Question

I’ve been a programmer for a few years now but want to try and become a better programmer by doing some proper application design instead of just jumping in to coding straight away. I’ve got a new application to create and want to start with this.

I don’t want to go into full design right now but what could I do to show an understanding of the application in roughly 30 mins?

I was thinking of doing a use case to show how I understand how people would use it and then doing a class diagram. What other models can I use?

I’ve had a look at related questions but most of them go into quite a lot of detail and as I said this needs to take about 30 minutes!

Many thanks for your help!

Answer 1

Your 30 minutes plan:

1. Write down all roles (plus very short description) that interact with your application (admin, user, player, developer, …). 10 minutes.
2. Write down the main features (use cases). You can model this later. 5 minutes.
3. Write down the known techniqual requirements/boundaries (programming lang, infrastructure, data bases, etc). 5 minutes.

Finally:

1. Find a sentence that describes your application precisely. 5 minutes.
2. Take a mirror and explain yourself the software you are building right next. 5 minutes.