ISO/IEC 42010 - Terminology

Terminology

ISO/IEC 42010 defines a number of terms:

• architecting: process of conceiving, defining, expressing, documenting, communicating, certifying proper implementation of, maintaining and improving an architecture throughout a system’s life cycle (i.e., "designing")
• architecture: fundamental concepts or properties of a system in its environment embodied in its elements, relationships, and in the principles of its design and evolution
• architecture description (abbreviation 'AD'): work product used to express an architecture
• architecture description language (abbreviation 'ADL'): any form of expression for use in architecture descriptions
• architecture framework: conventions, principles and practices for the description of architectures established within a specific domain of application and/or community of stakeholders
• architecture viewpoint: work product establishing the conventions for the construction, interpretation and use of architecture views to frame specific system concerns
• architecture view: work product expressing the architecture of a system from the perspective of specific system concerns
• concern: interest in a system relevant to one or more of its stakeholders. A concern pertains to any influence on a system in its environment, including developmental, technological, business, operational, organizational, political, economic, legal, regulatory, ecological and social influences.
• model kind: conventions for a type of modeling. An architecture view consists of multiple models, each following one model kind.
• stakeholder : individual, team, organization, or classes thereof, having an interest in a system