Procedure Synthesis

This chapter discusses Procedure Synthesis, a task you conduct during procedure definition in Design.

In Design, you use the information discovered during Analysis as the basis for describing an information system (referred to as a business system) that satisfies the needs of the business. The objective of Design is to define the human-to-computer interactions required to perform the business activities defined during Analysis.

In procedure definition, you determine what kinds of procedures are required to implement the elementary processes discovered during Analysis. A procedure defines how business activities will be conducted. In essence, a procedure is the method by which one or more processes are carried out using a specific implementation technique. In a batch processing system, a procedure represents a single batch job.

In an online transaction processing system, a Procedure Step (a subdivision of a procedure) represents a transaction conducted at a single screen.

In a windowed or graphical user interface (GUI) system, a Procedure Step may represent the set of windows and dialog boxes that complete a task. A Procedure Step may also represent a separate client or server application in a client/server environment.