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top-down design comparison table

Subject	divide up	require	have goals	see also	has part	is a subtopic of	have advantage	is an instance of	determine
top-down approach to identifying generalizations	a complex class, creating new subclasses	considerable experience	Increasing profit by reducing cost and increasing revenue Ensuring that we actually conform with the requirements, thus solving the customers' problems Accelerating development, which helps reduce short-term costs, and may also ensure the software reaches the market soon enough to effectively compete Increasing qualities such as usability, efficiency, reliability, maintainability, and reusability which can help reduce costs and also increase revenues	design^2	user interface design	5.8 - The Process Of Developing Class Diagrams	gives the system being designed a good structure	top-down design	how components will be implemented in a system

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