Pre‐Software Fact Finding Work - tomookay/TOAST GitHub Wiki

As a proper workflow for developing automation software, its only really worth starting when all elements are known upfront.

The best starting point for this style of software is to produce a summation document, which details two main parts;

  • The manual rows directly from the IO listing
  • Building on from the manual rows, the auto sequence that was documented from the project.

Such a plan can be made in excel as shown;

If such a plan cannot be made, then it is likley the detail design work has not yet been completed so that no software can be written