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| the specific area or domain of the user’s business need or problem that is within the scope of the new system |
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| a technique to identify problem domain objects in which developers work with users in an open group setting |
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| a technique to identify problem domain objects by finding and classifying the nouns in a dialog or description
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| descriptive pieces of information about things or objects |
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| an attribute the value of which uniquely identifies an individual thing or object |
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| an attribute that consists of multiple pieces of information but its best treated in the aggregate |
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| a term in UML that describes a naturally occurring relationship between specific things sometimes called relationship |
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| term that describes a naturally occurring association between specific things sometimes called an association |
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| a measure of the number of links between one object and another object in a relationship |
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| a measure in UML of the number of links between one object and another object in an association |
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| the actual numeric count of the constraints on objects allowed in an association |
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| associations between exactly two distinct types of things |
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| an association between two instances of the same type of thing |
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| an association between exactly three distinct types of things |
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| and association between n distinct types of things |
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| the term used in an ER diagram to describe sets of things or individual things |
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| Entity Relationship diagram(ERD) |
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| A diagram consisting of data entities (ie sets of things) and their relationships |
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| A graphical representation of an individual data entity and its relationship with other individual data entities |
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| A category or classification of a set of objects or things |
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| Classes that describes objects from the problem domain |
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| A diagram consisting of classes (ie sets of objects) and associations among the classes |
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| Domain models class diagram |
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| a class diagram that only includes classes from the problem domain |
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| or camelcase notation when words are concatenated to form a single word and the first letter of each embedded work is capitalized |
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| an association that is also treated as a class: often required in order to capture attributes for the association |
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| Generalization/ specialization relationship |
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| a type of hierarchical relationship in which subordinate classes are subsets of objects of the superior classes and inheritance hierarchy |
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| the superior or more general class in a generalization/specialization relationship |
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| the subordinate or more specialized class in a generalization/specialization relationship |
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| the concept that specialization classes inherit the attributes of the generalization class |
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| A class that describes a category or set of objects but that never includes individual objects or instances |
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| A class that allows individual objects or instances to exist |
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| a relationship between classes in which one class is a part or a component portion of another class |
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| A type of whole-part relationship in which the component parts also exist as individual objects apart from the aggregate |
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| A type of whole-part relationship in which the component parts cannot exist as individual objects apart from the total composition |
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