Glossary

· Business rule: A statement that defines or constrains some aspect of the business that is intended to assert business structure or influence business behavior.

· Business rule container: A group of business rules used in a project.

· Dictionary: A set of terms used in a project.

· Goal: A high level objective of the business, organization or system, providing a framework for the desired system.

· Goal container: A group of goals defined for a project.

· Property: A characteristic of a Scope element (for example, its priority level).

· Property set: A group of properties used in a project.

· Requirement: A function which must be included in the software or system developed, in order to satisfy a contract, specification, standard or other formally defined constraint.

· Requirement container: The physical grouping of a set of requirements.

· Scope element: A general term referring to requirements, terms, goals and business rules.

· Scope structuring element: A general term referring to requirement containers, dictionaries, goal containers and business rule containers.

· Term: An item of vocabulary identified by a name, which has a clear definition in the context of the system which is to be developed.

· Traceability: A kind of correspondence between different elements represented. Typically, traceability links are used to express which UML model elements represent which requirements or terms.