Structured design

Any disciplined approach to software design that adheres to specified rules based on principles such as modularity, top-down design, and stepwise refinement of data, system structure, and processing steps.

See: data structure centered design, input-processing-output, modular decomposition, object oriented design^?, rapid prototyping, stepwise refinement, structured programming, transaction analysis, transform analysis, graphical software specification/design documents^?, modular software, software engineering.

-- PatrickEgan^? - 18 Dec 2002