3.1.4 System Documentation


Students Learn About:

System documentation

  • representing a system using systems modeling tools, including:
    • IPO diagrams
    • context diagrams
    • data flow diagrams (DFDs)
    • storyboards
    • structure charts
    • system flowcharts
    • data dictionaries
  • algorithms used to document the logic in modules and subroutines
  • test data and expected output 



Students Learn To:



  • differentiate between forms of systems documentation and the purposes for which each is used
  • describe a system by interpreting its diagrammatic representation
  • create a diagrammatic representation for a system using appropriate modeling tools