A System Context Diagram (SCD) in software engineering and systems engineering is a diagram that represents the Actors outside a system that could interact with that system. This diagram is the highest level view of a system. It is similar to a Block diagram. SCDs show a system, often software-based, as a whole and its inputs and outputs from/to external factors.
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