Software design plays a vital role in the life of a software engineer. It begins with a problem statement and sets the path for implementing a solution. In this article, I’ll be talking about a typical process that I follow to thoroughly understand a problem and successfully deliver a solution.

Problem Statement

Defining a problem statement is the very first and crucial phase of the development process. These comes from product, leadership, or another engineers. A well defined problem provides a very clear picture of how the system should look like. But often, How well a problem statement is defined, there are a lot of ambiguities and unknowns. To overcome these, we proceed to requirement gathering.