Do you need a design or functional specification? It depends on who your audience is and where you are in the product development cycle. People often confuse the purpose and role of functional ...

A project manager or contractor will draw up front-end specifications before the project begins, often as an important part of a tender for the project. Front-end specifications give a clear and ...

A new specification provides performance specifications and methods of testing for security screen products. The Fenestration and Glazing Industry Alliance (FGIA) document pertains to hinged and ...

The standardization organization OASIS has ratified ODF 1.4. The open document format offers some new features for office ...

In 2008, the American Institute of Architects released its first BIM contract document—AIA E202 Building Information Modeling Protocol Exhibit—which outlined five “levels of development” (LOD 100-500) ...

Despite becoming one of the most widely used programming languages on the Web, PHP didn’t have a formal specification—until now. The developers who oversee the language, including engineers from ...

This is the final specification for Release 1 of *SBML Level 3 Version 1 Core*, an electronic model representation format for systems biology.SBML is oriented towards describing biological processes ...

RSS is a Web content syndication format. RSS is a dialect of XML. All RSS files must conform to the XML 1.0 specification, as published on the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) website. A summary of RSS ...

People often confuse the purpose and role of functional specifications and design documents. Design and function should never meet in a document. Design and function must be documented during the ...