BS ISO/IEC IEEE 24765:2010 - Page 7

Systems and software engineering. Vocabulary. | Status: Superseded, Withdrawn

1 Scope Consistent with ISO vocabulary standards, each technical committee is responsible for standard terminology in its area of specialization. This International Standard provides a common vocabulary applicable to all systems and softwareengineering work falling within the scope of ISO JTC 1/SC 7. 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 application is concerned, a more specific definition might be needed. Terms have been excluded if they were

• • considered to be parochial to one group or organization;
• • company proprietary or trademarked;
• • multi-wordterms whose meaning could be inferred from the definitions of the componentwords;
• • terms whose meaning in the information technology (IT) field could be directly inferred from their common English meaning.

1.1 Relationship of the print and internet-accessible versions

The primary tool for maintaining this vocabulary is a database that is modified in a controlled fashion. Hosted by the IEEE Computer Society, the SEVOCAB (systems and softwareengineering vocabulary) database is publicly accessible at www.computer.org/sevocab. ISO/IEC 24765 is issued periodically as a formal, published International Standard reflecting a "snapshot" of the database. The copyright notice provided with the database permits users to copy definitions from the database as long as the source of the definition is cited. Permitting public use of the definitions in the database is intended to encourage the use of other ISO/IEC JTC 1 and IEEE systems and softwareengineeringstandards.