Publisher's Synopsis
The second edition of this text stresses structural modelling techniques for data flows and processes and shows how these can be integrated into systems design methodologies. It is a thorough introduction to the subject for students of data processing, computing, accounting and management.;The second edition has been thoroughly updated and revised to meet student needs in the 1990s.;Features include: expanded treatment of information gathering/interviewing; updated coverage of combining data flows and data analysis; updated practical design methodologies; an additional chapter on relational analysis integrated with design; work on system analysis and design methods following a linear life cycle; techniques in the same way as used in practice; a discussion of techniques required to model such system components as data flow diagrams, E-R diagrams, process specification at relational analysis.
