The basis for successful RE is a common understanding of the terms used. The CPRE Glossary covers the core terms of Requirements Engineering—it is the central reference work across all CPRE modules and levels!
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The CPRE Glossary: An overview of the most important Requirements Engineering terms
Please note that the definitions of terms in the glossaries are deliberately in English only in order to exclude any ambiguities or scope for interpretation that may result from translations.
An addition to a ↑system under development that extends, enhances or refactors ( ↑refactoring ) the existing parts of the ↑system .
In ↑agile development, every ↑iteration produces an increment.
A formal ↑review of a ↑work product by a group of experts according to given criteria, following a defined procedure.
A ↑model describing the interaction between a ↑system and its environment or the interaction of ↑items within a system.
↑Scenarios and ↑use cases , for example, model the interaction between a system and its environment. A ↑sequence diagram , for example, can model the interaction between selected ↑objects within a system.
Synonym: entity, object
Anything which is perceivable or conceivable.
1. In general:
The repetition of something, for example, a procedure, a process or a piece of program code.
2. In agile development:
A ↑timeboxed unit of work in which a development team implements an ↑increment to the ↑system under development.
In agile development, iteration and ↑sprint are frequently used as synonyms.