation that makes it appear that the software was designed by such process. We first describe the ideal process, and the documentation that it requires. We then explain why one should attempt to design according to the ideal process and why one should produce the documentation that would have been produced by that process. We describe the contenst of each of the required documents.