BS ISO/IEC/IEEE 24765:2017 - Page 2

Systems and software engineering. Vocabulary. | Status: Current, Project Underway

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:

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