functional specs

[Former Member]

hi gurus

in what way the functional specs 'll be given 2 abapers?

andvace tanx for all sap gurus

suresh

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Dear Suresh,

Functional specification: The Functional Specification is a comprehensive document created after the Software Requirements Document. It provides more details on selected items originally described in the Software Requirements Template. Elsewhre organizations combine these two documents into a single document.

Functional specs is like a templeate document, hence it will be same whether it is AR or AP or CCA. Basically functional specs is a document which explains the requirements with technical details, so that technical consultant or any other person can read and understand what is the background of the report or an extension done in SAP.

The Functional Specification describes the features of the desired functinality. It describes the product's features as seen by the stake holders,and contains the technical information and the data needed for the design and developement.

The functional specs should have the following details:

Background: Information why this report is required and Business process involved in that.

Selection Parameters: This should what fields should be selection fields, which are optional and which are mandatory etc.

Layout of the report: What information is required in the output of the report. This should also indicate the technical names - Table and field names from where the data needs to be fetched.

Detailed Description: This should explain the logic of the report - what calculations needs to be done etc.

The Functional Specification defines what the functionality will be of a particulat area that is to be precise a transaction in SAP terminology.

It also contains the data regarding change history, if any.

Functional Spec is mainly prepared for the purpose of developing the new reports (this happens only when SAP standard report not achieve the client purpose) using the ABAP Program. for ABAPers you need to give the details of the Tables , Fields and the logic how to pick the value and get the report.

Visit the following links:

http://www.sap-img.com/general/what-are-functional-specification-in-sap.htm

http://www.epri.com/eprisoftware/processguide/funcspec.html

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/profile?userid=3486185

Hope this is helpful.

Regards,

Naveen.

[Former Member]

hi suresh,

its one more document which highlights whats the requirement and who are all involved in doing it. As well, the proj manager and the user side manager are also mentioned.

Once the business requirement is finalised and say some technical development is required, we as functinoal consultants tell the same to abapers through a functional spec. Here we mention a pseudo logic, what are the tables/fields involved, how the layout should look like, what is the selection screen like etc details. All this in an effort that the abapers understand it and they prepare a technical document and go ahead.

The basic idea of having spec is that tomorrow incase any further changes are required to this, we need to have a base on why a particular logic was followed etc .

Hope it helps. Pl reward if helpful.

Thanks

Sadhu Kishore