Appendix F: Sample Outline of Software Detailed Design Specification

1	Introduction
1.1	Purpose
1.2	Scope
1.3	Definitions and Acronyms
2	References
3	Detailed Decomposition Descriptions
3.1	Module Decomposition
3.1.1	Module 1 Description
3.1.n	Module n Description
3.2	Concurrent Process Decomposition
3.2.1	Process 1 Description
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3.2.m	Process m Description
3.3	Data Decomposition
3.3.1	Data Entity 1 Description
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3.3.p	Data Entity p Description
4	Dependency Descriptions
4.1	Intermodule Dependencies
4.2	Interprocess Dependencies
4.3	Data Dependencies
5	Module Interface Descriptions
5.1	Module 1 Interfaces
5.1.1	User Interfaces
5.1.2	Hardware Interfaces
5.1.3	Software Interfaces
5.1.4	Communications Interfaces
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5.n	Module n interfaces
6	Process Interfaces
6.1	Process 1 Interfaces
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6.m	Process m Interfaces
7	Detailed Design
7.1	Module Detailed Design
7.1.1	Module 1 Detail
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7.1.n	Module n Detail
7.2	Data Detailed Design
7.2.1	Data Entity 1 Detail
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7.2.p	Data Entity p Detail

^[1]Adapted from IEEE Standard 1016-1987.