IEEE CS Software and Systems Engineering Vocabulary

appraisal participants members of the organizational unit who participate in providing information during an appraisal (ISO/IEC/IEEE 24765:2017 Systems and software engineering-Vocabulary) appraisal findings results of an appraisal that identify the most important issues, problems, or opportunities for process improvement within the appraisal scope (ISO/IEC/IEEE 24765:2017 Systems and software engineeringVocabulary) Note: Appraisal findings are inferences drawn from corroborated objective evidence. apportioned effort an activity where effort is allotted proportionately across certain discrete efforts and not divisible into discrete efforts (A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK(R) Guide) -- Sixth Edition) Note: Apportioned effort is one of three earned value management (EVM) types of activities used to measure work performance. See also: discrete effort applying leads and lags a technique that is used to adjust the amount of time between predecessor and successor activities (A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK(R) Guide) -- Sixth Edition) application-specific requirements requirements specific to an application or requirements not covered in domain requirements (ISO/IEC 26551:2016 Software and systems engineering --Tools and methods for product line requirements engineering, 3.9) Syn: application specific requirements application-specific component component that is developed for a specific member product (ISO/IEC 26553:2018 Information technology-Software and systems engineering- Tools and methods for product line realization, 3.5) application variability model variability model for a particular application including variability binding results, application specifically modified variability and application specifically added variability (ISO/IEC 26558:2017 Software and systems engineering -- Methods and tools for variability modelling in software and systems product line, 3.2) application testing sub-process of application engineering where domain test artefacts are reused to uncover evidence of defects in the application (ISO/IEC 26554:2018 Information technology--Software and systems engineeringTools and methods for product line testing, 3.2) application object component that is directly related to or forms part of an application (ISO/IEC Information technology--Systems and software engineering--Application management, 4.4) application boundary the border between the application and its environment of other applications and users (ISO/IEC 24570:2005 Software engineering -- NESMA functional size measurement method version 2.1 -- Definitions and counting guidelines for the application of Function Point Analysis) AON Activity-on-Node (ISO/IEC/IEEE 24765c:2014) See also: precedence diagramming method annotated topic list (ATL) list of all topics to be included in an information-development project with annotations that can include writer, where used, file name, and additional data (ISO/IEC/IEEE 26511:2018 Systems and software engineering-- Requirements for managers of information for users of systems, software, and services, 3.1.2) alternatives generation a technique used to develop as many potential options as possible in order to identify different approaches to execute and perform the work of the project (A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK(R) Guide) -- Sixth Edition) agreement (2) any document or communication that defines the initial intentions of a project. This can take the form of a contract, memorandum of understanding (MOU), letters of agreement, verbal agreements, email, etc. (A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK(R) Guide) -- Sixth Edition) See also: contract ADT Abstract Data Type (ISO/IEC 19500-2:2012 Information technology --Object Management Group--Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA)--Part 2: Interoperability, 3.3) address (2) to refer to a device or storage location by an identifying number, character, or group of characters (ISO/IEC/IEEE 24765:2017 Systems and software engineering-Vocabulary) activity type classification of activities defined by the execution of the same algorithm (ISO/IEC 14756:1999 Information technology -- Measurement and rating of performance of computer-based software systems, 4.2) activity (1) set of cohesive tasks of a process (ISO/IEC/IEEE 12207:2017 Systems and software engineering-- Software life cycle processes) (ISO/IEC/IEEE 15288:2015 Systems and software engineering--System life cycle processes, 4.1.3) (ISO/IEC/IEEE 24748-1:2018 Systems and software engi