12th May, 2014
Designing is one of the most important activity for the SDLC and at the same time the least-focused or talked-about activity. Most of the developers are not keen to document the requirements & design of their project and that leads to many issues later on in subsequent phase of SDLC. It also has many side effects like delay in delivery (schedule variance), effort variance, cost variance, more review effort, more defects etc.
Design activity starts when baseline requirements are available. Design serves as the blueprint for the project and laid down the basis for project plan.
There are many different criteria for judging a Design quality including simplicity, efficiency, modularity, abstraction, coupling & cohesion etc.
Following are some of the measurement (metrics) that are used to measure the design quality:
As a developer or project manager you can consider metrics listed above to improve the design quality.
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