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Documentation is a process concurrent with application development.
The purpose of good documentation process is to establish a knowledge
repository that can facilitate maintenance and enhancement of existing
applications and accelerate development of new applications.
Documentation in SDLC (System Development Life Cycle)
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Development Phases |
Documents |
Authors |
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Requirements Phase |
Business Requirements of the application |
Project Manager |
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Architecture Phase |
Proposed solution and rationality |
Developer |
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Design Phase |
1. Database Documents
1.1 ERD
1.2 Table Summary
1.3 Table description
2. Application Documents
2.1 Logical Data flow Diagram
2.2 Class Diagram
2.3 Interaction Diagram
3. UI Documents |
Developer |
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Implementation Phase |
1. Physical Data flow diagram
2. Process description
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Developer |
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Deployment Phase |
1. Server Configuration
1.1 Database configuration
1.2 Web Server, Application server configuration
2. Deployment Procedure
2.1 Build scripts
2.2 Deployment procedure |
CM, Developer, System Admin, DBA |
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Support Phase |
1. FAQ |
Project Manager, Client Service |
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