Glossary
- abstraction
The essential characteristics of an entity that distinguish it from all other kinds of entities and thus provide crisply defined boundaries from the viewer's perspective.
- activity
A unit of work that a role performs. An activity may be decomposed into steps. Activities produce or modify artifacts.
- actor
Someone or something outside the system or business that interacts with the system or business.
- architectural baseline
The baseline at the end of the elaboration phase, at which time the foundation structure and behavior of the system are stabilized.
- architectural pattern
A description of an archetypal solution to a recurrent design problem that reflects well-proved design experience.
- architectural view
A view of the system architecture ...
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