Process Specifications

Posted: August 27th, 2021

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Process Specifications

The process entails maintaining employee files where each record should contain the following data information on employee number, name, and gross pay. Recently, the organization management decided to increase each employee’s pay once certain conditions are met. These include for the payment of USD 900 or less, there is a 20% increase, for pay above USD 900, but up to USD 1900, there is an increase of 15% while for the pay above USD 1,900, there is an increase of 10%. Figure 1 below illustrates these policies using structured English processing and expresses the policies using a decision table to follow full process specifications. The process intends to represent the inputs required to produce the outputs diagrammatically. Thus, in this case, the output is the final decision to either increase or maintain employee pay level based on inputs that include current pay level, name, and employee number.

Process Flow

            Maintaining an Employee File

 

                                                            Programme Specifications

                                                                        Program

Input Requirements

Employee records;

• Employee name,
• Employee number
• Year of employment
• Employee gross pay

Output

• Decision to increase or maintain employee pay.

Process Specification and Logic

Program logic

While employee records left in file do

    read Number, name, gross pay

          if gross pay <= 900

            then increase = gross pay * 0.2

               else if gross pay <= 1,900

                  then increase = gross pay * 0.15

               else increase = gross pay * 0.1

        end if

               gross pay = gross pay + increase

         write number, name, gross pay

End while

Decision Table

While employee records left in do

read number, name, gross pay

         do Table                                                                                             

                Gross pay <= 900                Y         N         N

                 Gross pay <= 1,900            –           Y         N        

Percent                                    20        15        10

        End table

            Gross pay = gross pay .*… (1+percent increase/100)

Write name, number, pay

End while

Decision Tree