What Are They, Specifically?
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Specifications are formal documents that form part of the development process, providing internal software documentation. There are many different types of specification (we’ll see them shortly) containing different information and targeted at different audiences. Each one is appropriate to a particular stage of the software construction process, from the conception of a project to its final deliverable. We use them to capture exactly what the user requires (or exactly what they are going to get, if the two differ—they usually do), to detail the architecture of a software solution, the interface of a particular code module, the design ...
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