Chapter 5 - Designing the System

    5.1  What is Design?

    5.2  Decomposition and Modularity

    5.3  Architectural Styles and Strategy

    5.4  Issues in Design Creation

    5.5  Characteristics of Good Design

    5.6  Techniques for Improving Design

    5.7  Design Evaluation and Validation

    5.8  Documenting the Design

    5.9  Information System Example

    5.10 Real-Time Example

    5.11 What this Chapter Means for You   

    5.12 What this Chapter Means for Your Development Team

    5.13 What this Chapter Means for Researchers

    5.14 Term Project