ALSO CALLED: Functional Specs DEFINITION: A functional specification (or sometimes functional specifications) is a formal document used to describe in detail for software developers a product's intended capabilities, appearance, and interactions with users. The functional specification is a kind of guideline and continuing reference
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FUNCTIONAL SPECIFICATIONS DEFINITION (continued): … point as the developers write the programming code. (At least one major product development group used a "Write the manual first" approach. Before the product existed, they wrote the user's guide for a word processing system, then declared that the user's guide was the functional specification. The developers were challenged to create a product that matched what the user's guide described.) Typically, the functional specification for an application program with a series of interactive windows … Functional Specifications definition sponsored by SearchSoftwareQuality.com, powered by WhatIs.com an online computer dictionary
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