Contains two glossaries of commonly-used terms. Select each letter for that part of the glossary.
Contains a list of the terminology used in requirements management, systems engineering and V&V (validation and verification), including terms used in model-based systems engineering (MBSE). The definitions of some of these terms are often the subject of debate. These are our definitions. If you disagree with any of them, please contact us to discuss! This list is not exhaustive.
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Cardinality |
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The number of instances of a given object or data entity that logically relates to an instance of another object or entity. Examples are one-to-one, one-to-many, and many-to-many. |
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Change Control Board |
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The group of people responsible for making decisions to accept or reject proposed changes in software requirements. |
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Class |
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A description of a set of objects having common properties and behaviours, which typically correspond to real-world items (persons, places, or things) in the business or problem domain. |
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Class Diagram |
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An analysis model that shows a set of system or problem domain classes and their relationships. |
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Constraint |
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A restriction that is imposed on the choices available to the developer for the design and construction of a product. |
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Context Diagram |
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An analysis model that depicts a system at a high level of abstraction. The context diagram identifies objects outside the system that interact with it, but it shows nothing about the system’s internal structure or behaviour. |
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COTS (Commercial Off-The-Shelf ) Product |
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A software package purchased from a vendor and either used as a self-contained solution to a problem or integrated, customised, and extended to satisfy local customer needs. |
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CRUD Matrix |
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A table that correlates system actions with data entities to show where each data item is created, read, updated, and deleted. |
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Customer |
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A project stakeholder who requests, pays for, selects, specifies, uses, or receives the output generated by a product. |
Contains a list of the principal terminology used in Cradle. This list is not exhaustive.