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
