System and Context Boundaries
5 important questions on System and Context Boundaries
What is the System Boundary?
What is the Context Boundary?
What is a grey zone?
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What are the context aspects that initiated/ influenced the definition of the requirements?
- People (stakeholder or groups of stakeholders)
- Systems in operation (technical systems, software and hardware)
- Processes (technical or physical processes, business processes)
- Events (technical or physical)
- Documents (e.g. laws, standards, system documentation)
How to document the system context?
- Use Case diagrams;
- Dataflow diagrams (Sources, Sinks);
- UML (Class diagrams);
- Often a mix of documentation forms is used.
- The system context must be documented precisely in order to be able to derive the pertaining requirements.
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