Part 1 showed how a decision table can express the complex business rules involved in calculating someone’s annual leave entitlement.

The decision table is accurate and easy to read, but here is another way to write the same logic in a decision table. Both methods are directly equivalent and are efficient ways to communicate logic for programmers.

Now see how RapidGen can take this one step further and directly execute the decision table without needing to rewrite any code.

This example decision table prepares invoices for sending to customers.

It shows how a decision table can contain the necessary logic in less than a page.

The equivalent in COBOL or Java would run to a number of pages and be much harder to understand.

Learn the proper way to write a decision table so that the business logic is reliable and accurate.

Watch the video.