Systems Design - Systems Design: Topics

Systems Design: Topics

• Requirements analysis - analyzes the needs of the end users or customers

• Benchmarking — is an effort to evaluate how current systems perform

• Systems architecture - creates a blueprint for the design with the necessary specifications for the hardware, software, people and data resources. In many cases, multiple architectures are evaluated before one is selected.

• Design — designers will produce one or more 'models' of what they see a system eventually looking like, with ideas from the analysis section either used or discarded. A document will be produced with a description of the system, but nothing is specific — they might say 'touchscreen' or 'GUI operating system', but not mention any specific brands;

• Computer programming and debugging in the software world, or detailed design in the consumer, enterprise or commercial world - specifies the final system components.

• System testing - evaluates the system's actual functionality in relation to expected or intended functionality, including all integration aspects.