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[Former Member]

hi,

how will be the functional spec?can any one give the sample functional spec?what will the contents of the spec?

thanx and regards,

priya

[Former Member]

Hi,

A specification is something like ull be given a set of requirements and also some background info as to what the customer wants and ull have to build a design on it which is completely techinical and then code it.

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regards,

raksha

[Former Member]

Functional spec formats varies from client to client as well as company too.

It will be have having the basic business requirement from which you need to prepare the tech specs.

Regards,

Kiran.

[Former Member]

HI,

To speak at macro level that is at projet manager or at senior levels. The Functional Spec (Specification) which is a comprehensive document is created after the (SRS) Software Requirements Document. It provides more details on selected items originally described in the Software Requirements Template. Elsewhre organizations combine these two documents into a single document.

The Functional Specification describes the features of the desired functinality.. It describes the product's features as seen by the stake holders,and contains the technical information and the data needed for the design and developement.

The Functional Specification defines what the functionality will be of a particulat area that is to be precise a transaction in SAP terminology.

The Functional Specification document to create a detailed design document that explains in detail how the software will be designed and developed.

The functional specification translates the Software Requirements template into a technical description which

a) Ensures that the product feature requirements are correctly understood before moving into the next step, that is detchnical developement process.

b) Clearly and unambiguously provides all the information necessary for the technical consultants to develop the objects.

At the consultant level the functional spects are preapred by functinal consultants on any functionality for the purpose of getting the same functinality designed by the technical pepole as most of the times the functionalities according to the requirements of the clients are not available on ready made basis.

rgds,

bharat.

[Former Member]

this is some detials about a FS

A functional spec should theoriically mean that the ABAPer should be able to take the design document you have prepared, go and sit in a dark corner of the office and build the whole report..... this rarely if ever happens, but I think thats the theory.

When you write a functional spec, you are meant to be turning the clients requirements into a design document that a techo can then build from.

Some of the things you may want to think about are:

Report logic - What information is the report trying to get, what logical links are required to link the data together - like master data and payroll data, and org mgt data, and how should this be linked, an important bit to remember here is the time selection, do you want all the data in the system, or only the data relevant on the day, or over a month etc.

Selection screen - What fields are required as selection options

Authorisations - Should the report check the 'runners' authorisations and tailor the output accordingly

Output - What fields are required to be output, in what order, in what file type, for example this could be a text file, or just out to the screen of the runner.

Error handling - What should the report do when it encounters a problem eg what scenarios would constitue errors - what should happen etc.

Test mode - does the report require running in test mode prior to a file being produced?

hope this is helpful

thnkx

bhanu