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Application Blueprinting

Application Blueprinting. Planning, Documentation and Design Neil Ross ~ neil@codesweeper.com. About Me. Developing Web Sites and Apps since ’95 Worked for Allaire as CF Instructor and Consultant Bayer, Lockheed, US Gov, State Govs Articles in CFDJ, ‘Inside ColdFusion MX’

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Application Blueprinting

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  1. Application Blueprinting Planning, Documentation and Design Neil Ross ~ neil@codesweeper.com

  2. About Me • Developing Web Sites and Apps since ’95 • Worked for Allaire as CF Instructor and Consultant • Bayer, Lockheed, US Gov, State Govs • Articles in CFDJ, ‘Inside ColdFusion MX’ • Speaker at CF Dev Conf 2000, CFEurope 2003, CFUN03/04 • Freelance application design and devel-opment as Codesweeper • CFDJ Award Winner for PhotoFolio app

  3. Overview • Application Scope and Design • Application Architecture • Detailed Design • Adalon 2.6 • Components • Processes • Functions • ODBC • Documentation • Code Generation • Close

  4. Application Scope and Design • Initial customer interviews and requirements gathering • Understanding the requirements • Estimation of project scope and resources • Initial GUI prototyping • Customer sign off

  5. About Architecture • Every application has one, whether planned or unplanned • Architectural perspectives • Business • Data • Technical • Application

  6. Application Architecture is… • The general overview of site components and screens • A view of major application concepts and modules • Not a detailed account of each element of the finished product • A high-level application development and planning guide

  7. High-level Application Architecture • General overview of screens and process logic paths

  8. Moving Toward Detailed Design • Understand the application architecture • Work with colleagues in other disciplines to pull together the business, data and technology requirements • Dive deeper into the initial high-level diagram and start to look at processes

  9. Detailed Design • Is the in-depth, nitty-gritty and ground zero view of the application, it’s processes and individual elements

  10. To Create a Detailed Design • Understand all architectural perspectives • Identify all business level processes and rules • Identify all system functional and technical requirements • Identify data definitions, structure and rules • Identify technical items (Hardware, Software, RDBMS, Language…)

  11. Adalon 2.6 • E-process design tool from Synthis(www.synthis.com) • Easily create information-rich process diagrams • Capture initial requirements • Build complex application process flows • Import data elements and define rules

  12. Adalon Terminology • CFMX – Skin and Architectural View • Screen – What is rendered in the browser • Components – Everything is CFC based • Functions – Processes that render screens • Includes – Display, Action and Query • Diagrams – Visual representations of application process logic and navigation

  13. Adalon in Action • I should be showing you Adalon, not this slide! And now, on to the conclusion…

  14. In Closing • I’m NEIL ROSS!!! • Understanding architecture helps you to understand the bigger picture in software development • Adalon is a great tool • Questions or comments to: neil@codesweeper.com

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