1 Scope
1.1 General
Consistent with ISOvocabularystandards, each technical committee is responsible for standard terminology in its area of specialization. This document provides a common vocabulary applicable to all systems and softwareengineering work falling within the scope of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 7, Software and systemsengineering, and the IEEEComputer Society Systems and SoftwareEngineeringStandards Committee (IEEE-CS S2ESC).
The scope of each concept defined has been chosen to provide a definition that is suitable for general application. In those circumstances where a restricted applicationis concerned, a more specific definition might be needed.
Terms have been excluded if they were:
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— considered to be parochial to one group or organization;
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— company proprietary or trademarked;
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— multiword terms whose meaning could be inferred from the definitions of the componentwords; and
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— terms whose meaning in the information technology (IT) field could be directly inferred from their common English dictionary meaning.