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Founded in 1946, the IEEE Computer Society is a professional organization for computing professionals. Based in Washington, DC, it's the largest of IEEE’s 38 societies organized under the IEEE Technical Activities Board. The IEEE Computer Society is dedicated to advancing the theory, practice, and ...
The implicit cost associated with investing money in a certain activity. Making that investment means that the same money cannot be invested elsewhere, where it might earn a higher interest rate.
Industry:Computer; Software
An independent review of source code by a person, team, or tool to verify compliance with software design documentation and programming standards. Correctness and efficiency may also be evaluated.
Industry:Computer; Software
(1) The process of studying user needs to arrive at a definition of system, hardware, or software requirements. (2) The process of studying and refining system, hardware, or software requirements.
Industry:Computer; Software
The part of a use case that describes its alternative implementations. It is also used to describe error conditions, since errors can be considered a kind of alternative. Also called alternate path.
Industry:Computer; Software
A system/software document that defines a work product that has been place under configuration management. Examples are system specifications, requirements specifications, and design specifications.
Industry:Computer; Software
An alteration in the configuration of a hardware/software configuration item or items, delivered, to be delivered, or under development, after formal establishment of its configuration identification.
Industry:Computer; Software
A subjective description of the intended use and application of the system. Software criticality properties may include safety, security, complexity, reliability, performance, or other characteristics.
Industry:Computer; Software
A design methodology used for business applications by basing the design on the logical data structures of the program specification. Examples include the Jackson System Design and Warnier-Orr methods.
Industry:Computer; Software
The person, or persons, for whom the product is intended, and usually (but not necessarily) who decides the requirements. In an engineering project, this is the party that pays for the development work.
Industry:Computer; Software
The internal structure of an activity or process, to include hardware, software, tools, techniques, standards, and facilities needed for development, operation, or maintenance of the activity or process.
Industry:Computer; Software
