Requirements for Stack Overflow
Understand how to identify and define the core requirements for the Stack Overflow design problem. Learn to capture essential user abilities such as viewing, posting, voting, flagging, and moderation. This lesson helps you establish a clear and organized scope by detailing requirements with unique labels, enabling smoother design and implementation in the OOD interview context.
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In this lesson, we’ll list Stack Overflow’s requirements. This is a crucial step, as requirements define the scope of a problem. Getting them right from the interviewer and understanding them well will make the design of the rest of the system smooth and easy.
We’ll use the notational convention to identify each requirement with a unique label “Rn,” where “R” is short for requirement and “n” is a ...