Metrics Glossary

Common software engineering terms and definitions


	A "ACD" to "Availability"

	B "Base Functional Component (BFC)" to "business process"

	C "CAB" to "constraint"

	C from "constraint" to "cut-over"

	D "data" to "Duration Compression"

	E "Early" to "external system (interfaces)"

	F "Facilitate change GSC" to "Functionality"

	G "Gantt Chart" to "GUI"

	H "Hazard" to "human/user-centred"

	I "IBM CIS & A Guideline 313" to "IVR"

	J

	K "KER" to "KSF"

	L "Labels" to "Loop"

	M "Maintenance Programme" to "Multiple sites GSC"

	N "N-Ary Relationship" to "notation"

	O "object" to "Overall Change Control"

	P "package documentation" to "Program Specification"

	P From "project" to "Purpose of the Count"

	Q "Qualification" to "Quantity (base)"

	R "Random error" to "role"

	S "safety" to "software unit"

	S "software work product" to "systems engineering support environment"

	T "table of contents" to "Triggering event (-type)"

	U "Unadjusted function point count (UFP)" to "users"

	V "validation" to "VOIP"

	W "WAN" to "written procedure"

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