Checkpoints:  Design Guidelines

There is a project-wide policy for:

• Mapping the design model to the implementation model
• Specifying the interfaces for subsystems
• Defining the visibility of package contents
• Required documentation for operations
• Required documentation for messages
• Detecting, handling, and reporting faults
• Memory-management
• Software distribution
• Workload distribution
• The granularity of and required documentation for components
• Persistence
• Security
• Transaction management
• Use of implementation language features
• Program structure, organization and documentation (coding standards)
• Hardware interfacing
• Architectural design
• Correct usage of specific implementation mechanisms
• User interface design