Technical Design Document - Template
Technical Design Document - Template
Introduction
1.1. Purpose
1.2. Scope
1.3. Application Overview
2. System Design
2.1. High Level Design
2.2. Low level design / Component Design
2.3. Architecture
2.3.1. Front end design
2.3.2. Design patterns & techniques for front end
2.3.3. API design
2.3.4. Design patterns & techniques for back end
2.4. Do’s & Don’ts
3. Functional Requirements
3.1. Process flow diagrams
3.2. Use case models
4. Component Design
4.1. Module/Component
4.1.1. Description
4.1.2. Interfaces
4.1.3. Dependencies
4.1.4. API Routes
5. Data Design
5.1. Database design
5.2. Data flow diagram
6. UX Prototypes
6.1. UX prototype flow diagrams
6.2. UX wireframes
7. Security
7.1. Authentication & Authorization
7.2. Data encryption
7.3. Input Validation and Data Sanitization
8. Caching
9. Logging and Monitoring
10.Integrations
10.1. External API integration
10.2. APIs including methods, parameters, and responses
11.Testing Strategy
11.1. Unit Testing
11.2. Integration Testing
11.3. Performance Testing
11.4. Security Testing
12.Deployment and Maintenance
12.1. Code Repo
12.2. Deployment Process
12.3. CI/CD pipelines
13.References