Designing the Procedure Logic

Procedure logic design involves taking the outlined system structure and fully detailing its procedure components. The techniques of detailing a procedure and defining procedure logic use the Action Diagramming tool.

The term Procedure Action Diagram refers to both Procedure Action Diagrams and Procedure Step Action Diagrams. For complete information about Action Diagramming, see the Toolset Help.

Note: You will need a working knowledge of analysis techniques. CA provides other guides that describe the tasks, tools and techniques to be used, in particular the Analysis Guide.

You should design the screens, dialog, and procedure logic in parallel. You can then refine your screens and dialogs, perhaps by prototyping. When the initial design is stable, you can complete detailed procedure logic and finalize the screens and dialog flows.

Together, the screen designs, dialog, and procedure logic yield fully detailed displays, a completed dialog flow diagram, and action diagrams that are the basis for generating a completed system.