design-document

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Design document writing conventions. Use when writing or reviewing technical design documents.

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Design Document Conventions

1. Background / Problem Statement

1.1 Background and Pain Points

Describe current system/module limitations and deficiencies
List specific scenarios, metrics, or incident cases that triggered this design

1.2 Impact Scope

Affected modules, microservices, APIs, data stores, third-party dependencies
Potential impact on performance, reliability, cost, maintainability
Forward/backward compatibility analysis

1.3 Constraints

Compliance/security/performance/resource restrictions
External system or infrastructure dependencies

2. Design Goals

2.1 Functional Goals

List Must/Should/Could core capabilities by priority

2.2 Non-Functional Goals

Performance (throughput, latency, concurrency, resource usage)
Scalability, maintainability, testability, observability
Reliability (fault tolerance, HA, degradation, rollback strategies)

2.3 Constraint Goals

Backward compatibility, API stability
Security and compliance requirements

3. Technical Design

3.1 Architecture Diagram

Use Mermaid for high-level component diagrams with data/control flow

3.2 Detailed Flowcharts

Key business flows, exception flows, retry/compensation with timing and triggers

3.3 Thread/Concurrency Model

Thread lifecycle, inter-thread communication (locks, condition variables, queues, Actor patterns)
Sequence diagrams for concurrency interactions

3.4 Core Classes and Data Structures

Class diagrams showing main classes, interfaces, inheritance/composition relationships
Key data structure fields, lifecycle, thread-safety strategy

3.5 Key Algorithms or Protocols

Pseudocode or flow for pub/sub, load balancing, retry backoff, etc.
State machine / protocol state transition diagrams

3.6 Error Handling and Recovery

Error classification, exception stack, retry strategies, degradation plans
Monitoring metrics, alert trigger conditions and levels

3.7 Deployment and Operations

Configuration items, hot-update mechanisms, canary and rollback strategies
CI/CD, container, Service Mesh, Kubernetes resource considerations

4. Unit Testing

4.1 Test Scope and Goals

Cover core logic, boundary conditions, concurrency scenarios, exception paths

4.2 Test Environment and Tools

Google Test/Mock version, necessary third-party stubs/fakes

4.3 Test Scenarios and Cases

Case ID	Scenario	Input	Expected Output/Behavior	Mock Dependencies
TC-01	Normal single log push	Single valid LogRecord	Returns SUCCESS, buffer size +1	None
TC-02	Buffer full	capacity=N filled	Throws BufferOverflowException	None
TC-03	Concurrent push	Multi-thread simultaneous push	No data loss, order/final consistency matches design	MutexMock
TC-04	flush clears	M items exist, then flush	Returns M items, buffer size=0	TimeProviderMock

4.4 Boundary and Exception Testing

Empty input, invalid input, extreme capacity, network/disk fault injection

4.5 Performance Benchmarking (optional)

Throughput, latency, CPU/Memory profile; comparison with baseline

Notes

Do not include project management info (estimates, schedules, milestones, Gantt charts)
Code examples must follow team C++ coding standards (see skills/project-knowledge/)
Test case naming: <Module>_<Function>_<Number> for CI coverage tracking