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bottom-up design
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bottom-up design	has definition An approach to design in which you start by designing the low-level details such as the utilities, and then decide how these will be put together to create successively higher-level components, and ultimately the entire system
	has advantage normally useful so that reusable components can be created; these can then be used in several places in the overall system
	is a subtopic of 9.1 - The Process of Design
	is a kind of design
design	determines how components will be implemented in a system
	has goals 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
	has part detailed design
	has part modelling
	has part programming
	has part software architecture^2
	has part systems engineering
	has part user interface design
	requires considerable experience
	see also design^2

Kinds of bottom-up design :

• bottom-up approach to identifying generalizations (4 facts)